Pitchcare Classifieds AERATION
DRAINAGE 45
Cost effective drainage quick and neat trenching work with minimal disruption to play.
Contractors
What lies beneath may be trouble!
AFT Trenchers
Tel: 01787 311811
info@trenchers.co.uk www.trenchers.co.uk
DRAINAGE SPECIALISTS
DESIGN & INSTALLATION PRIMARY SYSTEMS SAND SLITTING & GRAVEL BANDING
Tel.01722 716361
www.mjabbott.co.uk
TERRAIN Turf and Trees
10” drill aeration 1m air injection 1m soil coring Air excavation
www.terrainaeration.com terrainaeration@aol.com
DRAINING LTD 25 years in
WORTH sports turf maintenance
Overseeding - Sanding Top Dressing Hollow Coring
Self-drive machinery hire Tel/Fax 01476 550266 Mobile: 07855 431119/20
email:
worthdraining@talktalk.net www.worthdraining.co.uk
CYLINDER GRINDERS
Verti-draining - Koro Blec Groundbreaker
Draining and Gravel Banding
also Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
Mobile: 07860 259692
Tel: 01284 735105 Email:
peter@buryturfcare.com www.buryturfcare.com
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation Tel: 01449 673783
Terrain Aeration’s Lynda Green offers a few words of warning regarding underground services and the unreliability of site plans
WITH any sportsturf or landscape contract that involves work underground, the options for knowing what lies beneath are limited. It is often left to the contractor to scan an area electronically to ensure nothing is left to chance.
For contractors, greenkeeping staff and sportsturf managers, this still may not provide enough information. Even armed with plans showing the layout of underground services, some utility material (piping etc) are not always in the same position as indicated. For example, on a recent parks contract in London, a map was obtained from the local utility company which showed a former air raid shelter where the water pipes had been placed across its roof and would be safe from machinery spiking. In reality, the pipes were laid off to one side of the shelter, thereby halting the contract before it began!
Undetectable dangers Slitting Banding Maintenance
Tel: 01462 683031 email:
admin@huntergrinders.com
www.huntergrinders.com 134 PC JUNE/JULY 2013
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston, Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
www.pitchcare.com
Gas pipes can lurk undetected. Can you forgive men laying a sewer pipe and not marking it on their own plans? How simple are the rules to say “mark on this plan where you put this pipe”; “we want you to put a pipe here” and “x marks the spot”? Should these utility services be placed at a certain depth and, in reality, do contractors care sufficiently if a lack of quality control encourages sub-standard performances?
Some water pipes are plastic and undetectable but, when you puncture them, they create
problems. It’s nice to draw a straight line on a plan to show where the pipes have been placed. It’s a shame that the person with the pen or mouse is never on site to see where the obstructions actually are and if the piping has been moved!
BT fibre optic cables are another example of what lies beneath. If you hit these, the fines metered out will erase your profit margins or even your company! Avoid these and keep an eagle eye open for them, even if you are told they are not present. BT dark green boxes act as a warning and ensure that contractors are fully aware of where the cables are.
Compaction Panning
Another area which had an underground services issue recently was a local amenity park where fairs, car boot sales and other assorted fun days are held.
Articulated lorries delivered goods to these events until a period of heavy rain created havoc. Flooding caused a major headache, and compaction panning was thought to be the case as to why the water was not draining away. The survey and scanner provided a clear indication of where the BT fibre optic cables, water, gas and electric lay, so the all clear was given to apply remedial work on the compacted areas.
A specialist machine was brought in which placed a probe 500mm into the soil and the water drained away.
The following day a different machine was brought in to
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