Flexible package offer to stadium groundsmen
RANSOMES Jacobsen, the Ipswich- based turf maintenance equipment manufacturer, has launched a scheme to help hard- pressed groundstaff to cost- effectively lease top quality turf maintenance equipment from such renowned brands as Jacobsen, Ransomes, E-Z-GO and Iseki, from as little as £165 per month.
The scheme has three options, which should provide a solution to suit all budgets. However, it’s worth noting that these packages are flexible and, by speaking to a Ransomes Jacobsen dealer, there’s the option to create a package that is suitable for your turf maintenance programme.
With budgets getting tighter and expectations from players and crowds getting higher, the pressure on groundsmen to produce pristine playing surfaces is getting intense
Lynn Hilton retires
Synonymous SISIS stalwart calls it a day
ONE of the industry’s most recognisable (all 5ft 1in of her!) and well respected people has decided to call it a day. Lynn Hilton, Publicity Manager at SISIS, is retiring at the end of August after 42 years service.
Lynn’s late father, Eric Staniforth, was MD and retired after 51 years service. Accompanying her father at the weekends, Lynn even spent some of her growing up years at the old SISIS factory in Cheadle. However, it was never her intention to join the company. She was pursuing a career at ICI Pharmaceuticals, but a family house move meant she had to leave. She took a temporary position with SISIS as PA to the Company Secretary and recalls that her first task was analysing the Shops, Offices and Railway Premises Act!
Lynn found herself enjoying the work and stayed on. Not one to resist a challenge, she worked in virtually every department in the company before finding her true vocation in Publicity and Marketing. That was 1970 and, as the saying goes, she has never looked back. In her time at SISIS she has seen it develop from a UK family based business to a multi-national one, and she has certainly played her role in that development.
Of her time at SISIS Lynn was keen to emphasise the support she has had from the team in her department. Jane Bayley has been with her since the department started 38 years ago and Veda Brindley has been there eight years. “They have given me tremendous support,” said Lynn. “We are more like sisters. In fact once, when I was away on holiday, they completely redecorated my office, just to surprise me.
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For £165 a month, Option 1 allows you to lease a Ransomes Super Certes fine turf walk-behind mower and the class-leading Ransomes Mastiff, which is used at major sporting venues around the world and is recognised as the premier mower for match day preparation.
Option 2 adds the Jacobsen Tri- King ride-on triplex mower, ideal for the training ground maintenance or stadium pitch preparation and an E-Z-GO MPT
800E electric utility vehicle, which can be recharged quickly and operated for less than £1 a day. This package is available at £485 per month.
The final package - Option 3 at £745 per month - includes all the aforementioned equipment and then adds an Iseki TG5390, a new generation tractor with a 40hp engine, intelligent transmission and class leading lifting capacity.
All of these packages have a further option of adding an E-Z-GO stadium mini-ambulance complete with stretcher carrier for just £80 per month.
Rupert Price, Ransomes Jacobsen’s Sales Manager for UK and Ireland, commented, “Televised sport has highlighted the need for immaculate playing facilities and that puts ever increasing pressure on grounds staff, at all levels, to produce top playing surfaces. However, budgets in the lower echelons of football, rugby, cricket and athletics are particularly tight. We have recognised this and created tailored packages to suit the needs of individual clubs and stadiums.”
Research and Development in Golf seminars
Instructional Seminars in Denmark from the Danish Golf Union and STRI in association with Ransomes Jacobsen and Scotts
They are great fun to work with and I will miss them enormously. And the cream cakes.”
Included in her numerous successes are the Grounds and Greens seminars staged in the 1990s, with over 200 delegates at each of the three venues around the country, with over 30 companies exhibiting at them.
Following her retirement, Lynn will certainly not be putting her feet up. In addition to spending more time with husband, John, she will be devoting more hours to her role as the editor of the Macclesfield & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind, a registered charity with 55 volunteers and an editorial ‘staff’ of twelve.
As an avid reader she will no doubt be building up her library of art history books, and she has also admitted to a passion for painting, so “may get the brushes out again”.
Whatever she decides to do, we wish her well.
THE Danish Golf Union will be holding two Research and Development in Golf seminars in November 2008. These one day seminars are intended to update Danish Greenkeepers in the latest developments in the following areas:
- Pest and Disease Control - Soil Science Research - Habitat Management and Environmental Issues - Turf Agronomics - Education Opportunities for Greenkeepers
Topical research developments will also be discussed by leading experts from Denmark and the UK.
Details are as follows:
November 1st 2008 - Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel, Margrethepladsen 1, 8000 Århus C.
November 2nd 2008 - Idrættens hus, Brøndby Stadion 20, 2605 Brøndby.
Both seminars are free of charge. For more information please contact Bob Taylor at STRI on 0044 (0)1274 518903) or email
bob.taylor@stri.co.uk
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