Pitchcare Classifieds SPORTS TURF CONTRACTORS
CH GROUNDS MAINTENANCE LTD
DRAINAGE
Piped Drainage, Sand Slitting, SandMaster CONSTRUCTION
Sports Fields and Golf Courses RENOVATION
Verti-draining, GroundBreaker, Over-seeding Top-dressing, Koro Field Topmaker
GOLF COURSE & SPORTSGROUND CONSTRUCTION
RENOVATION & MAINTENANCE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LAND DRAINAGE SCHEMES WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Tel.01722 716361
www.mjabbott.co.uk
Tel: 01494 758208
info@chgrounds.com www.chgrounds.com
SPORTS TURF D CRANE
Construction Golf Courses, Natural/
Artificial Pitches, MUGAs
Renovation Koro Field Top Maker, Fibre Sand Installation, Laser Grading, Seeding
email:
info@agripower.co.uk www.agripower.co.uk
Tel: 01494 866776 Drainage
Piped Drainage, Sandmaster, Whiz Wheel, Gravel Banding
Tel:01254 878047
Email:
info@dcranesportsturf.com Website:
www.dcranesportsturf.com
Contractors
Bringing in Expert Assistance
The latest equipment will be more reliable
John Handley discusses the role of the contractor and the benefits they can provide over ‘doing the job’ in-house
IN straitened economic times, it can be difficult to justify obtaining resources to outsource work, and a lot of managers will be told that they need to try to undertake the job themselves. This is a double-edged sword; in struggling to undertake a new task we develop fresh skills, but it can also reduce the flow of new ideas and tie up resources that might be more usefully employed elsewhere.
SCONSTRUCTION DRAINAGE
Sand Slitting, Gravel Banding V RENOVATION
erti Draining, Hollow Coring, Scarifying, Koro Field Topmaker, Topdressing, Overseeding, Sand Spreading
ports Fields and Golf Courses
The best facility managers have the confidence to acknowledge that they can’t do everything. They understand that ‘knowing a man who can’ is probably more important. So, who do the top venues trust to undertake work on their facilities and what do they stand to benefit by allowing strangers to carry out contract work?
Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Draining, Gravel Banding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
Mobile: 07860 259692
Tel: 01284 735105 Email:
peter@buryturfcare.com www.buryturfcare.com
Advertising in the classified section of Pitchcare magazine costs as little as £200 a year
Contact Peter Britton on 01952 898516
138 PC FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013
Tel: 01772 780545
danvicturfcare@btconnect.com
Mobile: 07768 122577
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation
It is inherent in our nature not to trust strangers, particularly itinerant workers. We develop relationships; that builds trust. This is hard to do with individuals who we only see occasionally, but not impossible. Managers can learn a lot from people who regularly get to work at other facilities. Trusting other people takes time, but it may be worth doing.
This is a good time of the year to walk over your venue with them and pick their brains; they may come up with ideas that can help earn or save you money.
Slitting Banding Maintenance
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston, Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
Seeing the same venue day-in and day-out can prevent you looking at it objectively; as a manager, you can be too close
to the action to make difficult decisions. Occasionally, renovations at the end of a season may need to be damaging to the surface to be beneficial in the long-term and create a better surface for the start of the next playing season.
Managers can be reticent to upset members, and this is where contractors are commonly called upon to be more objective and prepared to do the work that’s going to resolve the underlying problems.
The equipment used by machinery contractors is often more reliable as it is used more often and, consequently, serviced and maintained more frequently. It more often complies with the latest Health and Safety legislation than machinery only used occasionally.
The machinery used by a contractor is often better suited to undertaking the job more effectively, thereby reducing inconvenience to customers. For example, a golf course manager may have the option of employing a specialist contractor to apply a herbicide to the fairways with a machine that has turf tyres, 1000 litre tank and a 9 metre boom fitted with blob markers and a rinse tank all within a few hours; or alternatively, they might consider using their own 200 litre, 3 metre boom sprayer that is occasionally mounted on course machinery, thereby taking up considerably more time and resources to undertake
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