From working his life away in a copper tubing mill to getting thrown into the fire at a golf course 45 days before the season kicked off, Scott Brock has had a great career as a golf course technician. Scott emphasizes the importance of understanding agronomic practices and having an open dialogue about those practices and their impact in equipment with the superintendent. In his free time you’ll find Scott bowling strikes with his league and being a grandpa to five awesome grandkids.
Learn more about volunteering with Scott’s team at The KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship here.
Transcript
Trent Manning:
welcome to the reel turf techs podcast for the technician that wants to get reel follow along. As we talk to industry professionals and address hot topics that we all face along the way we’ll learn tips and tricks. I’m your host, Trent. Manning let’s have some Welcome to the Reel turf Techs podcast, episode 46. Today we’re talking to Scott Brock equipment manager at Harbor shores golf course and Benton Harbor, Michigan harbor shores is a public 18 hole facility. Scott is the only technician in his shop and as mainly John deer. Part leased and part purchased. He also has some Toro Southco and Steiner sprinkled in Welcome Scott to the Reel turf Techs podcast. How are you doing today?
Scott Brock:
How are you?
Trent Manning:
I’m doing great. Thank you so much for coming on. There’s going to be a lot of fun. Tell us how you got into the turf industry.
Scott Brock:
Oh, long story short. I was in a copper tubing, metal work in my life away and things weren’t going so great and told my nephew about it. And he approached me and said, Hey, we’re looking for a mechanic. I’m like, dude, I don’t know anything about golf. Although I play golf, but I don’t know anything about the, about reels. And I like that. He goes, you can do it so filled out a resume. Took it in filled out the application got called on for interview and it was two weeks later. I was in the shop and the beginning of March nothing had been done to reels and I was thrown into the fire rebuilding reels and servicing every piece of equipment and 45 days.
Trent Manning:
Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s trial by fire. That’s good stuff. So were you doing mechanic work or maintenance work at the male?
Scott Brock:
No, I was actually just, I’m an operator inspector. My dad was a Jack of all trades, so he was a mechanic. He was a carpenter. He. Anything and everything. And that’s how I was raised to dive in. I’ve been getting my hands greasy since I was about five or six open dad work on cars and lawnmowers and bicycles and whatever else. And it just became something I love to do.
Trent Manning:
Awesome. I think that’s how a lot of us get started just being around it or out of necessity. I know one of my mentors that taught me a lot of what I know about turf equipment that was, I grew up on a farm and they had to work on their own. And if he wanted something to drive, he was going to have to buy a piece of junk and work on it to have a car. And that was just the days we lived in.
Scott Brock:
Exactly how I started my first car. We bought it and fixed it up and been sitting in a field for three years and between oil changes and brakes and all that other stuff around, we got it running. And that became my baby for four years and loved it. But man, it was a lot of work.
Trent Manning:
Yeah. Yeah. Yep. That’s awesome though. Doesn’t that give you more appreciation when you have to put the work in.
Scott Brock:
Most definitely that was a labor of love. And if I wanted to go to school in my own car, I had to make sure it was running and pay for it. And all that stuff. My parents were quite tell me a lot of life lessons.
Trent Manning:
that’s awesome though. And I think it makes you a better man today. That would just be my guess. I’m very thankful for my upbringing and how I was raised by my parents. I can’t think. Walk us through your daily shop.
Scott Brock:
Usually get in ahead of the crew, get equipment set up for the day. There’s normally a schedule put out the day before. So if there’s any changes I’ll consult with the superintendent or the assistants, make sure everything’s correct. Everything’s set up, have a morning meeting. Usually lasts about 10 minutes, gets through on their way out. I follow them out and do all the checks. Through the first loop come back to the shop, get a couple of things rolling and go back out and make a second check to make sure everything’s okay. And then come back in and start whatever the day has scheduled for it. Whether that’s a regular maintenance or somebody boo-boos that happened the day before,
Trent Manning:
You have babies on your course?
