Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

Equipment/Shop Manager at TPC Sawgrass. EMCP Level 2. Go Dawgs & Go Braves! Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Joined October 2012

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Stephen Tucker @StephenTucker7

4 weeks ago

I haven't posted a lot lately and it isn't because I didn't want to, life has just been beyond crazy. Now that things are starting to get on track hopefully, I can do more of these in the future. stephentucker.net/blog/the-futur…

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Tyler Bloom @bloom_golf

2 months ago

Stephen Tucker has been an equipment manager AND a director of agronomy. Most people pick a lane, but he learned both sides of the fence, and it changed how he leads. On this week's #LeadershipontheLinks, Stephen breaks down what it actually takes to get the most out of your equipment manager: visibility with members, a seat at the weekly meeting, and a boss who understands their success is your success. "If that guy isn't successful, you're not going to be." 🎯 Full episode available now at bloomgolfpartners.com/podcast

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Wyatt Harris @truecylinder

2 months ago

Send someone my way! turfnet.com/directory/jobs…

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

2 months ago

@Zachary_turf Nice dude looks good!!

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Wyatt Harris @truecylinder

2 months ago

Looking for some help in here. Please share! careers.gcsaa.org/jobs/22326903/…

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Turf Addict @turfaddict

2 months ago

Well it has finally arrived! Our new waterproof cutting paper now in GREEN is available for order. Thanks to everyone for your patience. turfaddict.com/products/water…

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

3 months ago

@Zachary_turf Noice 🔥

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

3 months ago

@T_AppelEM @SIPGrinders1902 God I miss that…

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

3 months ago

@Zachary_turf 🔥🔥🔥

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Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf

5 months ago

Final day of Member-Guest and the team crushed it. Course is in absolute primo shape. Also my last day at Four Seasons Orlando. Excited for this new journey.

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

5 months ago

@Zachary_turf Bruh…

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Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf

5 months ago

Day 2 of member guest 🔥🔥

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Wyatt Harris @truecylinder

5 months ago

Slightly higher bench height + thicker front faces are giving us a tight surface and lush appearance. 220SLs with smooth roller. No fixed head artifacts anywhere. This level of control would be impractical without our @SIPGrinders1902 machines.

Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf

5 months ago

First day of member guest... @truecylinder doing his thing 🔥🔥

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

5 months ago

@Canadianeh79 @AngusGlenGC @Gr8estShowOnTRF Congrats Kev!

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Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf

6 months ago

Hopefully the last of the cold is done, time to green up and start growing some grass! 🔥🔥

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

6 months ago

@TaytheMechanic 🗑️

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Brad Bailey @bbbailey10

6 months ago

@JPsTurf @JRMTurfProducts Yep, dealing with that on our 102’s as well

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Wyatt Harris @truecylinder

6 months ago

Here's the context missing from the pivot bolt discussion: Loading speed of the 6000. The next knife is in before the stones stop turning. No alignment or touch off of any kind required, no stopping to do the other face. The precision comes for free alongside the speed.

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Mike Rollins @MikeRollinsSIP

6 months ago

If you hear someone say “we created a problem that didn’t exist” or “we’re already hitting the bullseye” show them this poll. At @SIPGrinders1902 we’ll never settle for “good enough.” It goes BEYOND QOC & ACA: it’s “what’d take to get it to cut & WHAT’S IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN IT?” Sure, you can put a new knife on a bedbar w/ a smile or a twist in it, grind the knife touch-touch, get it to cut, send it, & the QOC & ACA look fine. We did that at SIP for 108 years. That’s a Top Fuel Dragster engine. We got it done quickly & back out the door. It did the quarter mile in 3.6 seconds at 343mph - but now we gotta rebuild the block after each run. Cool. Instead, I’m gonna fix the twisted bedbar, make sure the pivot bolts aren’t bent, measure the front face thickness of the knife for uniformity, grind the knife parallel to the pivot bolts, check front face uniformity again, dial in my angles on the knife, grind the reel straight & cylindrical w/in .002”, make sure the rollers are cylindrical & don’t have runout, make sure the roller bearings are solid, make sure the bottom of the rollers are parallel to the bottom of the straight & cylindrical reel, & then make sure the frame isn’t twisted. I’m also going to TRACK all of this & write it down. I just blueprinted my cu & I built a NASCAR engine - to do 210mph for 600 miles. I’m not in the cutting unit game for quarter miles. And you know what? All that work I did in the winter? It SUCKS. It takes TIME. But that’s the price for quality. I don’t want the cutting unit back in here. I’m lazy in the grand scheme of things. I only wanna do this work ONE TIME, UP FRONT. So now, when your fairway mower comes back in on the lift & 2 of the 5 CU’s don’t cut on one side and you just can’t get it without tightening up the knife too much… you decide “Mannnn, I gotta grind ‘em.” or “I’ll just lap ‘em in.” Either way you go: you have to take a good bit of material out of 2 of them because cut was trashed on one side. Sure, you can still get them to cut when you’re done. But that took YOUR TIME & MATERIAL. Both cost money. MY fairway mower goes on the lift at the same time & it’s still cutting beautifully, all the way across, on all 5. It mows for another 2 weeks. Maybe even another month. I’m now eating my ice cream sandwich, attacking my preventative maintenance program & mopping the floor. My point is: grinding parallel & putting in all this work isn’t about QOC & ACA. It never was. It has ALWAYS been about EFFICIENCY. It’s about uniformity & repeatability. It’s about diagnostics - because once you have everything the same: IF anything goes wrong… it sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s about the SECOND grind & the THIRD grind - when the knife comes back in & I barely have to emote any material to get it sharp again. THAT’S the drug. It’s about guys like @chyman_g saving 6 knives & $600 in a season bc his knives are cutting & lasting longer. The uniform carpets on fairways & pool table felts on greens are the icing on the cake of an efficient shop operation. I’ll leave you with one of my favorite lines. A line that I’m now gonna add to Cutline is King: “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”

Mike Rollins @MikeRollinsSIP

6 months ago

📊I'm well aware that this question is relative to operation - i.e. budget, manpower, tools, resources, & overall attitude & culture of the whole team (from top, down). But PERSONALLY - as an Equipment Manager or an Agronomist - which mentality do you gravitate toward?

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Wyatt Harris @truecylinder

6 months ago

Member guest +/- 3 weeks away, getting greens diameters all back within .010 of each other and doing a full parallel bottom grind on our CTI bedknives straight outta the package!!!