Week 10 I spent part of the week with Steve Dunn down near Pershore, England. We are doing demos at at Barenbrug day. We brought numerous machines down including three different types of Vredo seeders, so that people could see them. With Barenbrug being a seed company it worked out well to show off both [...]
The new Koro® TopDrain® 1000 is available now from Campey Turf Care Systems and has been specifically designed for sports pitches and golf course fairways. The TopDrain® 1000 model joins the successful 1500 machine that harnessed the unique function of trenching, removing spoil, injecting sand and re-compacting the surface all in one operation. It also [...]
Week 9 I started this week off with Ben Taylor, we went to Charterhouse School where I used a root pruner for the first time. We also made a stop in Lewes at Lewes Golf Club, one of the few courses I have been to that had fescue greens. It also had some very nice [...]
Week 8 I spent this week with Ben Taylor in the South part of England. We began our first day going to golf clubs around where he lives, like East Sussex National. He took me to see Beachy Head, one of the highest cliffs on the south coast of England. We took a fairy to [...]
Week 7 I spent the week working around the yard helping with lots of different jobs, such as fixing tires for machines, organizing parts for the parts shop, and even getting to shrink wrap some machines before they went out for delivery. For the weekend, I got a train down to London. I spent the [...]
Week 6 This past week I spent my time in France with Lee Morgado, we flew into Toulouse where we met up with Christine from Hydraparts and drove down to Bordeaux where we had some demos to do. The first demo we had was at a city sports field complex. We were demonstrating the Koro [...]
An Air Inject Air2G2 supplied by Campey Turf Care Systems has helped transform the greens at Swords Golf Club, Co Dublin, Ireland, with previous methods proving ineffective because of stones in the greens. The initial pay and play nine-hole course was founded in 1992, and the sand based greens that offer little drainage below the [...]
Week 5 I started the week off in Brussels, Belgium where I met up with Dave Stonier and Ben Taylor for the last part of the European Pitch Renovation Tour. In Brussels, we were working at Anderlecht Football Clubs training ground home of the Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht. We did most of the pitch in [...]
Week 3 This week I was up in Scotland, at Greenock Morton Football Club, with Richard Haywood and Ethan Yates, here I took part in my first football pitch renovation. We started sat things up Monday for the Tuesday start of the renovation. It was a three day open house style renovation that allowed people [...]
Week 3 I spent the weekend in Anglesey, North Wales with Ian Campbell where he has a caravan spot at. Ian and his wife took me around the island to different locations and showed me some very pretty scenery. They took me to the Menai Bridge, which was one of the world’s first iron suspension [...]