Scott Brock:
There for a while was correctly daily.
Trent Manning:
Yeah. The club, I think we all struggle with those same things and some of it could be prevented. Some of it, maybe couldn’t be.
Scott Brock:
I believe some of it was our fault for lack of instruction and follow through. And the other part was after the third time, we probably shouldn’t be. mowing that spot anymore.
Trent Manning:
I’m ever talking to John Broza and he said it was amazing what an operator would do for one leaf of grass. He’s got to get just a little bit closer.
Scott Brock:
Yeah. As far as we’re a drain grates were our big problems And just dipping a two 60 ESL, the corner of it right down the drain. Great. Couldn’t straddle it just, so we want to dip it down in there and just bang up like three blades on one side.
Trent Manning:
Oh, wow. Yep. Fun times. And normally that happens right after you ground the real.
Scott Brock:
Always,
Trent Manning:
I don’t know. That’s Murphy I guess, messing with us. messing with us. Do you relief ground?
Scott Brock:
We have Bernards right now, so I do not my first course I worked at we had a near a 500 Sr, so I have relieved before. Aggressively. So I do believe there’s a spot for it. It’s just a lot harder to do as a Bernard.
Trent Manning:
Yes. Yes. That is a true statement.
Scott Brock:
Now you can get a little bit of relief out of them if you really bring that stone forward and try to cut it back a little bit, but it’s. The sketchy times was a 14 blade.
Trent Manning:
Rad, rad, rad, rad. Tell us something you fabricated
Scott Brock:
let’s see. The last things we fabricated were we had a older cells hole roller that the roller shaft had worn down and was slipping in the bearings. So we had a sleeve that a roller shaft, a little bit to make it fit the new bearings that were actually, the bearings were a little. Different than the old ones and we couldn’t get them to match up correctly. So we had to actually extend them a little bit and get them to come outside. That was bearing. So de LACA, man. Before that we did some 22 B trailer mods, as you probably know, they come with those awesome little ball hitches
Trent Manning:
Yes.
Scott Brock:
and we manufactured some some pen hitches and those arms, those trailers.
Trent Manning:
Nice. Yeah. I got a, what like seven of those trailers and they all have pains.
Scott Brock:
Yes After trying to swap pitches back and forth between machines, I was more than a superintendent wanted to deal with more than I want to deal with everyday trying to pick and choose which current we were going to use for the approaches or collars that day.
Trent Manning:
I think that’s probably one of those things that gets overlooked a little bit too. And it’s something simple, but just having everything set up, ready to go. And so like the pens that I use, they’re half inch pants. And instead of using a hairpin to hold them in, they just have a little tab on the bottom that flips 90 degrees. And I’ve been really happy with those. Cause I remember the days when we were using hairpins and I’d hand out 10 hair pans every morning. I’m like, this is crazy.
Scott Brock:
Yeah, we use linchpins that I started putting chains on the linchpins to the actual ban and they never way somebody was gonna leave it off. It’s gonna dry it grinds from rip the pan off, and then I have to go new pen on. So I’m just about to the point where I’m going to switch all over to those, a little flip pens and say myself, some headaches.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, I’ve been happy and. My knowledge, I don’t think I’ve ever lost a trailer due to somebody not flipping it. And it bounce an eye out or something like that. Now that I remember anyway what’s your favorite tool?
Scott Brock:
My favorite newest tool? not that the time sheet tool, but I have a. The toolbox in the back of my service cart to where I can carry a full load of wrenches, sockets, pliers battery tools, everything in that one box. And I do not have to worry about it getting wet. It is a weatherproof truck box. Let’s see, it was a. Oh, you got me on the spot here. Kinda like I’m Kelly a month like the Montezuma, but it’s an off-brand, it’s like a tool Ben or something like that. I got it off from Amazon. The price was decent. It’s served really well and it has not leaked one drop of water inside the box. So I’m quite happy with that.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, that’s awesome. That’s I know our shop cart. It gets parked in the shop at night, so we pull it out every morning and that’s one of my things I got a little, that’s a little snap on pit box and it’s not. It does. Okay. But it’s not waterproof. So I always have to take the box out, pull the card out, just kind of paint. So that’s, that was a really good idea. I like that.
