{"id":230,"date":"2019-04-23T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=230"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:04:33","slug":"championship-neighbours-speed-up-ipswich-gcs-aeration-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/championship-neighbours-speed-up-ipswich-gcs-aeration-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship neighbours speed up Ipswich GC\u2019s aeration programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last season, Graham Brumpton, Courses Manager at Ipswich\nGolf Club placed a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD top of his wish list.  Resigned to a long wait until the release of\nnew budget, he hadn\u2019t bargained on the help of neighbours, Ipswich Town FC.  Sporting in every sense of the word, they\ngenerously stepped in by loaning out their GXi8 HD on a temporary basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was really decent gesture from Ben Connell and his team,\none we will reciprocate.  It confirmed\nthe GXi8 was right. Build quality is second to none. Barely any issues just\nwear and tear.  For what it actually does\nout on the course you couldn\u2019t choose a better machine to go across your\ngreens.\u201d said Graham Brompton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, the club\u2019s Wiedenmann GXi8 HD arrived at the\nSuffolk heathland course, together with a 2.3 m wide Wiedenmann Terra Rake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had made a head start with the borrowed machine,\u201d\ncontinued Graham. \u201cFor the last seven years we\u2019d targeted a range of depths to 14\ninches (400 mm) on greens with our existing Wiedenmann XP6, accepting the trade-off\nfor going as deep was slower speed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, demand for play on both our 18 hole Purdis Heath\nand the nine hole Bixley is now pretty much constant.  Faster aeration brings flexibility. A new machine\nmeant reducing both time spent and disruption. We can get 18 holes done in two days\nstill leaving us opportunity to do a micro-tine to nip the aeration holes or a\nquick sand dress,\u201d continued Graham. \u201cWe can achieve more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now the club owns three Terra Spikes, the machine\u2019s roles have\nbeen re-assigned; the club\u2019s original 2.1 m wide XP8 bought by Graham\u2019s\npredecessor in 2003 is exclusively for full depth work down to 400 mm on fairways,\ntees and approaches.  The XP6 (2012) will\ndo similar with occasional greens\u2019 duties added while the GXi8 HD  with its \u2018access all areas\u2019 badge principally\nwill be on greens down to 250 mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, and\nhis team of eight at the James Braid designed courses, have another time saving\nmission earmarked for their new deep aerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a\nlong standing pedestrian machine used for micro-tining which takes almost a\nweek to do the greens. Switching over to multi tine heads on the GXi8 HD will\nsave us three full days.  Not only will\nwe save working time but it eliminates the business of rotating staff and\nmoving them from job to job every two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each of the\neight \u2018legs\u2019 of the GXi8 HD can hold 12 individual  5 mm tines in a multi head. With a full set of\nmulti heads the number of holes punched at the same speed goes up three\nfold.  Regular deep tining involves up to\n32 separate tines in sizes starting at 8 mm diameter  where with multi tine heads the greenkeeping\nteam can achieve up to 96 tines with 5 mm diameters.\n\nCo-ordinating the delivery and machine set up\nwas Eddie Jack, Field Sales Manager, from Ernest Doe & Sons dealers at\nNorth Walsham\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ipswich GC\u2019s greenkeeping team with their new Wiedenmann kit (l-r) Course Manger, Graham Brumpton, Mark Clements,\u00a0\u00a0 Aaron Bowen, Alan Fenwick,\u00a0 David Barton,\u00a0 Adrian Goode, Mark Goodwin, Neil Sherman and Joe Simpson\u00a0








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