Noisy site tractors & mowers

I have some sympathy as our recent three days at a Club site had the drone of tractors/mowing every morning. The trouble is that these are essential duties for site staff in order to keep sites looking good. I wonder if the reason the Club seem to be sticking, for the moment, with ICE tractors is that they may be more versatile than electric vehicles? It would be interesting to have an update from the Club to see their thinking on this subject.

David

A fair bit of the noise is not the engine but the cutting mechanism.  Could we all put up with sheep dropping though?

Perhaps the machinery will be replaced by electric versions over time when the present gear has had its day but I suspect it would be a very expensive venture to replace all the equipment in one fell swoop, even assuming suitable electric versions are available.

The purchase of expensive equipment could reflect in site fees so it's as well to be careful what you wish for.

Every now and again people post on here about the grass being too long and the bins not being emptied regularly and then people post about tractors and mowers being out too much. Personally I like a tidy site and see the need for jobs to be done and don't mind the noise.

As to whether the club should be changing to electric tractors and mowers that is a question for the club to answer and maybe they are when things need replacing and might cost too much given the lost income in the last two years for it to be done all at once?

But I've just looked into a battery powered mower and they are generally more expensive and have about 20 to 30 minutes cutting time and not as powerful. 

This subject has been raised before but no answers as yet.

The club did a small experiment with battery mowers and some hand tools but did not proceed with any purchases, perhaps they should try again as there are many companies now doing the above items, but again with the losses of the last year and part of this year expenditure for sites will be looked at to try and save money. 

The golf buggy type collection vehicles used on one or two sites (I think Hillhead is one example) are a great advancement on noise reduction. No viable quiet grass cutters seem to be in use although on sites with less expanses of grass it might be feasible?

What I don't understand is the need for a bowling green effect, we were on a C&CC site recently and the mower was taken repeatedly over the same areas until 6pm in the evening. 

 numerous site have some battery hand tools blowers and hedge trimmers ride on mowers and hand mowers are replaceby the most economically ,available contract on regular intervals and red diesel is still quite cheap, compared with. the cost of electric ride on mowers and as stated in above posted is not the sound of the engines  but the mower bladed andv grass collection equipment that is where the noise comes from hence the decibel reducing ear defenders needed by the operator, 

Electric buggy used at Whitewater park for site maintenance/bin emptying etc, I think they will become more widespread in use as the ICE tractors need replacing. As for the mowing of grass the wardens can't win can they! moaned about if it's too long and moaned about if they are cutting.

To do a one off job they would need an empty site, but have to jump in when for the short time a pitch becomes vacant, or the car is not on pitch as in our case where we returned to a mowed grass 'finger' and around our pitch. So yes, these wardens were showing empathy towards their customers.

Just in case my post sounded like a moan it wasn't, it was a comment about the different approaches to grass lengths.  The vagaries of UK weather are the difficult bit for anyone with a mower.

Literally logged on here to post about this. We are on Broadway site at the moment and the M6 would be more peaceful.

2 hours the loudest mower has been going round . On a bank holiday ...cutting the already really short grass ! Really ? 
The grass is so short anyway . Unfair . 

Cars tanking round at way over the speed limit too . 

makes you wonder why we are paying already high prices for this . 

yep its a moan ...but the sound is deafening and the grass doesnt need cutting