Scott Brock:
My prison gauge and how to cut gauges and everything inside the box. So no, those get wet because we all know how that phone loves indoor water.
Trent Manning:
Oh yeah. Yep. Yep. For sure. What do you do to relax? Perfect. And your balance,
Scott Brock:
Tuesday nights or bowling night. So I’m on a league from September through mid April, which is a really long. League, but it’s pretty enjoyable to find main team and we just have a ball. Number one, we’re bowling that, and I’ve got five awesome grandkids that keep me really busy when I’m not at bowling.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, that’s right. That’s awesome. Yeah. My, my daddy had to go get my nephew today from pick him up from preschool and I’m ready to have grandkids, not yet, but hopefully one day.
Scott Brock:
Yeah, they are a blast and leasing center back home.
Trent Manning:
Yep. That’s what I’ve always heard. And it was funny to me. So when I had kids and seeing my parents with my kids and especially my dad, because he was pretty hard on me and I needed it, but to see him around my two daughters is like, where was this person when I was growing up? Just totally different.
Scott Brock:
It’s a, it’s the fact that he had to teach you and you have to teach them, but now he can enjoy just the enjoyment of the child instead of having to teach them the rights and wrongs, except when necessary.
Trent Manning:
exactly. Right. What is one of the strangest things you’ve seen?
Scott Brock:
I have about a thousand of them, but there is, I don’t know what it is. Stuff going into bulkers ponds mud pits, everything can happen to me at any given time. But the most recent one we’ve had was just last week. We had a Amazon ban turn onto one of our cart paths and come down a bout a 20 degrees. path
Trent Manning:
Yeah.
Scott Brock:
with a retaining wall on one side and about a 30 foot drop on the other. And here in Michigan, it has snowed and he got lucky to find that one day that there was no ice on that path
Trent Manning:
wow.
Scott Brock:
made his whole way down. But that is probably the most crazy thing I’ve seen. Recently.
Trent Manning:
That’s crazy. What was he thinking? I mean, obviously he wouldn’t make it.
Scott Brock:
GPS turned on the wrong way. He just followed up on.
Trent Manning:
Wow. Okay. This looks around and I’m driving on a golf course in a box, man.
Scott Brock:
Yeah, we actually had somebody sleeping on the 10th hole one morning and I got duty to go wake him up. First I had to make sure he was still with us and then get them off the course.
Trent Manning:
Crazy.
Scott Brock:
It was bunked out in the rough with his bicycle, with backpack and a sleeping bag, right along the side of a major highway.
Trent Manning:
Yeah. I don’t. I saw a tent. I don’t remember the interstate, but it was at an interchange. So two interstates coming together and he had his tan up on a Hilltop there and it was about sunset. So he was having a nice sunset view. So you never know what people are going through though. Never know. What’s one of your pet peeves around the.
Scott Brock:
I think the number one is somebody coming through my shop and spitting.
Trent Manning:
Yes, that’s a very good, yep. That’s a good one.
Scott Brock:
Yeah. Some are previous superintendents and staff would they were in the habit of having to, and it come through. At the drain, maybe not quite in the drain now just finally said, Hey look that’s enough. We can’t, I can’t handle that. I gotta crawl on that floor. Unless they want me to do is scroll around your spit after it’s been sitting there for a couple of days.
Trent Manning:
Nope, no, thanks.
Scott Brock:
Nope. That, and just. Trying to get guys to get machinery clean. That’s a really tough process, especially on some of the fairway mowers to get up on our knees all the way and just trying to get them to get that last little bit that’s on top of the transmission or across member or parent and a little tube in the front behind the front wheels.
