For my 8 acres of grass I mowed for
roughly 175 hours last year.
—Roger Weinbrenner, CSFM, turf technician, University of St. Thomas
My best educated guess is about 520
hours
—Patrick Francisco, facility manager,
Smith River Sports Complex, Martinsville, VA
We have 27 total acres, nine of which
are turfgrass. It takes 6 hours to mow those
nine acres. We mow 1x/week in April and
October, 2x/week in May and September,
and 3x/week June through August, for a
total of 468 hours a season on the turfgrass. For the non-turfgrass acreage, it is
48 hours total in July, August and November; 96 hours total in March, June, September and October; and 192 hours total
in April and May, for a grand total of 912
hours.
—Wayne Treadway, director, Dandridge
(TN) Parks & Rec
990 hours
—Mark Kubacki, superintendent/grounds,
Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
November through February we average
50-60 hours a month for the sports fields
and common grounds. In
March through October we average 80-90
hours a month because everything is growing
more and rain is more readily available.
—Vince Muia, head groundskeeper, Out
of Door Academy, Statham, GA n
I personally mow an average of 90 hours
a year. As a team we mow an average 3 days
a week 6 hours per day for 9 months, that is
648 hours.
—Sam Burris, athletic field supervisor,
University of Mary Washington
For a rough "guesstimate" it seems I
spend about 780 hours on the mower here
at Valley Ranch. I can't believe I spend the
equivalent of almost 20 work weeks on a
mower.
—Chris Morrow, field supervisor, Dallas
Cowboys practice facility
It looks like I spent about 735 hours
mowing in 2012. This includes mowing
the baseball and softball fields three times
per week, and starting their mowing a couple weeks earlier than the rest of the complex, mowing the practice field twice a
week, and mowing the non-field areas
once a week.
—Kari Allen, CSFM, sports turf technician, Sodexho/Benedictine University
We roughly spend from April 1 to October 15 mowing about 30-36 hours a week,
equaling 840-1,008 hours mowing. I have
two part time seasonal workers that do
most of the mowing weekly; I am involved
about 8 hours a week.
—Dave Reiss, turf manager, Wasatch
(UT) SD
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