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Today, any knowledgeable turf professional knows that there are a number of options to choose from when purchasing a mower to cut large expanses of contoured turf with a rotary mower. Articulating rotary mowers are a common site at almost any golf course. What many new to the profession may find hard to believe is that articulating rotary mowers didn’t even exist 25 years ago. The first articulating rotary was introduced by Lastec in 1990.
In 1990, Jeff Laskowski founded Lastec, which began manufacturing and marketing
a simple mower designed to cut rolling turf without scalping or missing grass. This revolutionary PTO-driven mower developed by his friend and early partner, Dan Tekulve, utilized seven 21” rotary decks attached to a frame that was pulled behind
a tractor. Each floating deck was driven with a belt transferring power from one deck to the next. This early mower could cut 10 feet wide as accurately as seven workers using small push mowers. This design was revolutionary at the time and granted multiple patents. One tractor and one mower replaced the efforts of seven without any compromise to cut quality.
What started out on Jeff’s kitchen table has become one of the most respected manufacturers of articulating rotary mowers in the industry. Perhaps the most visible tribute to the concept has been that all wide area grooming mowers on the market today attempt to imitate the cut quality of the articulating rotary deck Lastec introduced to the world two decades ago. Lastec’s patents still give every Articulator measurable advantages in efficiency, simplicity, and cost when compared to any others. Lastec mowers are still the only wide area articulators available in zero turn configurations.
Lastec has had over two decades to refine the concept of articulating rotary mowers and today offers the most comprehensive line of articulating rotaries. While Lastec remains a comparatively small player in the whole turf industry, it is the dominant manufacturer of rotary mowers designed to cut the most challenging turf on the planet. That’s why one in four of the top 100 golf courses routinely look to Lastec Articulators to meet their cutting needs.