Trent Manning:
Have you found any good solutions for getting them to wash equipment better?
Scott Brock:
One of our guys finds a random mud polo and runs the real through the mud puddle. It works is not the best thing in the world, but it does work. But I did come up with a wand. If I can get the guys to use it to where they can reach underneath there, it’s just nothing. But stainless steel. Piece of pipe with a 90 degree on the end, and we took a, just a cap and drilled four or five holes on the top and that’s phrase a pretty good chat up inside. They’re really good for rough mowers.
Trent Manning:
Okay. Yep. On Twitter, I’ve seen several people make those,
Scott Brock:
yeah.
Trent Manning:
yeah. Especially for rough mowers to get up under the decks and stuff. That’s really good idea. Do you have a mentor in the industry? And if so, what’s the most valuable lesson you learned from them?
Scott Brock:
No, as far as mentor, I don’t know if there’s a lot as far as the technician side, but as far as Turf practices in general, I would have to say my previous superintendent Nate Herman, he’s been around quite a while. A lot of big tournaments in his background and he came in and man, he’s gung ho. He wants to really get after it and. I just had to, Hey let’s just calm down a little bit, but he’s taught me a lot more about the agronomic practices and why he does certain things to get certain results. And it’s really helped me understand better what I can do to help him as far as my real setup and trying to get the end result that he wants.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, no, that was great. And I think it’s, they can be misunderstood from our position with top dress and the air vacate and all that kind of stuff. So the better understanding you have of the cultural practices that are happening on the golf course, saying it makes ground in real. Because they might say on any more fun, but at least you understand why you’re doing what you’re doing.
Scott Brock:
Those practices really didn’t bother me a whole lot because I’ve been dealing with him for such a long time already, but it was more getting into fertilizers and fungicide programs. And. The way he would approach feeding the plant at a, almost like spoon-feeding throughout the season. So we’re not building up all these, all the nitrogen we’re trying to use. What’s already available in the soils and keeping things lean and dry and just, and every morning he would ask me, my son. It was to what I thought was going on. And so there, there was a lot of give and take back and forth. So
Trent Manning:
Yeah. Yeah, no, the, I think that’s awesome that he’s coming to you and asking you what you think and I don’t think that happens enough from superintendent mechanic relationships,
Scott Brock:
no.
Trent Manning:
a lot of those guys are more Direct do this, do that. at least that’s been my experience, but just to have open conversation about what’s going on around there, that’s really good. What would be your dream job or opportunity?
Scott Brock:
I’m happy where I’m at right now, but I would eventually like to get in a position where I have at least one or two techs working with me to help advance them in their careers. Not necessarily to make sure I’m getting a break, but more just to let them learn from what I know. And we can collaborate together and come up with. Whether it’s better practices or different practices to do the same job, which is I’m not going to always have the best way to do it. And I’m always willing to listen to somebody to make something better.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, that’s a hundred percent correct. I’m lucky. And I have uh, two guys working with me and I try to ask them all the time how would you do this? Or what do you think about this? And they’re inexperienced, but they still come up with some great ideas. And I kinda hit myself in the head. It’s dang, why didn’t I think of that? But it’s just that it’s a different set of eyes looking at. So.
Scott Brock:
Yeah. exactly. And that’s, what name would tell us every morning? I would rather have 10. I looking at one thing, then my set of eyes looking at it, me telling you what to do. Cause you might see it a different way. You might see something else that I don’t see. We bring it all together and create a master plan.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, that is awesome. That is really good stuff. Say that one more time for the people in the.
Scott Brock:
10 eyes are better than two. You’ve got to rely on other people to see what you can.
Trent Manning:
That’s awesome. That was really, really good. What technician would you like to work with for.
Scott Brock:
That’s a really good question. There’s a lot of great guys out there and where I would like to get better is something in the. Fabricating side. And probably the one guy that comes on top of my head right now is just probably Hector. He is a heck of a fabricator and teacher. So he would probably be somebody that I can sponge a lot of information on from and a week’s time.
