{"id":558,"date":"2021-10-12T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=558"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:06:08","slug":"all-year-round-aeration-for-edinburghs-duddingston-gc-with-gxi8-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/all-year-round-aeration-for-edinburghs-duddingston-gc-with-gxi8-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"All year-round aeration for Edinburgh’s Duddingston GC with GXi8 HD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Head Greenkeeper, John Guthrie at Edinburgh\u2019s Duddingston Golf Club favours the little and often approach to aeration. Maintaining healthy surfaces is key for the parkland club which nestles below Edinburgh\u2019s iconic Arthur\u2019s Seat and has a history dating over 125 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purchase of a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD deep aerator in May, from Scottish dealer, Fairways GM at Kinross, was essential to his strategy, and five months\u2019 hence, he continues to be really pleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s making a big difference; I knew the GXi8 would be good, but I didn\u2019t factor quite as quick or as neat. Easily all 18 greens can be done before 1.00 pm, so about a hectare\u2019s worth in total. In the past, aeration tied up three people. we would have had someone following on with a roller and another person tidying up behind. The Wiedenmann is so clean, you don\u2019t always have to roll at the back if you set it up properly. Two of the team can be free to do other tasks; resource wise, that is a significant benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince May, we\u2019ve taken a discrete approach, tining down on the greens to 100-150 mm and tees to 200 mm, all with 12 mm tines, experimenting with heave at 5\u00b0 occasionally. From November, we switch to 20 mm tines and might go 250 mm on the greens if conditions allow, possibly again with a little amount of heave. The fairways, too, will get the full depth and the bigger tine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA good machine deserves its praise.  H&S on the machine is first rate. It really is smooth, and the operator doesn\u2019t leave the cab feeling they\u2019ve had a full body work out.  Also, smoothness means the Terra Spike is surprisingly quiet, not too noisy for members playing nearby, but mostly we can be done before they get anywhere close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHopefully, we\u2019re out all 12 months a year, weather permitting, and target a few choice areas with extra runs when there\u2019s time available.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Membership at Duddingston GC has increased over lock down but tee times have remained constant for John and his team of five. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing for it but to keep doing your best and the whole team has done really well, even now new members are still joining.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Marshall, Area Sales Manager at Fairways GM said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe GXi8 was absolutely the right fit for John and his team.  It paired well with their existing Kubota L4240 tractor and for his site it\u2019s got access-all-areas status.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head Greenkeeper, John Guthrie at Edinburgh\u2019s Duddingston Golf Club favours the little and often approach to aeration. Maintaining healthy surfaces is key for the parkland club which nestles below Edinburgh\u2019s iconic Arthur\u2019s Seat and has a history dating over 125 years. The purchase of a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD deep aerator in May, from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559,"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\/558"}],"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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}