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county that had a Groundsman’s Association constituted under the CCB. Cambridgeshire received their trailer in the summer of 2005 and training days were organised to ensure the safe use of the equipment. The trailer was quickly booked for work across the county and, in the first year, twelve clubs were able to use the equipment to improve their end of season renovations. There were some
reservations about some of the equipment on the trailer but this was addressed and the associations across the country were able to replace the equipment if they felt the need.
The Cambridgeshire trailer had a very successful 2006 season and was used at sixteen different venues. To make this work it was down to one person taking responsibility for the administration of the trailer, and arranging the collection and return of the trailer to its base. Maintenance was also the responsibility of the administrator, to make sure the equipment was in a good and safe condition. At the end of the 2006 season the Groundsman’s Association committee decided to replace the existing aggressive scarifier with a more user-friendly machine. The decision was taken to replace it with a Sisis Auto 5 machine, which had tungsten tip blades for better wear. It was felt that a deep scarifier was not the right machine for amateur use and, if the thatch was so deep, other methods of removal would be more suited. Just a thought here. How much thatch can actually be removed by these high- powered machines? Take a
scarifying reel for example. The blades are set at approx 20mm apart and the blade width is 3mm so, with each pass, the best that can be achieved is 15% removal. Two passes are as much as would be possible because of the cubing effect of any more passes. So 30% is the very best that can be achieved. Assuming that the work is carried out in dry conditions, as is usually done by operators, and a blower is used for removing the debris some of the thatch is blown back into the slits from where it was removed, so considerably less is removed. With the machinery fund making money available for equipment, Cambridgeshire Groundsman’s Association decided that a second trailer of equipment would be of huge benefit to clubs in the county.
An application was put
together and was granted by the ECB. The second trailer was available for the 2007 season. Both trailers are now equipped with Sisis Auto 5 scarifying machines with brush attachments for cleaning off the debris. Both have Groundsman Pedestrian Aerators and Sisis drop spreaders instead of the troublesome spreader on the original trailer. Both trailers have been
working flat out around Cambridgeshire and are now embedded into the end of season renovation programme throughout the county. A fee is charged for the use of the trailer and this money is used for maintenance of the equipment. Any surplus money will go towards any other equipment the committee thinks would benefit clubs in Cambridgeshire.
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