Industry Keep it in the family 54
Family businesses tend to be inherited rather than created - it’s often not until they are passed on that they are recognised as such. RT Machinery, in contrast, seems to have been born with the intention of being a family outfit and at any one time has at least three, sometimes even four, generations involved.
Schools & Colleges Pupil premium
Premier sporting provision permeates Oundle School, one of Britain’s top independent schools, under a ten year mission to give every pupil the chance to excel.
Keeping in shape! 68
With grammar schools firmly back on the agenda, Pitchcare went to East Belfast to meet Michael Quee, Head Groundsman at Campbell College, an all-boys school catering for students from as young as four up to eighteen years old.
Winter Sports Five weeks, four days, three hours 72
This was the time allowed from seeding the pitch to the starting whistle of the quarter final of the Rugby League Challenge Cup game against Wakefield Trinity. Not a great window to grow in the grass, as Dave Saltman reports.
Equestrian Back on track!
Public Places A Pipe Dream!
Corridors of Colour
Conservation Which trees should you check? 98
Autumn is the common time for fungi to produce their fruiting bodies. Wood decay fungi are no different. Everyone involved in managing areas of trees with any form of public interaction should be aware of the need to check trees and react accordingly.
Helping out ‘Ratty’ 60 104
Let’s be honest, not many people like rats so, when Winston Graham wrongly cast the unassuming Water Vole as ‘Ratty’ in Wind in the Willows, the little critter was often seen as a pest. Nowadays though, much more is known about its lifestyle.
Under the cover of darkness 108
John O’Gaunt greenkeeper and ecologist, Steve Thompson, says that, whilst you are tucked up in bed, there is more activity going on under the cover of darkness than you might imagine.
Technical Put an end to them... 110
Reesink Turfcare’s Trevor Chard says that aeration is widely recognised as the most important task implemented on fine turf, and there are few single procedures that can produce as many benefits for the grass.
To line or not to line? 116
Barry Pace offers, what he calls, ‘A Fools Guide to Bunker Liners’. In this article, he explains the various options available, discusses the success rates and looks at some of the pitfalls that await the unsuspecting. The bottom line to ask yourself is, do you need to line at all?
Municipal rotary mowing 82
It’s rare for a sports facility to re-open after a closure, but Hereford Racecourse is now firmly part of the jumps racing circuit again, thanks to a team effort by racecourse groundsmen.
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James Whitton has been in the groundcare industry for nearly forty years and has kindly offered to share his machinery experience with a series of articles. In this first one, he will explore the reasons why the UK has still not adopted rotary mowing as the predominant method of amenity grass cutting.
Training 88
Glasgow Green is the UK’s oldest public park. Situated on the east side of the city centre, it is a mecca for locals and tourists, attracting millions of visitors every year, and hundreds of pipe bands!
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The Calderdale Corridors of Colour project is a planting scheme to combat the loss of wildflower meadows by planting new areas using a UK native mix. Mark Dempsey explains how the project aims to provide urban spaces with a pop of colour.
Practical Golf Course Safety 138
Has Health and Safety gone mad or is it completely misunderstood, misinterpreted and everything else in between? Paul Worster, Golf Courses Manager at Minchinhampton Golf Club discusses.
Service Support and Warranty 140
Nigel Church is a Product Trainer with Cutting Edge Training, an operating division of Ransomes Jacobsen. In this article, he looks at the value of staff training for those that support the operator and the machines they use.
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Here come the floods? Product news Offside
Preparing for winter 154
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134 Daniel Lightfoot, Syngenta
Myerscough College Frank Newberry
Winter woes for synthetics Preparing for winter
144 148 150 152
120 Daniel Ratling, Whitgift School
A notifiable nuisance! Japanese Knotweed Art of Application
122 130 134
Also in this issue News Grasscutter The phyte back begins 5 94 120
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Michael Quee, Campbell College
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Paul Worster, Minchinhampton Golf Club
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