Trent Manning:
Oh, yeah. Yep. I know I’ve said it before in the podcast, but I was fortunate enough to work with a blacksmith for almost six months. And the amount of knowledge I’ll learn with fabrication metal work and a lot of the stuff I’ll think about whatever I’m doing, I’m fabricating something today. And I think, where did I learn this? And I learned it from this guy. And it’s just crazy. So looking back on, I’m so thankful that I got to have that experience and this person. He’s been a blacksmith out for whatever 25 years. But beyond that, he’s just a really smart individual home, all kinds of stuff. He was a mechanic before that he worked on the Porsche’s VWs, a lot of German cars and building engines. And he’s a mastermind and one of my great mentor. And that’s great. Hector is something else when it comes to fabricating stuff, one, anything Hector’s just one great individual. And he might had a look intimidating because he’s so big, but he is a big Teddy bear. He is, he’s got a heart of gold and I would do anything for him. And I think most people in this industry would do anything for Hector, just because he’s so humble.
Scott Brock:
Yeah, for sure that some of the things that he does and the way he approaches them or just outstanding. I have picked up a few things from him, just between his videos and Hector shop and just all the little things, but just the way he approaches life is on rail. That’s.
Trent Manning:
I knew he was a very special individual when he took Hector shop on tour and he was traveling around in an RV with, I don’t remember how many kids he had at the time. Seven ish.
Scott Brock:
Way more than I would pack in our RV
Trent Manning:
Yeah. Crazy. And his wife bless her heart. She’s got to have a heart of gold to.
Scott Brock:
for sure.
Trent Manning:
What do you know now? You wish you’d known on day one.
Scott Brock:
No. When I walked in, I had always been a it’s a scheduled regimen type of guy punch in at seven leave at three 30. I found out really quick that was not the case in the golf industry, but I put a lot of time in. Starting out and probably wish I would have dialed back a little bit to spend more time with family, but I wouldn’t probably wouldn’t try it. It pushed me hard and made me learn. And there was a lot of bumps and bruises along the way, but it made me become a better technician because of it. But I would trade a little bit of more family time for. For a little bit less time in the shop.
Trent Manning:
Right now, I think that’s a good point and it might not be a seven to three 30 job every day, but the more days we can make it an eight hour day, the better off we are, or the better off our family is anyway. And us too.
Scott Brock:
Yeah, for sure. Because it can become a bit stressful or overwhelming at times if you really don’t check yourself and make sure you’re okay.
Trent Manning:
Yeah. Yeah. Yep. What are some of the latest tips and tricks you want to share with us? You got any favorites.
Scott Brock:
My biggest tip. If you can manage to get a good working relationship with your superintendent, get him to share that information. From the agronomic side of things and his ideas and have him take your input. It makes doing my job so much easier to have that added input and receiving input from myself. We would take our assistants, the superintendent, myself. I had an assistant. Part-time assistant for a little bit. Every Friday, we would take probably 45 minutes, sit down and go over what the whole next week’s plan was
Trent Manning:
Yup.
Scott Brock:
and just get a roadmap and say, okay, this is what we’re looking at. What do you guys think? Is there anything we should add to it? What should we subtract from this?
Trent Manning:
Yeah.
Scott Brock:
do you think we’re heading in the right direction? Whether it’s Hey, we need to pick up trash along the side of the road a little bit better, or we need to become more efficient setting our equipment in the morning, whatever it entails from a to Z, just have that conversation and try to get your super, to open up to those that practice. It makes our jobs a lot smoother.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, versus waiting till I need it 30 minutes ago.
Scott Brock:
Yes. And I’ve done that a lot and it doesn’t bother me to do it, but I would rather have a little heads up. I’ve become more. Proactive about setting up equipment. I don’t care what it is. I’ll have it all.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, yeah.
