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pollute the workshop area unless some form of extraction is installed. Ask for the Health and Safety dust measurement document.


HAVING considered all the aspects of having you own grinder, and decided that this would be beneficial to your workshop, you now have to consider costs. If you compare the cost to mowing equipment then a grinder will be slightly less expensive than a new greens triple. If we take the cost of an all in one automatic grinder capable of relief grinding, spin grinding, grinding both faces of the bottom blade and capable of returning the cutting units to the original manufacturers specification, delivered and installed and the operators fully trained with certificates to conform with health and safety, the cost is in the region of £22,500.


Whether to purchase outright or, as is becoming more popular, lease, hire purchase, lease or operator lease, you can spread the cost


over five or seven years to coincide with cash flow.


Example of lease or hire purchase costs for the above machine.


Total invoice price: £22,535 Monthly payments over seven years: £354


This equates to £81.69 per week.Less than the average cost of one round of golf every other day.


Purchasing a grinder is a long term investment, but the costs can be significantly offset in the short term by choosing the right machine with the right method of grinding. It will save you money lost to contracting out, save you money through improving the life expectancy of cylinders and bottom blades and reducing down time. Most important of all the standard of your course will only improve. For further information please contact: Tony Snaith at tony@snaith.fsbusiness.co.uk


Days OFF! ... or what Pitchcare contributors get up to out of office hours


DARREN BALDWIN, Head Groundsman, Tottenham Hotspur FC - After 10 years at White Hart Lane I manage to get more days off than I used to, but that might all change again in the near future. The club has made a planning application for a new, state of the art training ground and, if successful, I will project manage all the pitch works. The development will take 2½ years, so it is more than likely we will need to get in a new Head Groundsman at the stadium. It will be an exciting challenge if all goes well. On my day’s off I do like a game of golf, my handicap is 18, but the number of games I play in a year does not justify me being a member of a club. My holidays generally involve golf, usually to Portugal with a group of pals; I love the place. Whenever I can, I do like to go into the city. Recently, I have been able to tie it in with visits to the architects, so I meet up with a pal early evening and go for a chinese meal. I like a bit of a flutter so we usually end up in the Chicago Rock casino, it’s a lot less informal than the others. But my real passion is speedway, ever since I was a boy aged 9 and I went with my family to the World Championships at


Wembley and saw riders such as Michael Lee and Barry Briggs. It is such an exciting sport. One of my pals, Ryan Sullivan, rides for Arena Essex. I have been to a lot of different sporting events but, without doubt, the best ever is the British Grand Prix held at the Millennium Stadium. I’ve been to it every year since 2000.


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