Starting a thread to say: Hey guys and gals, I finally did it! After two years of development and testing, LevelUp™️ roller mounts for the John Deere QA5 are now in production, and available for pre-order here: turfaddict.com/precision-par…

Tip up grinding to get rid of ‘fat ends’ and make a uniform front face thickness on the @SIPGrinders1902 6000

Hey, @JRMTurfProducts - if there’s something in the mfg. process you can change to eliminate the ‘fat ends’ on my 104s, I’d appreciate it…

Next week, 2/19 join the Assistant & Equipment Manager Committee at Oakland Hills for hands on reel grinding education from @HectorsShop. Thank you @JJGUS3376 & @PCuffare for hosting us and to our Industry Partners for helping keep this at $25 with lunch! migcsa.org/content.aspx?page…

John Patterson, CTEM and equipment director at the Atlanta Athletic Club, recognized for Edwin Budding Award at the #GCSAAConference Closing Session: gcmonline.com/course/environ…

Our team @GreenSightAg was thrilled to have @JPsTurf present with us at 2025 @CarolinasTetac Conference. John is an absolute leader in autonomous mower operation & innovation. Our aim was to provide real-life insights into large-scale Automower integration & maintenance.

If you think robotic mowers can help your course, this should be on your radar. @JPsTurf now operates the largest robotic mower fleet in North America. Come learn from one of the best!

It has been quite the journey. The last robot was installed on 18 AAC Riverside today. There is still some fine tuning to be done over the next few days, but we are rounding third. Thank you AAC and @JPsTurf for a real good time.

We’re getting there - one last charging station and we can map 17 & 18…

The deepest socket 🤔

It’s a very hot and humid Christmas morning in Atlanta. @JPsTurf rolled this fan over for the unboxing/assembling unannounced. It’s the little things that make AAC such a great customer.

Getting a golf course prepped for the implementation of a fleet of robots takes thoughtful planning. @GoodeTurf and @GreenSightAg have put together a remarkable design for Riverside AAC, and @JPsTurf is the perfect man to manage the operation! 1 robot down, many to go.

Life just got easier maintaining cutting unit squareness at The JIC thanks to @JPsTurf front roller brackets. Only took a few minutes to use them to align the side plates and then dial in the front roller alignment to the reel. No more headaches with the OEM eccentric’s. #parallelism #CutlineisKing #SIP

For 35 years, @heinz_skip has been pushing to elevate the Equipment Manager position. Winner of the @GCSAA's Edwin Budding award, Skip shares the valuable lessons he’s learned throughout his career. @SIPGrinders1902 Presents: The Daily Grind Episode 4 - Henry “Skip” Heinz, CTEM

JD 260SL Setup Part Two youtu.be/ZZlkVsDw4fM?si=a2mR… via @YouTube

New video posted: JD 260SL Setup Part One youtu.be/r1yqedN_QQ4?si=kvf8… via @YouTube Working on part two tonight!

A project 3 years in the making is finally a reality. Solar panels for energy generation and shaded parking that supply 100% of our electrical needs for our new John Deere fleet of maintenance vehicles & mowers! 🌞🌿

So, I finally got my shtick together and posted a video - more to come soon! youtu.be/XhjCZ98djJ0

Not my photo or idea, but a clever device I observed on another website.

Ever wondered why we started grinding bedknives parallel to the pivot bolts 14 YEARS AGO at @SIPGrinders1902? Grab a🍺& I'll tell you: In 2010, @JPsTurf wanted a "faster, accurate, and repeatable method for mounting bedknives." So, @MarkPilgerSIP designed the Pin Alignment System. Because Mark uses a pallet system in our Ideal 6000 (that he designed in 2008), he can update the pallet to ANYTHING HE WANTS, at any time, without having to change the carriage or the entire grinder. Any update he makes, he also designs to be backward compatible. Anyone can buy the new technology & put it on their older machine. So, it was incredibly easy for Mark to design exactly what John wanted: While it was incredibly fast, Mark & John quickly realized there were a LOT more benefits to this method. Mainly: it allowed the user to grind their front face (the cutline) parallel to the pivot bolts, which also made the cutline parallel to the centerline of the reel (unless the frame was twisted - a topic for another day): Jump to June 12, 2012 and we find Mark at @TheToroCompany in Bloomington, MN. He was checking on the set of SIP grinders they had at headquarters, for Toro U. While there, a Toro engineer mentioned that the TOP FACE of a knife that Mark ground was "out of parallel to the pivot bolts by 6 thou." At the time, Mark's 6000 used what he called a "Bottom Support Pallet." Simply put, it allowed you to grind the top face of your knife parallel to the bottom of the bedbar (a game changer, in 2008). The top face was parallel to the bar, but not to the pivot bolts, like the front face was. SO, for 2 days while he was driving back to Tampa from Minnesota, Mark thought about how & why it made a LOT of sense to grind BOTH FACES parallel to the pivot bolts. 2 months later? The V-Pallet was drawn up. 6 months later and the first one was sold in January 2013: Mark went through a few versions over the next few years: everything was blue, except the machined surfaces; there were holes in the cold-rolled steel blocks, to make it lightweight; and the calibration system was in the front of the support bar, then to the back. On top of all that, he designed a V-Support Upgrade Kit for our old 1000 bedknife grinder - a grinder that hasn't been in production since 2008! Let's say you own a 1000 bedknife grinder from 1998. You can grind parallel to the pivot bolts. Mark once told me, "We don't abandon the old machines, period." By 2019, he had the latest version of the V-Pallet: For 36 years, under @MarkPilgerSIP's ownership, @SIPGrinders1902 has been changing how we look at cutting units. For the past 14 years, by grinding bedknives (AND bedbars) parallel to the pivot bolts, we've completely exposed the cutting unit for what it is: lines and circles. Come see us in Booth 5717 at the @GCSAAConference so we can show you those lines and circles. #CutlineIsKing, baby.