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FAVOURITE KIT LEN SMITH


Head Groundsman, Sophia Gardens Glamorgan CCC


As a cricket groundsman, I would always go for a Lloyds 21” Paladin mowing machine, fitted with a shaver blade. This is because it has a superb cutting action and easy height adjustment. Recreational cricket clubs cannot afford a machine for the pitches and another for the square, and the Paladin fills both roles. Although the maintenance of these machines can only be carried out by qualified fitters approved by Lloyds, spare parts are usually easily obtained. Having said that it is a very hard wearing, low maintenance machine.


GORDON MOIR - Links Superintendent, St. Andrews Links My favourite piece of kit is a hose! That way when we apply water to


the greens we know it is only going to the exact place we want it to and we are not applying too much.


If you want to speak about machines, then I guess a lot of my staff would say the Dakota 440 topdresser because of its versatility. As well as saving them a great deal of time, it saves them a lot of effort as we use it mostly for loading Cushman mounted topdressers, mixing and screening divot mix, adding sand to bunkers and adding rootzone to construction jobs. Oh, and we use it for topdressing fairways ! Now I will be very unpopular with many of the other machinery folk because I didn’t say their machine!


10 We all have them -a a


favourite film, a favourite piece of music and, hopefully, a favourite


trade magazine (you’re too kind!). But what of


the machinery you use on a regular basis.


We asked a selection of our readers to name names.


JOHN HAYES Head Groundsman Celtic Football Club


ONE of my favourite machines is the verti-drain. At Celtic Park we have the Greens Verti-drain 7316 that we share with our training ground.


In the past we had to get contractors in to verti- drain, but 2 years ago the club did a deal with Scottish Grass Machinery and the first thing I had on the list was a verti-drain. Depending on the weather and hours of play we’ve had, we verti-drain every 6 weeks to allow water and air movement through the surface and into the lower rootzone, and always vary the depth of tines each time we do it. This stops it from panning. The simple tine design


makes it easy to change from single tines to multi- tine heads in no time at all and, with sealed bearings, virtually maintenance free. The verti-drain is good for relieving compaction, improving drainage, and causes the minimum of disturbance to the surface.


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