Pitchcare Classifieds SPORTS TURF CONTRACTORS
• Supplies
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• Construction 01797 252299
www.bourneamenity.co.uk enquiries@bourneamenity.co.uk
CH GROUNDS MAINTENANCE LTD
DRAINAGE
Piped Drainage, Sand Slitting, SandMaster CONSTRUCTION
Sports Fields and Golf Courses RENOVATION
Verti-draining, GroundBreaker, Over-seeding Top-dressing, Koro Field Topmaker
Tel: 01494 758208
info@chgrounds.com www.chgrounds.com
Slitting Banding Maintenance
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston, Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
Established golf greens can be drained at a fraction of the cost of rebuilding them, and with none of the upheaval
Sports Ground Contractors Ltd
David Shelton suggests that choosing the right option to finance your drainage requirements, working when the weather is favourable, and selecting the correct machinery, can help cut costs
D W Clark DRAINAGE LTD
SPECIALIST SPORTSTURF CONSTRUCTION & DRAINAGE CONTRACTORS • Gravel Banding • Sand Slitting
• Top Dressing • Renovation • Irrigation Unit 7, Brailes Industrial Estate, Winderton Lane, Lower Brailes Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5JW
Tel: 01608 685800 Fax: 01608 685801 email:
jim@dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk Web:
www.dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk
land drainage - and this is unwise, for drainage problems rapidly compound themselves. So, if finance is tight, but drainage is essential, how can the two be reconciled?
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The answer is relatively simple - work in the most efficient and effective manner. How? One needs to use today’s high output sports turf drainage machines in optimum soil conditions. This entails planning ahead and stressing to the senior management that soil conditions, and not the calendar, must determine when work is undertaken. A trenching machine, for example, working in the late spring, summer or early autumn may have an output per day double or even treble that of the same machine working in wet soils in winter. And, seeing that there will be provision for supporting equipment, and of the order of five operators on site, savings are substantial. The subject of trenching leads on to pipe size - one tends to think that bigger must be better, but this is not so. In removing excess soil water, fine particles enter the pipe. There must be a good flow of water through the pipes to carry these ‘fines’ away. Too big a pipe and the flow of water is sluggish and ‘fines’ build up, in effect reducing the
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hen times are hard, one activity that often gets put aside is attention to
size of the pipe.
For optimum results, the pipes should fit snugly in the trenches; for example an 80mm pipe would fit into a trench cut 97mm wide.
The latent force in the soil reduces the trench width almost immediately it has been excavated.
In turn, this degree of
precision leads to savings in the backfilling aggregates. Placing gravels and sands in narrow trenches, without contaminating the surface, has been one of the slowest parts of the drainage activity. But now, there are machines, such as the Fast-Flow range of backfilling hoppers, that enables placement of these materials at speeds of 5-6 mph. Minimum disruption to the playing surface must be a high priority, for it is costly to undertake repairs, re-turfing and collecting spilled soil. This entails using modern, dedicated sportsturf drainage machinery, rather than something cheap and cheerful, or even doing it by hand.
Secondary drainage schemes are usually superimposed over the primary piped system to enhance the speed of drainage. For years, sand slitting was the only option. 50mm wide trenches were dug 250-300mm deep, then backfilled with gravel and topped with sand or rootzone.
These slits worked well, but
Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Draining, Gravel Banding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
Mobile: 07860 259692
Tel: 01284 735105 Email:
peter@buryturfcare.com www.buryturfcare.com
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation
Drainage
Hard times? Need drainage? Cut costs, don’t cut corners
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