26 MACHINERY PLANT & VEHICLES


Sportsturf drainage specialists


MAY 2010


Sweeting Brothers Limited is a leading UK installer of sports turf drainage. Operating from its base in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Sweeting began as a land drainage contractor but has branched out into sports turf drainage and now embraces every aspect of water management. Services include the design and installation of agricultural, pipeline and sports turf drainage systems to reservoir and pond construction, watercourse maintenance and the installation of irrigation and sewage treatment systems. All dedicated sports turf


machinery is fitted with low ground pressure tyres or tracks. From initial contact with the client through site surveying and the design and installation of the drainage scheme to the drawing of final plans, Sweeting can offer a complete service from start to finish of the contract.


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Batteries included automatically


The Auto-Barrow is a battery


powered wheelbarrow for moving all types of loads over any terrain efficiently and safely, ideal for use whilst gardening,


building, or


doing general DIY and capable of carrying up to 100kg of weight. The Auto-Barrow can take the effort out of moving heavy goods such as bags of cement, paving slabs, bricks,


turf,


plants, waste and rubble and the semi-automatic tipping mechanism makes for easy unloading too. Its size and loading capacity, means it can help reduce the risk of injuries caused by bending and straining, which are often associated with a traditional wheelbarrow The Auto-Barrow is an ideal piece of equipment for gardeners,


landscapers, &


builders and fits through standard doors. It features an electronic speed control and 95 litre galvanised steel skip.


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soil, gravel,


venues offering seven 18 hole golf courses, having the right equipment for every part of the groundcare programme is vital. For the Ashbury Golf Hotel the specific needs were fast, efficient cutting at the treelines and the right equipment was two Toro GM7210 zero turn rotaries. The Ashbury Golf and Manor House Hotels are set in 650 acres of beautiful Devon countryside at the foothills of Dartmoor National Park and provide golf and other leisure activities to a very high standard.


manager Steve Harris has successfully operated


Course Toro


equipment supplied and supported by Devon Garden


right for Ashbury Golf Hotel Machinery. With their help he compared the relevant equipment on the market and found the Toro GM7210 the best. “When you present all these courses daily speed really counts”, says Steve. “These Toro zero turn do the job just as well as the articulated mowers and with no scalping. The way that they do the work without frequent reversing gives them a tremendous speed advantage and the operators love them.” Devon Garden Machinery who supply and support Hayter and Toro products are celebrating their 25th year in the industry.


Toro zero turns from Hayter When you are one of the few


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Caring for treasured pitches


to the Verti-Drain 7416, but Head Groundsman


St Mirren is a recent convert Tommy


Docherty has found Charterhouse Turf Machinery’s decompactor to be a useful and versatile addition to his pitch maintenance armoury. This second generation


machine has a working width of 1.6m to make short work of full


sized pitches, while being of a lighter construction to allow use with tractors from 45hp. Capable of working up to 35cm (14in) deep, tine angle can be adjusted to 25deg to fine tune the amount of heave that is achieved. “A lot of the contractors we


were using at the time had Charterhouse Verti-Drains, and


all had good things to say about them,


it’s a very popular


machine,” he says. “I always thought what an excellent finished job the contractors did with the Verti-Drain whenever we required them to come in to do some work..”


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Knives are out for inferior blades Manufactured from hardened


tool steel, Toro says that the EdgeMax bedknife provides up to three times longer edge retention than a standard bedknife, resulting in a cleaner, crisper cut for healthier turf and an unrivalled after-cut appearance. Available across


Toro’s


Greensmaster and Reelmaster ranges on models fitted with DPA (Dual Precision


Adjustment) cutting units, EdgeMax blades grinding and replacing,


also significantly reduce maintenance time. This is thanks to the use of hardened steel, which results in 50 per cent less time adjusting,


saving labour time and money. Toro


believes that this


combination of longer life and reduced maintenance time can equate to long-term cost savings.


Lely UK Click here to request literature Growing the potential


backlapping, thus


Having obtained an Avant mini loader for his own private use, Paul Bacon immediately saw the potential of the machine as a self-drive hire tool and so in 2008 set-up Avant Hire Services based at his home near Attleborough in Norfolk. During the past two years he has grown the fleet to a total of six machines together with a large selection of attachments including a variety of buckets, mowers, a trencher,


rotavator and jib crane. One loader, a 630 model


powered by an economical Kubota diesel engine developing 21 kW (28 hp), is currently on long-term hire to nearby Robin Tacchi Plants, a large wholesale nursery specialising in shrubs and herbaceous perennials.


This


company already runs a pair of older Avants equipped with forklift masts but needed another machine capable of accessing all


the growing areas for order picking duties. This task involves the transportation of large wooden boxes across rutted and muddy ground,


usually wet


because of regular irrigation, but the 630 has tackled the conditions in its stride and is hence keeping plant orders on schedule.


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