The prestigious Real Club de Golf de La Coruña (also known as ‘A Zapateira’) is in North-West Spain.
It is home to a superb 18-hole golf course designed by Philip Mackenzie Ross and built on very undulating terrain. Philip Mackenzie Ross (1890–1974) was a Scottish golf course architect who worked throughout Europe, developing golf courses in France, Spain and Portugal as well as in the UK.
The A Zapateira course offers more than 50 hectares to enjoy the sport of golf, merging open areas with rows of trees and several picturesque lakes. With the passage of time and because of inclement weather, some of the many trees on the golf course have been felled and have deteriorated, creating a problem for players and the course management team alike.
Talleres Turquino, the Cambre-based Authorised Bobcat Dealer for the local area, has provided a new solution to the problem, removing the remains of damaged trees with a powerful Bobcat SG60 stump grinder attachment mounted on a Bobcat S550 skid-steer loader.
“We have been aware of the problem of tree stumps at the golf course - there are thousands of trees that adorn the spectacular A Zapateira golf course, so it is common that every year a few are lost due to storms or changes in hole design. I proposed a demonstration of the stump grinder attachment and the course liked the results so much that they hired the loader and stump grinder for a few days to leave the entire area free of tree stumps," said Ruben Lorente, manager of Talleres Turquino.
There are three easy-to-use Bobcat stump grinder attachments to choose from - the SG30, SG60 and the SGX60. The work group on the attachments is mounted at an angle of 90o to the operator for excellent visibility of the cutting area, giving them the same wide view as a pull-behind stump grinder. The swing cylinder design generates an impressive arc, allowing the operator to cut large stumps without repositioning the attachment.
Rubber deflector shields and screening provide additional operator comfort and protection from wood chips. The unique valve design controls the swing circuit speed to prevent the cutting wheel from stalling in the cut and diverse cutting heights gives better access for a variety of stumps of different sizes.
