Educational Establishments
Leaf collection is a challenge What’s in the shed?
John Deere 2653B triplex mower Jacobsen T-Plex 185 tees mower 2 x Toro 30" rotary mowers Jacobsen Eclipse cylinder mower 2 x Lloyds Paladin 20" cylinder mowers Ransome 36" cylinder mower 4 x Rover pro cut rotary mowers
Kubota BX2200 tractor with snow blade, brush and Quad X spreader Poweroll 15 roller
Hardi TR3 sprayer with 3m boom and 50m reel with hand lance Stihl earth auger with 100 + 200mm bits 3 x backpack blowers Hand held brushcutter 2 x 30" + pole hedge trimmers Shibaura S320 tractor Borisco diesel mobile well pump Hako Profi-Variette + BSG brushes Bauer 401 sprinkler + 6 x portable sprinklers 2 x Sisis pedestrian scarifiers 3 x chainsaws 1 x pole chainsaw Billy Goat truck loader vacuum Sisis MS4 spiker Sisis Autospread topdresser Sisis reciprocating pto driven brush
Falcon compressor with 600mm + 300mm aerator attachments Allied 414S2D road sweeper Simm power washer Ryan Mataway pedestrian overseeder Hand dragmats, brushes and trulutes Pedestrian water collecting roller Groundsman 460 SDR spiker Scotts 2000 spreader 1 x manual soil screen (drum type) Paterson sarrel roller Water bowser 1140 litre Overton backpack vacume Greenmech chipper shredder
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The new rugby pitch - ready for play this August
headache for David and his staff as it is the site used for the famous annual Trinity Ball. A marquee and concert stage is erected over the lawn where up to 7,000 students and their partners dance the night away, resulting in a a big clean-up operation.
Trees
There are around six hundred trees growing on the grounds, comprising an eclectic mixture of species brought together from many parts of the world. There are eight species of maple, including the iconic Oregon maple in Library Square, seven species of oak, along with ash, silver birch, alder, wild cherry, holly, arbutus, hawthorn, and wych elm. The large Oregon maple in Library Square is described in The Tree Council of Ireland’s Champion Trees list as having the “second greatest girth of its kind in Ireland” and is thought to have arisen from the first batch of seed brought back by Scottish botanist and explorer, David Douglas, in 1827.
The vast majority of trees are deciduous bringing a multitude of challenges, particularly leaf collection and removal during the autumn and early winter. All the leaves are gathered and put into large containers where they are taken to the Santry site for composting.
The indoor arboretum houses many tropical plants, including a thirty foot high banana tree. These trees grow directly in the ground. David has an automatic watering system installed where each plant is given a prescribed amount of water at night. As Trinity lies on a site of archeological
interest, any work on the ground that involves digging (such as tree planting or drainage works), must be supervised by an archaeologist. The remains of the Old Hallows Priory and burial grounds lie directly under the west end of the campus. Reminders of the medieval site are still present.
Back in 1948, two birch trees were planted, each one in the centre of the two lawns inside the front College Green entrance. Both share the same genetic make up and were planted on the same day. Sixty- six years later, one of the trees is much bigger than the other. The reason for this is that the smaller tree is restricted in growth as it was planted over the rubble from the remains of the ancient priory. The taller tree had more fertile ground to grow in and thrived far better than its sister on the other side of the path.
David Hackett has his office on the third floor of a building overlooking Pearse Street. When you walk inside it is like stepping back in time. The original stairs and banisters are still there, as too are the timber window frames. Some of the glass in the windows is as old as the window frames themselves and, if a pane of glass needs replacing, the replacement glass has to be made by hand. The building has a preservation order on it. All the 120 litter bins on site are David’s responsibility. These include thirty-six solar powered compacting bins (on the main campus, with six on the St. James’ hospital site). These are very efficient and save a lot of manpower. When the bins are half full of rubbish, a signal is sent to a control panel
The Lord’s style pavilion
Poweroll 15 at work
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