Holy crap that's awesome. Someday I hope to be in that same situation that your in with a triplex.

 

Awesome HLG! Those sidewinders look sweet in all the videos I've watched. Welcome to the triplex club, I joined yesterday :mrgreen:

 

Awesome! :thumbsup:

 

Congrats HLG! Its going to be a fun summer with that new toy! I'm excited to see alot of cool season members reel mowing! :thumbsup: What year is it? I thought the heads on the 3100D cut down to .25"?

 

Awesome HLG! Those sidewinders look sweet in all the videos I've watched. Welcome to the triplex gang, I joined yesterday :mrgreen:

congrats! Very nice! That's the same type of machine I was looking into, but the HOC was just too low for me. (And I was really unimpressed with the attention I got from the JD people)

Congrats HLG! Its going to be a fun summer with that new toy! I'm excited to see alot of cool season members reel mowing! :thumbsup: What year is it? I thought the heads on the 3100D cut down to .25"?

2006. Maybe some heads cut that low, but the ones I have I've been told go down to 1" and up to 2 1/2". They left them @ 1 3/4" for me, which is about where I have it right now. I knocked off the dead stuff a week or so back at somewhere a little less than 2".

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I think the Sidewinder is just about perfect for me!

It has <1 year old turf tires, fresh grind, all maintenance like hydraulic system flush and oil change done. The mechanic gave me the manual with all their service notes too. They didn't get the 3rd middle reel ground so they told me to take it off and bring it in for them to touch up. Just a great group of standup guys that actually gave me the time of day THEN some.

The other plus is that this was used only for the trim on greens. It saw use only sporadically throughout the week, not a daily driver. That also means the market for this as a used machine is very small in the golf community, which means I picked it up at a very nice price point. I won't be uncouth and mention specific prices, but it was less than what a lot of brand new zero turns go for retail.

 

looks nice. I was looking at the mower deck version of those but I have to stick with JD green.

 

Congrats! :thumbup:

 

Another Hoosier with a reel mower! Welcome to the club.

 

Very very nice sir! And a very appropriate choice for your application! I have a good bit of seat time in the rotary version of those, comfy!

 

Congrats on the purchase HLG!!! Welcome to the Reel Low club

 

Congratulations HLG. Looks like a well cared for piece of equipment. That Sidewinder option is a great capability IMO.

 

That is awesome, I hope you can take some video of it in operation.

 

That is awesome, I hope you can take some video of it in operation.

+! :thumbup:

 

Took it for a test mow. A few issues. One, there's a really loud squeak coming from low and behind me. Two, after about running for 30 minutes, it cut out several times when going into reverse and turning.

BUT, it cuts well and the stripes are 2X better than my big league striper on the zero turn.

Here is the cut next to my rotary cut from last week. I took maybe 1/4" off. This is cut @ 1 3/4" and we haven't greened up yet either. No altering of photos.


Here are a couple pics of the front. I obviously have work to do keeping straight lines!

 

I wish I had time to mow after work this week. I just check my work calendar and I won't be able to leave on time tomorrow either.

Those wide stripes look really nice.

 

@HoosierLawnGnome

Those lines are straighter than most I attempt to make! You guys mowing already are killing me!

 

Holy moly, that looks awesome! I look forward to the day when I can get a large plot of land reel low.

 

My turf isn't growing yet, I just had to get the new toy out. I thought "hey, I'll just make sure it's all working right and cut one strip...." next thing you know half the yard is cut... then well, you might as well finish what you started.

The really beautiful thing is it took a lot less time and a lot less fuel to cut it too! So now I can probably double stripe it in what I used to cut it.

I can't wait for this yard to green up so I can really lay down some wicked stripes!!!!!

 

Looks good! Can't wait to see when it wakes up.

 

Nice!!!

The sidewinder feature is very cool.

 

Nice!!!

The sidewinder feature is very cool.

It will be VERY handy. The previous owner mowed with a heavy Zero Turn, and consistently mowed the same pattern - there were wheel ruts - felt like offroading when you went cross grain. So, I picked up a light weight ZT and those ruts leveled out over time. My finely-particled soil gets marshy easily. In fact, I can see slight indentations just from the one mow.

Holy moly, that looks awesome! I look forward to the day when I can get a large plot of land reel low.

I wouldn't say I'm reel low yet, but I'd say it's "pretty low"

 

I wouldn't say I'm reel low yet, but I'd say it's "pretty low"

You will be there in no time. I am willing to bet you will be at 1" before the year is up!

I tried spending some time looking up the model year and the cutting head options for your beast. Best I could find were 2 options. A floating head that cuts down to .25" and a fixed head that cuts down to .5". I don't have much knowledge on toro' s but love learning about awesome machines. Do you have any links to the operator manuals?

 

I wouldn't say I'm reel low yet, but I'd say it's "pretty low"

You will be there in no time. I am willing to bet you will be at 1" before the year is up!

I tried spending some time looking up the model year and the cutting head options for your beast. Best I could find were 2 options. A floating head that cuts down to .25" and a fixed head that cuts down to .5". I don't have much knowledge on toro' s but love learning about awesome machines. Do you have any links to the operator manuals?

Even better, I have the original manuals for the reels. They are the 8 blade Reelmasater 2000/3000 Series. The manual I have says 1/2" - 2 5/8".

Honestly for this season, I don't know how much I'll mess with the heads. They require dual point adjustment, so it's not a quick process like a single point to adjust HOC. And, my lawn is in pretty decent shape for flatness, but I haven't done any leveling. Another factor? I have lots of crawdad holes and black walnut trees. I don't want to spend too much time picking up debris and kicking over crawdad holes every time I mow. So, we will see just how low I take it. I do think it can be dropped some just based on the how good it looks after that first cut yesterday.

I'm not much of a mechanic! But, I can adjust the heads, change oil, hydraulic fluid, and keep it greased up. My wife's grandfather was a mower mechanic, and I inherited his shop when he died - I have a garage full of very helpful tools - some I don't even know what are for yet hahahaa.

 

Just came across this thread. That's a super nice machine you got there Hoosier! I can't wait to see what that lawn stripes like when it fully starts growing. It already looks good from the pics you posted so when things start rolling it's going to be great.

 

Nice!!!

The sidewinder feature is very cool.

It will be VERY handy. The previous owner mowed with a heavy Zero Turn, and consistently mowed the same pattern - there were wheel ruts - felt like offroading when you went cross grain. So, I picked up a light weight ZT and those ruts leveled out over time. My finely-particled soil gets marshy easily. In fact, I can see slight indentations just from the one mow.

Interesting about the ruts, do you have any plans to help improve the marshynes of the soil?