Golf
What’s in the shed? 3 x John Deere 2500B greens mowers 1 x John Deere 2500B approach mower
1 x John Deere 2500B with Greentek sarrels, verticuts, rollers and brushes 2 x Jacobsen tri king tee mowers 2 x John Deere 3225C fairway mowers 1 x John Deere 3245C Semi rough mower 1 x Toro sidewinder 1 Toro batwing rough cutter 1 x Kubota F 3060 Rough cutter 1 x New Holland TN75 Tractor
1x John Deere 50hp compact tractor with loader
1 x New Holland 40hp Boomer tractor 1 x Kubota compact tractor 1 x Kubota KX91 excavator 4 x Cushmans 1 with Hardy spray rig 3 x Kawazaki Mules 1 x SISIS AerAid 1 x Coremaster 1 x 2 metre Vertidrain 1 x 2 metre Rytec flail collector 1 x Bomford Turner reach arm flail 1 x Bomford turner 1.5 metre flail 1 x Vredo seeder 1 x SISIS over seeder 1 x SISIS litamiser 1 x Krone rotovator 1 x Sisis faiway slitter 1x Greenteck greens slitter 3 x trailers 6 x Flymo 2 x Kubota rotary mowers. 8 x strimmers 3 x leaf blowers 1 x Tornado tractor mounted blower 2 x Toro pedestrian greens mowers 2 x John Deere pedestrian mowers 2 x Lloyds pedestrian tees mowers 5 x Stihl chainsaws 1 x Cushman top dresser 1 x Dakota spin top dresser 1 x Classon turf cutter 1 x Brouwer turf cutter 1 x Royer soil shredder 1 x Arbor Eater wood chipper 1 x Hunter Jupiter ATI cylinder grinder
1 x Logic Aquarius PC based irrigation controller
20 I PC AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2014
The Royal Ashdown Forest team l-r: Richard, Stewart, Deputy CM Ray, Leon, Dave the mechanic, Lee, Jason and Dave
are most of the tees. Any new tees constructed in the last twenty years have been of a 50/50 rootzone mix of sand and recycled green waste.” “We have just replaced the irrigation mains and upgraded the system; a lot of which was done in-house, saving the club about £50,000. Because of the difference in height across both courses, we have got a system running at 12 BAR to make sure water gets to where it should. We have no fairway watering; just tees and greens.” “Over the last ten years, we have removed
hectares of trees and we have more to go. The difference to the greens has been incredible. Drier, healthier, more consistent and disease free. As a result, we have no temporary greens.” “Throughout the growing season, we cut
the greens daily at 4mm with John Deere triples fitted with groomers running 2mm below height of cut. We also use a sports turf metals brush attached to the front of each greens mower to stand the grass up.
The greens are topdressed once a fortnight, and sometimes weekly, depending on the play, with a pure sand dressing using a Cushman mounted Dakota spreader. We run sarrel rollers over the greens during the summer months and a mixture of deep slitting and solid tining with a Sisis AerAid in autumn and winter. Verti-draining is carried out in early October with a two metre verti- drain fitted with 350mm x 13mm tines.” “We never blanket spray the greens for
weeds or disease. Only if leatherjackets are present in numbers do we spray all greens with an insecticide. Annually, we use less than four litres of fungicide, which is spot sprayed on one or two shaded tees,” Chris confirms. “Greens are given two light dressings of
lawn sand in spring, two weeks apart, once the soil temperature gets up to 7O is followed, in May, with 35gm2
of an 8:0:0
organic fertiliser. Then, every four weeks, 40 litres of seaweed and iron mixed with 500mm of Primo Maxx per hectare. This
C plus. This
Winter tree clearance work is ongoing
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