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While pulling covers with limited staff numbers is hard work, it helps to facilitate our ‘little and often’ approach to drying down our courts
rolling. This is to ensure that all holes are closed up before we start our spring work, so there is plenty of time for the surface to bind and heal before the courts start to be dried down for the playing season.
Much of the pre-season work is site specific, but ensuring the surface remains clean and free of any organic matter build-up is a must. In addition, we treat for moss, and make sure this is brushed out before we start drying down. We’ve mentioned our mattress analogy already so, in this case, moss would be a mattress on top of the wooden board! No amount of rolling is going to shift it, so it has to go. For us, our dry down starts properly in the second or third week of April (a relative luxury compared to most cricket squares, we accept!). There is plenty of ‘light’ rolling when we use the cylinder mowers, but nothing of any great weight before then.
At this point, we should explain how we approach our ‘pre-season rolling’ or, as we view it, our ‘pre-season drying’. In order to understand this properly, we need to explain our perspective on drying the courts down, and how rolling fits in to this.
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For us, in order to create even bounce, we need to ensure that the whole profile is dried evenly, so that we retain some moisture content right through it. Now, in our view, a heavy roller is not always the best way to do this as, in our opinion, quite often, particularly when the surface we’re working on is in the early stages of ‘drying down,’ we can pull too much moisture out of the surface too quickly. As a result, we do a lot of our ‘rolling’ with our Dennis FT610s, and also our court covers. Ultimately, with a clay surface, if
we look at it in very simple way, we’re trying to bake the clay hard. If we pull all the moisture out in one go, the clay crumbles, and we lose stability. However, if we pull the moisture out slowly over time, until we hit the optimum level, the surface will have dried evenly through the profile, giving a firm-hard playing surface, and no crumbling.
Now, we aren’t suggesting that our methods are accessible to everyone. We do a lot of our ‘rolling’ using our rain covers, which would certainly be prohibitive to virtually all cricket venues, but the principle is the same. We’ll often pull the covers on overnight, even with no rain forecast. The pressure on the surface is much less than if we took a heavy roller on, but is enough to pull some moisture up through the profile. When the covers are removed the following morning, the surface is then baked under the sun (hopefully!).
The problem, as we see it, is that, if we roll the nuts out of a surface with as much weight and as frequently as possible, we’re going to pull the moisture out to a certain depth and create a break. Once the profile has been dried too much, and that break has formed, no amount of irrigation is going to relieve it, without aerating through it to allow the profile to re-ameliorate. If we do the dry down slowly, we can monitor the profile, without risking going too far and not being able to fix any problems we could create. As with any venue, a lot of what we do is dependent on the weather. There have been years where the heavy roller has never made it on to our courts, because it simply hasn’t been needed. We’ve had enough warm days where we’ve been
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