Most everyone who has worked on a golf course for any length of time has had to deal with a dreaded four letter word: Leak.
While irrigation leaks aren't any fun, the other kind of leak--hydraulic--can cause long-lasting problems. In an effort to minimize the risk of turf loss due to hydraulic leaks on the putting surfaces, we recently acquired a hybrid riding greensmower. (This was another mower we had ordered in 2023.)
Unlike a traditional triplex mower (which uses hydraulics for steering, driving wheel motors, raising and lowering the cutting units, as well as turning the reels) the new machine has no hydraulics at all. Is this mower 100% risk free? No, it does have a small gasoline engine to power the generator. Of course, so do the walking handmowers we use, and they are considered to be very low risk machines.
As to the price of this machine, there's an old saying, "Whatever you think it costs, add a zero if it's built for golf." So, yes, you could drive this nice looking mower, or you could drive a very well-appointed Audi A6 for the same price.
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