Winter Sports - Football
What’s in the shed? Madejski Stadium
Dennis G760 mowers x 2 c/w with changeable units, brushes, verti cuts and sarrel rollers
Honda pedestrian mowers x 4 Toro ProCore 648 aerator Techneat 125 litre sprayer 1.4m multi seeder Kubota B2530 tractor SGL 360 lighting rigs x 2 SGL MU36 lighting rigs x 2 Various linemarkers Hogwood Training Ground Dennis G760 mowers x 4 Honda pedestrian mowers x 6 Martin Lishman sprayer - 500 litre Charterhouse tool carrier Campeys Imants Rotoknife Techneat sprayer - 125 litre Wiedenmann 2.1 TerraSpike HD New Holland 60hp tractor Kubota L3540 tractor Kubota B3150 tractor Kubota G26 ride on mower Kubota RTV900 utility vehicle Kubota BX2530 compact tractor Vicon 300 fertiliser spreader Scotts spreaders Various linemarkers
winter months.”
“With this in mind, making sure we have the turf in peak condition in late October and early November is essential to the success of the season - if the whole pitch is not as strong as possible by this point, it can create a significant threat to the surface for the remainder of the season. Of course, the weather plays a huge part in this process also, as that can dictate when we are able to spray and fertilise the turf. We have set programmes in place for both sites.” “During the summer months, we cut at 25-
26mm whilst, for the autumn and winter months, it is raised to 28-29mm.” Premier Pitches carry out our renovations
for both sites. “The stadium pitch is a full Desso
GrassMaster® construction and has to cope
with three solid weeks of corporate games once the season has finished. Renovations usually begin at the end of May, first week in June. We killed off the pitch with glyphosate ten days prior to koroing to expose all the Desso so that it was all nice and clean. It was then agitated with a Restorake to ‘fluff it up’ to create a nice fine tilth. It was then sand dressed with 60 tonnes of Mansfield MM45, seeded and a pre-seed fertiliser added.” “We put the Air2G2 across the pitch and then put on the germination covers for around ten days. Once removed, we started our regime of rolling and cutting with the Dennis G760s, just to tip the top off to strengthen the plant, and then moved on the the Honda rotaries once the sward had thickened up. We find that, if we use the rotaries too soon, they have the affect of
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