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or many years the sports turf industry relied on many of the old tried and tested manufacturers who were involved in the development and supply of traditional maintenance machines. It was not perhaps until the mid to late 1980s that we began to see some innovative developments with the introduction of some new product designs such as the vertidrain aerators, topdressers and disc seeders. They began to change and stimulate the industry into what we see today.
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The range of specialist machinery now on offer is staggering. We have Koro fraise mowers, linear aerators, air assisted aerators, topdressers, laser guided mowers and line markers, and so on.
One firm that has contributed much to this change is Turfmech, a small Staffordshire company, formed in 1990 by Austin Jarrett and his wife Sabine.
AUSTIN has always been interested in engineering, having studied and gained an HND in Agricultural Engineering at Writtle College. Once qualified, Austin got himself a job working for a turf company where he got hands on experience in using and selling turf harvesting equipment. It was his thirst for engineering that led him to decide to set up his own business in 1990. He saw an opportunity to fill a void in the leaf collecting and sweeping market
which led to him designing the Tornado leaf blowers and vacuums, targeting the golf and Local Authority markets. From those early days, Turfmech Machinery has developed into a major equipment producer in its own right, manufacturing, marketing and supporting an extensive product range for the turf market. The company has developed and marketed well over twenty products, ranging from mowers, turf harvesting machines, blowers, vacuums, rotary decompactors and topdressers. Listed are a few of the products that have been developed and marketed by Turfmech:
• Tornado debris blowers
• Turfmech V800 high performance truck loaders
• The TM5 and TM1 pedestrian and high tip vacuum collectors
• Tri Deck fine finish rotary mowers
• The Earthquake rotary decompactor which can now offer sand injection options
• A range of ProPass ‘light and frequent’ top dressers
TURFMECH
Laurence Gale MSc spends a day with Austin Jarrett MD of Turfmech
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