Scott Brock:
and just whatever that happens to be, all you do is go okay. Hey I got to put out a blower. It’s gonna take me 10 minutes. If I gotta to take an air fire off and put another one on, it’s going to take 30 minutes, but day-to-day operations. If you can have everything ready and just let your superintendent know that, Hey look, you can depend on me to have all this done, but don’t forget. To let me know in advance cause there may be a hiccup somewhere. And also let your superintendent know if there is something that is not available. If there’s a parts problem, if there is a problem with just the running of the machine. So my brought it in late, Hey, this machine’s not acting right. When you take a little look at it I don’t have time today right now, but I’ll get to it. First thing in the morning, try to give him a heads up and share the information. And he’ll be a lot happier with you and be more willing to share his side of things as well.
Trent Manning:
I’ve told this story I believe before, but I was lucky enough to have a army veteran 21 year retired first. Sergeant Charlie. Awesome individual. And he started working with me as an assistant mechanic. And one thing that I learned from him that he always done every day. If I was there, he would come into the office and tell me if I wasn’t there, he would call me or text me. And he called it a sit rep, situational report for the military people out there. And the other thing, the point was feed the bear. This is what he said. You always gotta be feeding the bear. If you feed the bear, he won’t eat you. So he was constantly giving me information all the time, whether I needed it or not, but I knew he was that, let me know that he was on top of things. So if we do the same thing for our superintendent or our managers or whatever, that, that lets them know we’re on.
Scott Brock:
Exactly. And if things become a little pressured and you feel like it’s getting too much, don’t be afraid to walk up to your supervisor saying, Hey, look what we’re doing right now is becoming a little overwhelming, a little. A little too much to handle. Can we approach this a different way? And don’t feel like it’s going to eat you alive or put your job in jeopardy because most of the time at all. Oh, okay. Hey look. It’s okay. Let’s work through it.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, for sure. Cause a lot of times you get too many plates spinning at one time and you can’t keep the plates spinning and sometimes you need a little help to spend those. So if you just open with them and let them know what you’re feeling and what’s going on more likely, they’re going to help you.
Scott Brock:
Especially if you’re the only one shop and everything is on your shoulders and time is not on your side. And if you are looking at to have one or two people who shop with you it means lean on them a little bit, ask them for a little support, a little help and try to get them to help get that big wheel moving in the right direction.
Trent Manning:
Cause we’re going as a team when you get accomplished a whole lot more. And I try to do that with the guys I got work and with me is do you need help? And that is just always leaning on them. Let them lean on me.
Scott Brock:
Yep. Exactly. No, we can’t do it by ourselves all the time. So we need that little bit of help or they need help.
Trent Manning:
And I’ve always had a huge appreciation for whoever my boss is to see them getting their hands dirty. And it says a lot to me. If you’ll get in a ditch and dig with me versus standing there, propped up on a shovel, telling me how to dig.
Scott Brock:
Yep. All the superintendents I’ve had have been get their hands dirty type of guys. They weren’t ones to sit in the office and dictate what’s going on Walter and rebel line. Share with you or a push mower or a shovel, digging a hole and get it done and just move on to the next.
Trent Manning:
And I say, I want to be working for, and they got your back.
Scott Brock:
Yeah I just really enjoy this industry and the comradery. You’ve done a tremendous job of with the podcast and everything on Twitter and WhatsApp. It’s opened up a lot of avenues for a lot of texts to get together and share ideas. I’ll like that a lot. I’d love to get some of the guys into. Come up and visit my shop to open. If you’re in Michigan stop by, we’re actually hosting the 20, 22 senior PGA championship. And.
Trent Manning:
When is that?
Scott Brock:
I believe that starts May 22nd. That would be the one that practice strong starts and I will run through till a day before Memorial day.
Trent Manning:
You’re going to have any volunteers.
Scott Brock:
We’re actively looking for volunteers for a crew. And if you want to come in and get in the shop or whatever you want to do, they usually need. One person to help check quality of on the other side of that all for us. Cause we have a 500 acres to cover for 18 holes and one guy can not cover
Trent Manning:
That’s a lot.
