Jeremy gets blown away ...
Jeremy Lucas of Park Sportsground
Contractors used the day to catch up on the latest developments
As a contractor I am always on the look out for new machinery to improve the productivity and quality of our workmanship when carrying out routine maintenance operations. We specialise in the annual maintenance of sport pitches and grounds at eighty five schools in Northamptonshire area.
At this time of the year leaf and litter debris can often be a time consuming task, so the opportunity to come to the leaf demo day at Rugby School not only enabled me to see a wide range of equipment on show but see it being used on location.
I was particularly interested in looking
for a machine to sweep leaves from different surfaces. The SISIS Litamisa was one such machine that caught my eye. It has been around for some time and clearly worked well when demonstrated. I was also interested in the simple vacuums that Overton UK had on display. The Wheelie bin vacs would be ideal in the school environment, they had a good strong vacuum system and would be ideal for collecting leaves and rubbish from confined areas. Also, the Kersten sweepers
demonstrated their versatility and again would be something to consider when maintaining school paved areas and artificial playing surfaces. Of the larger leaf collecting machines on show the Turfmech's TN5 and the Wessex STC 120 looked to be very efficient in the way they handled the problem of leaves and debris on large areas.
SISIS
The choice and range of machinery being demonstrated was excellent; the fact that it was all on hand in one location along with plenty of leaves to clear up was for me important and time well spent. As for deciding on what and which bit of equipment to invest in would be down to budgets and how well the equipment fits into my existing operations.
James meads business!
Firstly, a big thank you to Pitchcare for getting together so many different companies. I am very interested in the Etesia range of collectors and was pleased to see them unload the ride on cutter collector range. I feel their H100D is excellent in most situations. Here at Rugby it is very easy to use on large lawns and lends itself well to go into our smaller gardens, the high lift makes emptying into trailers, skips etc., very simple indeed. The operator position also lends itself to many hours of fatigue free use. The Hydro 124 however is something that may be of some interest to us as a multi-purpose collector. With most grounds scarifying is necessary to keep healthy lawn in good fettle, I am looking to see just how good the 124 is at this task, this will help in freeing the use of a tractor and quickly double up as needed to cut our surrounds. Once again thank you for helping to create a very enjoyable day.
AMAZONE
www.amazone.co.uk ETESIA
www.etesia.co.uk JK INC -B
BUFFALO
www.jkinc.co.uk KERSTEN
www.kersten-machines.com MASSEY FERGUSON
www.masseyferguson.com NEW HOLLAND
www.newholland.com/uk OVERTON
www.overton-uk.co.uk PINNACLE POWER
www.pinnaclepower.co.uk
RECO -G GRASSHOPPER
www.reco.co.uk SISIS EQUIPMENT
www.sisis.com SWEEPFAST
www.sweepfast.com TENNANT
www.lvcuk.com TRILO
www.trilo.co.uk TURFMECH
www.turfmech.co.uk VOTEX
www.votex.co.uk WESSEX MACHINERY 01420 478111
Overton
Kersten
Turfmech
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