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Maintaining bernuda after 2-weeks of rain with no clumping Mowing fescue from 6" to 4" with no thatching

Gary runs his entire sod operation with the next to a wetland, so there’s been times when when we asked Gary what he would say to
help of his farm foreman Jody, who shares we couldn’t mow for 7 or 8 days because it’s anyone considering adding a Warlord to their
in his quest for finding the perfect balance just too wet. Well as the saying goes, when it equipment line-up, he replied: “We use the
between quality and efficiency. Greenfield rains it pours, and this one time we had a client Warlord for so much, it's such a workhorse.
grows several types of both warm and cool who needed a fescue order fulfilled immediately Mine is married to a 75 hp John Deere now,
season grasses, and the resources it was taking after a deluge. I decided to hook up the Warlord and it’s just a bulletproof machine. We use it
to maintain those varieties became a constant and give it a go. The grass had grown to about for burning ribbons out, mowing ditch banks
headache with their previous mowers. “I only 6” since its last mow, so I set the Warlord to 3” instead of a v-ditcher, which allows us to
ran Progressive mowers for years, but I needed and just ran through it. The clipping dispersal harvest right up to the ditch. I mean, we even
something better. The cut quality just wasn’t was perfect. We didn’t have to do anything use it to level washboards after a heavy rain. It’s
there. I had a dedicated 65 hp Kubota with a else to it. I was simply amazed. I mean, to be just so versatile. We’ve had ours for about a year
blower on it, because with that mower, every able to pull it into a field, adjust the top link, now, and we haven’t had to do anything to it but
time you’d go out and mow you had to go out and then literally mow with a flail mower just sharpen the blades twice. Both the Warlord and
and blow,” he recalls. ahead of our cutter is just unheard of! So now my Pegasus have saved me so much time, effort
Fed up with his equipment’s limitations, Gary I use the Warlord to maintain all of our fields and money in just a year. They’re just amazing
started doing some research. He recounts during the rainy season. Fescue, Bermuda, machines. The build quality, the cut quality,
a story from when he was talking to the Zoysia; it does an amazing job at maintaining the thatch dispersal, they’re just unbeatable. I
groundskeepers for the St. Louis Cardinals, all of our varieties. Being able to mow in wet mean, I’ve got pictures and video of one of my
who are good friends of his: “I remember when conditions without losing our cut quality is a fields from before we sold my previous mower.
they told me that their supplier had switched huge advantage for us. We absolutely just love It’s a side by side comparison of my Pegasus
from using a reel mower to a roller mower, and I the Warlord.” and the Progressive, and well…there’s just no
asked them if it was a Pegasus. And one of the After testing the Warlord’s abilities at comparison. I’ve been mowing and maintaining
guys said it was. So we’re laying this grass out maintaining his fields in wet conditions, Gary grass my entire life, and these are the best
on the new field and Billy just couldn’t believe began putting it to use for jobs he never machines I’ve ever seen. Period.”
they were using a roller mower to cut it. I mean, imagined a flail could handle. “I have a 5-acre Gary’s story is one we hear often at Trimax. It is
the cut looked identical to the reel mower grass field that we couldn’t hit with the pivot, a dry a testament to those who, like Gary, refuse to
we were used to seeing. It sold me.” corner basically. Well, we finally got water to sacrifice quality when it comes to their product.
Gary spoke to his Trimax representative Nathan it. And it's bluegrass that was just splotchy It’s the very same determination and drive for
Lykkegaard, and after a demo, he decided and overgrown. I mean, we had completely quit perfection that led to the creation of the very
to go with the Pegasus and Warlord combo. mowing it, so you can imagine. Well, I took the first Trimax mower almost 40 years ago. And
This decision not only led to a major savings Warlord out to it after we ran the water lines, it’s the reason we continue to set the bar in
for the farm in the form of fuel, labor and and I took it down to 1 inch in one pass. The commercial mowing by building our mowers
maintenance, but as Gary would find out, would next day I was planting it. You just can’t ask for without cutting corners.
allow them to deliver product in ways they anything better than that,” he says. Make the next Warlord success story yours,
never imagined. Gary says, “We get a lot of rain As someone who’s run his Warlord through visit us online at www.trimaxmowers.com or
here on the farm in the spring, and we’re right its paces in the year since he purchased it, give us a call at 770 412 8402.
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