DESIGNS ON TURF ...
Climate change and the need for speed have proved key drivers for a Dutch engineer who has devoted much of his working life to easing tasks for groundscare professionals. So, next time the Verti-Drain comes out for duty, think of Marinus Reincke. His creative engineering skills have helped fashion this iconic aid to turfcare into almost the industry equivalent of the Hoover.
Verti-Draining is what greenkeepers and other grounds maintenance staff refer to habitually when they seek to relieve compaction and improve damage and root development. The founder and director of Maredo
Marinus Reincke
Is it too early to be making such comparisons? Not if the terminology of groundscare
professionals is any yardstick.
Tom James reports 110
BV Machine Designs, Marinus Reincke has worked in the turfcare sector since the 1980s, amassing a generation of experience designing equipment and machinery to address some of the key issues affecting the industry. As a designer, he sees himself well positioned to continue creating and developing bespoke lines for the burgeoning turf maintenance market. “I have always been interested in
turfcare products, both from the viewpoint of the designer and from the customer as I operate and drive machines myself,” says Marinus. “For me, this is the ideal
combination - knowing how machines work from a technical viewpoint as well as how they feel out in the field.” Marinus has gained his in-depth knowledge by working for pioneering firms committed to bringing leading- edge products to market and recalls
how he first became involved in machine design.
“I had joined the De Ridder contracting firm in the early 1980s and was working there when the Verti- Drain concept was born. After completing my engineering degree, Redexim BV then invited me to join them in 1985.”
Some of the most widely-used machines in the business are due, in part, to his designs and persistent desire to innovate and to create products that the industry really needed.
“In my early years, between 1985 and 1993, I developed the full Verti- Drain line while working on a handful of other machines such as the Verti- Seed [1990], the Verti-Brush [1993] and Turf Tidy between 1994 and 1998.”
The programme of refining and
redeveloping machines continued apace and, from 1997 to 2002, he worked on upgrading the Verti-Drain range. Then, after Redexim bought out Charterhouse, he began upgrading the original Charterhouse line, he
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