Educational Establishments


What’s in the Armitage Sports Centre Shed


Golf buggy


Trimax Pro Cut 210 Logica, petrol SISIS spiker Overseeder


Toro Groundmaster 228D Kubota L5030 Kubota L5040 Trailer 1 (5ft) Trailer 2 (6ft)


What’s in the Wythenshawe Shed Kubota M5700 Kubota L5030 Kawasaki 2510 (four‐wheel drive) Kawasaki 3 (four‐wheel drive) Kubota LA 1002 front loader Case tractor


Trimax Pro Cut mower Stihl 026 chainsaw Stihl 020T chainsaw Hayter Harrier Victor mower Vicon spreader Ballast rollers


Charterhouse overseeder Charterhouse sand spreader Gang mowers Flatbed trailer Metal trailer Cage trailers x 2 Tomlin mole plough Agri Fab push spreader Spray linemarkers


72 I PC JUNE/JULY 2018


In the absence of an installed network, drainage is by natural means, feeding the stream criss‐crossing the site, but the rugby pitch, sited near the river on First Field, can flood in winter, Glyn explains. “Thanks to our programme of spiking, aerating and applying twenty tonnes of sand per pitch in winter, 90% of the area drains well. But, as every pitch is played at least every week, we have to roll to provide an even playing surface, so aeration can suffer.”


“Clay underneath the Banking pitches helps water drain into the brook, whilst the water table feeds the Mersey. Pitch 1 and the Piggeries are being improved in stages to help water from them also drain into the brook. A mass of stone lying under the fields that became pitches 17 and 18 means drainage there is poor also.” Glyn, 58, came here as a junior groundsman in March 1977, after spells working in a supermarket and motor factors shop. “I always liked football, so this was a natural for me,” he recalls. Promotion to assistant foreman, then foreman followed, before his job title changed to duty manager in 1996.


In keeping with the university’s policy, his remit stretches to health and safety, fire marshalling as well as gaining a pesticides licence and attending management courses. The programme of activity keeps everyone busy. “We had seven days to turn the site round hosting different events with different requirements, but the team did an excellent job in ensuring the site was ready." Biodiversity is not without its issues at Wythenshawe. “Minks moved in when voles were relocated here from Carrington,” Mike explains, “and rabbits can dig deep holes in the pitches. Once their scent is there, they keep returning to the same spots. There is a warren in the wild area lining the right hand


side of First Field.”


That said, welcome wildlife includes barn and tawny owls, kingfishers, nesting parakeets, buzzards “attracted by the worms” and a grey heron, which obligingly rises from the trees in front of us while Mike drives us around the fields.


A claim to fame came to Glyn two years ago when ‘Jasper the Wonder Dog’ hit the national headlines by getting stuck between two drainage pipes for five days at the Wythenshawe site.


“Once he’d been found, I started digging and, more than five hours later, eventually broke through to rescue him. The University won an award for saving his life.”


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Once he’d been found, I started digging and, more than five hours later, eventually broke through to rescue him. The University won an award for saving his life


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