{"id":993,"date":"2025-11-10T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=993"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:40:18","slug":"trentham-gcs-wiedenmann-super-600-leads-way-for-rough-management-scarification-and-leaf-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/trentham-gcs-wiedenmann-super-600-leads-way-for-rough-management-scarification-and-leaf-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Trentham GC\u2019s Wiedenmann Super 600 leads way for rough management, scarification and leaf collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s no question that the Wiedenmann Super 600 Trentham Golf Club, near Stoke-on-Trent, purchased fifteen months ago is their most versatile piece of kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Super 600 sits at the heart of the club\u2019s maintenance programme, tackling three key annual operations across the course: rough management, scarifying, and leaf collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven if you were to offer task-specific machines, I\u2019d still say the Super 600 is the best at scarifying, the best at rough management, and the best at leaf collection,\u201d said Course Manager Ed Stant. \u201cIt\u2019s so well engineered that I wouldn\u2019t even think about a competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trentham had run a Super 500 for ten years before upgrading. A Super 600 supplied by Wiedenmann dealer, Turner Groundscare, instantly brought increased capacity \u2014 a 4,500-litre hopper compared with the previous 2,500 litres \u2014 and the new vigour of an upgraded model, with many of the options now standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBeing a parkland course, our rough can get quite thick,\u201d said Ed. \u201cWe want to encourage finer grasses, so we aim to cut and collect before nutrients go back into the soil. It\u2019s always a balance \u2014 we don\u2019t want the course to look too open, especially ahead of big events \u2014 so we manage it in stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith flail blades on the Super 600, we\u2019ll start in mid to late summer, taking the rough down gradually rather than topping it in one go. We might halve the height to maintain appearance and playability, then take it right down again in late August or September, just before we scarify the fairways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe changeout the blades on the machine and then usually start scarifying in early autumn once the competition diary allows \u2014 typically early October \u2014 and it takes about ten to fourteen days. We have a lot of ground to cover. It results in an incredibly neat, tidy finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScarifying fairways is normally a once-a-year operation, but if conditions allow, we may choose to go again in spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the conditions change, we switch to leaf collection. We blow as many leaves as we can to the boundaries, but some always collect under trees. The Super 600 clears them easily, and with its high-tip facility up past two metres, we can tip onto vertical piles at our two composting areas. It\u2019s really efficient \u2014 the piles grow taller instead of wider, so we save space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trentham has another piece of Wiedenmann kit \u2014 a Terra Spike GXi8 HD deep aerator. The championship course upgraded a 14-year-old XP6 for the new model around the same time as they bought the Super 600. \u201cThe GXi8 HD is so clean, so smooth, and so fast,\u201d said Ed. \u201cWe use it everywhere \u2014 fairways, approaches, greens, walkways, traffic areas.  I wouldn\u2019t be without our Wiedenmanns, they\u2019re unrivalled in what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no question that the Wiedenmann Super 600 Trentham Golf Club, near Stoke-on-Trent, purchased fifteen months ago is their most versatile piece of kit. The Super 600 sits at the heart of the club\u2019s maintenance programme, tackling three key annual operations across the course: rough management, scarifying, and leaf collection. \u201cEven if you were to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[579,178,584,146,422,48,581,133,583,580,10,277,73,578,577,585,120,582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}