Turning boards for mowing greens

We are now using turning boards when mowing greens. We started using them in the fall and will keep using them through the winter and early spring. This should help reduce the amount of sod work that must be done around greens due to wear from mowing greens in the winter.  The mowers take 4 boards each and they lay them at each side of the green and turn the mower on them after each pass. This keeps the mower off of the turf while turning. After about 6 or 8 passes they must stop and move the boards over and then continue on. This did add some time to the mowing process but we have found that we can use 5 mowers and get done in the same amount of time that it takes when we normally use 4. This is not a problem in the fall and winter when the rest of the golf course is slowing down and we can use more guys to focus on things like this. Below are a few pictures of the guys using the boards.