Scott Brock:
seven and a half miles occurred paths by himself and take care of all our equipment. So having another set of eyes definitely helps.
Trent Manning:
So if somebody listening is interested and volunteering, where do they go?
Scott Brock:
They can contact me on my email. And that’s a tall lowercase, C S Brock B R O C K forty6@gmail.com. And I can get that link to them if they want to volunteer, whether it’s crew or attack anybody we’ll take all sorts of help.
Trent Manning:
Okay, that’d be awesome. And I’m always pushing the volunteering because there’s just so much that you can learn and frantic and Mike and seeing how everybody does stuff a little bit different to accomplish the same goals. I’m huge on volunteered and I want to check my calendar for may.
Scott Brock:
Sure.
Trent Manning:
Because I don’t think I’ve ever been to Michigan before.
Scott Brock:
It is a really. Neat area to be we’re right on the shores of lake Michigan. So three of our holes are actually part of a beach complex. So everything changes from being almost in town to out in the wilderness, to the beach and over by we have a huge environmentally protected area amongst four. So there’s, we have a lot to offer there.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, that’s awesome. Thank you so much for coming on. I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s been a great chat.
Scott Brock:
Yeah, for sure. Thanks for having me on and look forward to seeing somebody, if anybody can make it up, I’m glad to have them.
Trent Manning:
Yeah, that’d be great.
Scott Brock:
Am on Twitter. I believe. Let me see if I wrote that down at CS Brock 46. And then I have my email, which is CS Brock forty6@gmail.com. And I’m also on WhatsApp.
Trent Manning:
All right. Yep. He’s in the WhatsApp group. People, if you want, if you want to join, just let me know. Send me a DM or an email is we have a great group of technicians in there. Everybody’s so positive. And I don’t, it makes my heart warm every time I’m reading through the messages and I don’t interact a whole lot, but I guess I’m always snooping in there and seeing, and I don’t need to interact cause somebody asked a question and before I could even answer it, somebody already answered it. This is crazy.
Scott Brock:
Yeah. Like some of those uh, the the real puzzle questions that come up it makes me think a little bit more, especially when it goes back to Toro equipment. We’re mostly John Deere now. So if I get something Toro, which is what I started on. kind of Takes me back to where I start and make sure I really think about those 31 hundreds and 31 fifties. And God forbid the old 2 23 D fairy mowers.
Trent Manning:
Oh, yeah. Yup.
Scott Brock:
Yup. Those old rickety units. They were great. But man, technology flew by and made those obsolete pretty
Trent Manning:
Yeah. Pretty cool. For sure. Thanks again for being on and I’ll see you in the WhatsApp group.
Scott Brock:
Thank you.
Trent Manning:
Hope you enjoyed hearing from Scott. I was a good chat. We had please go to our episode description for this episode and look for the link to the volunteer form. If you’re interested in going out and helping Scott and his team for the senior PGA championship, I know he had greatly appreciate. And you’ll learn something and it’ll be fun. So if you’re anywhere close by, definitely reach out. I agree with Scott that our buddy Hector of Alaska is, would be a heck of a choice to work with in the shop for a day. Hector is one of the most well-known texts in our industry and for good reason. If you want to hear Hector story from the man himself, check out our interview with him on episode 22 for the new listeners out there, we have over 40 episodes to catch up on something to listen to on your commute, or maybe on your way to San Diego next week, we hope to see you at the GCs, a. Don’t forget to check out the E M education track and the IOM reception, which is on Tuesday night. And if you come to the reception on till you did not make sure to introduce yourself to me, I got a sticker for you, and we’re going to have a heck of a time in San Diego until next week. See you. Bye. thank you so much for listening to the real turf techs podcast. I hope you learned something today. Don’t forget to subscribe. If you have any topics you’d like to discuss, or you’d like to be a guest, find us on Twitter at real turf techs.