{"id":300,"date":"2019-11-06T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-01-23T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:40:14","slug":"time-saving-wiedenmann-gxi8-hd-makes-valuable-difference-at-banchory-gc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/time-saving-wiedenmann-gxi8-hd-makes-valuable-difference-at-banchory-gc\/","title":{"rendered":"Time saving Wiedenmann GXi8 HD makes valuable difference at Banchory GC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three years\nago, an Aberdeenshire golf club with a keen focus on ecological, environmental\nand sustainable best practice, chose a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8  HD deep aerator. It was the first purchase\nmade by the then newly appointed course manager at Banchory GC, Richard Mullen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cAeration needed to be done quickly without\ncompromising standards.  The GXi8 meant\nwe could reduce operator time, reduce fuel and importantly use just one\nmachine,\u201d said Richard Mullen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banchory GC\nsits on the banks of the River Dee, in the heart of Royal Deeside. In the last\nyear the club has received huge plaudits for its biodiversity initiatives in\ncreating both an excellent golfing surface and a welcoming habitat for nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t\nstart off as a GEO certified golf course when the aerator arrived and we\ncertainly weren\u2019t sustainable. Now three years down the line we\u2019re getting\nbetter. The fungicide usage has been reduced by half and we haven\u2019t used any\ninsecticides at all in that time,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re like\na links course inland. We share many characteristics of a links course.  We\u2019ve sandy soil and the terrain has been\nnaturally formed.  It\u2019s maybe not the\nlargest of courses but the GXi8 goes everywhere; wall-to-wall if you like,\nfairways, greens, tees, approaches; it misses nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn any\nmodern course, golfers hate the sight of holes. Frequently it\u2019s so clean our golfers\nare unaware we\u2019ve actually been out.  If\nyour golfers aren\u2019t noticing holes then that\u2019s a huge bonus. Instantly you\u2019ve\ngot more options. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiedenmann\u2019s GXi8 HD offers a patented Advanced Tine Control\n(ATC) system. ATC controls the entry point of the tine into the turf. All\nmoving parts of the system like\nsprings and heave linkages are positioned behind covers at the front of the\nmachine away from the workings and \u2018dirt area\u2019. Wear and tear is reduced and the covers help quieten\nthe machine.  The centre of gravity being closer to the tractor makes it\nexceptionally stable.   The tines\non the GXi are nearer to the front roller ensuring a uniform job as the spiking\naction is exceptionally precise and accurate. \nConstant hole-spacing is maintained even at high fast forward speed so\nwhen following the contours of the ground the quality of work does not falter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a year\nthe GXi8 can be out about 50 times but all the while helping the soil biology\nof our site.  It\u2019s not uncommon for us to\ngive the greens two passes, using 14mm solids, one at 5mm with 75mm centres and\nthen 200mm deep with 10% heave at 50mm centres. Any oxygen can then be used by\nplants roots and soil microbes during respiration while carbon dioxide is\nreleased allowing nutrient uptake\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard, working\nwith just two other colleagues, has made huge strides which have been welcomed\nby the local community. Already in 2019 Banchory has been a finalist in\nthe 2019 Golf Environment and 2019 inspiring Aberdeenshire Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith a\nsmall team you appreciate the versatility and the ease of use of the GXi8.  There\u2019s nothing time consuming about the\nmachine at all. You can be doing fairways with 20mm tines then later in the\nsession be on greens with 8 mm tines. Switching tines is super-fast. Indeed if\nwe had a different type of deep aerator I don\u2019t think we would get half the\nthings done that we achieve at the moment. \nIt makes that big a difference to us.\u201d concluded Richard Mullen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local dealer\nFairways GM supplied the club with their Wiedenmann aerator. Banchory GC also\nhas a Wiedenmann Super 500 and Whisper Twister in its fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three years ago, an Aberdeenshire golf club with a keen focus on ecological, environmental and sustainable best practice, chose a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8  HD deep aerator. It was the first purchase made by the then newly appointed course manager at Banchory GC, Richard Mullen.  \u201cAeration needed to be done quickly without compromising standards.  The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}