Hi all,
I own a large tournament paintball site in the UK with 5 "fields" all of which are flat grass (and then surrounding areas like carpark (also grass etc) which in total is around 5/6 acres.
This season, we've used a small simplicity regent to cut each field (each field is about half an acre), and had a friend of mine who owns a Diesel Bad boy come to cut the carpark/surrounding areas. In the off season, we're looking to buy something bigger to save on time and give a better finish. We need some element of manoeuvrability (so thinking zero turn) as sometimes we do cut around the "bunkers" we have on the playing fields and around each field we have steel posts/water pipes/netting all to avoid (see pics). Aside from the carpark, it's more a combination of small half acres rather than one big area to go at.
The fields are fairly flat (we are doing more work with rollers etc in the off season to get them even better), but the main factor is cutting our time down on the mower each week and keeping the fields looking great all year. We have access to red diesel, and our budget is around $5k.
Being in the UK we're limited to what we have - Toro, Scab and JD are readily available, but being in the paintball industry, I can get containers over to ship mowers from the US if needed.......then the only problem is sourcing parts if anything goes down.
If anyone has any suggestions it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ainsley
I own a large tournament paintball site in the UK with 5 "fields" all of which are flat grass (and then surrounding areas like carpark (also grass etc) which in total is around 5/6 acres.
This season, we've used a small simplicity regent to cut each field (each field is about half an acre), and had a friend of mine who owns a Diesel Bad boy come to cut the carpark/surrounding areas. In the off season, we're looking to buy something bigger to save on time and give a better finish. We need some element of manoeuvrability (so thinking zero turn) as sometimes we do cut around the "bunkers" we have on the playing fields and around each field we have steel posts/water pipes/netting all to avoid (see pics). Aside from the carpark, it's more a combination of small half acres rather than one big area to go at.
The fields are fairly flat (we are doing more work with rollers etc in the off season to get them even better), but the main factor is cutting our time down on the mower each week and keeping the fields looking great all year. We have access to red diesel, and our budget is around $5k.
Being in the UK we're limited to what we have - Toro, Scab and JD are readily available, but being in the paintball industry, I can get containers over to ship mowers from the US if needed.......then the only problem is sourcing parts if anything goes down.
If anyone has any suggestions it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ainsley