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Tools of the trade SAREL


ROLLERS By Laurence Gale MSc


REGULAR aeration programmes are essential to ensure quality of turfgrass remains high through the course of a sports season. The impact and cost of neglecting these operations can be significant with consequences such as cancelled fixtures.


All grass swards are grown on soil/sand profiles that provide the necessary structure for plant growth. This growing medium, commonly known as soil, is made up of proportions of soil solids (mineral and organic material) and soil pores (water and air).


Maintaining the correct balance of these components is critical for sustaining healthy plant growth. The spaces between the particles of solid material are just as important to the nature of soil as are the solids themselves. It is in these pore spaces that air and water circulate, and help provide the plant with the necessary nutrients and air and water it requires to respire and grow.


It is vitally important to ensure the top 25-40mm of your playing surface is always kept open and free draining, this particularly applies to soil based rootzones. There are a range of specialist tools and machinery designed specifically to improve aeration and drainage.


One of the most cost effective and easiest to use is the Sarel Roller. The Sarel Roller is a pedestrian hand tool that combines the use of a roller and a set of sharp needle tines that penetrate the playing surface.


Sarel Rollers tend to be used on smaller, fine turf facilities such as bowling greens, golf greens, grass tennis courts and cricket squares. It is simply a case of pushing or pulling the roller over the


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playing surface; the weight of the roller will aid the penetration of the needle tines into the surface. Depth of penetration will also be determined by the condition of the soil at the time of rolling.


The Sarel Roller is popular with cricket Groundsmen, who regularly use the tool to repair wickets after play. It succeeds in opening up the surface to allow water and air back into the soil profile, and also offers the ability to prepare a seed bed for sowing.


Three sizes of Sarel roller are available, 300mm (12”), 600mm (24”) and 900mm (36”) widths. Sarel rollers cost between £300-£600. A range of Sarel Rollers can be seen in the Pitchcare Shop : www.pitchcare.com/shop/prod uct/340/65


Some manufacturers refer to these machines as ‘Sorrel’ rollers. There seems to be no reason for this and we understand that Sarel should be the correct spelling. One Greenkeeper even went as far as to suggest that “the manufacturers can’t spell!” A bit harsh perhaps. Another theory is that Sarel’s are walk behind and Sorrel’s are powered or towed.


Whether it is Sarel or Sorrel, or indeed Sarrell, Sarell, Sorel or Sorrell they all perform the same important function.


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