cambridge - LJN Blog Posts - Landscape Juice Network2024-03-29T14:40:58Zhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/cambridgeCambridge United Choose Dennis to Maintain High Standardshttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/cambridge-united-choose-dennis-to-maintain-high-standards2014-10-14T13:27:58.000Z2014-10-14T13:27:58.000ZFusion Mediahttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/FusionMedia<div><p>Following the recent promotion from the Conference Premier to the Football League for the first time in nine years, Cambridge United FC have purchased a Dennis G860 professional mower complete with a range of interchangeable cassettes to maintain the high standards set by award winning head groundsman Ian Darler.</p><p>Following a recommendation from friend Gary Kemp, who is head groundsman at Norwich City that he should look at the Dennis machine, Ian took the decision to organise a demonstration.</p><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314193319?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="450" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314193319?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="450" class="align-left"/></a>“I’d been using a different manufacturer and machine for the past 20 years, but the weight of it was causing compaction issues and actually turned out to be double the weight of the Dennis G860,” explained Ian. “Gary knew I was on the look-out for a new mower and said that you won’t get better than Dennis and the G860. It’s used by the majority of groundsman in this country so we can’t all be wrong.”</p><p>After a career spanning 35 years and winning numerous groundsmanship awards whilst at Cambridge, Ian knows that presentation will be paramount now that the club has won promotion back to the Football League. “The Dennis machines have always been renowned for the quality of the stripes that they produce along with the flexibility that the interchangeable cassette system offers – something else that interested me as it enables me to carry out numerous tasks using just one machine – perfect for us here at Cambridge.”</p><p>Ian opted for the 8-blade cutting cylinder cassette for his new Dennis G860 because of the volume of cutting required along with the verti-cutter cassette, which according to Ian, used once a week will control thatch during the playing season. “Presentation is very important to me and using the G860 means I won’t have any worries. It’s solid, well-balanced, but light weight, and achieves excellent results.”</p><p>The Dennis G860 has six quick changeover cassette options giving ultimate flexibility and a single power unit for many day-to-day maintenance tasks including scarifying, verti-cutting, brushing, spiking and slitting as well as cutting. This versatility coupled with low ground pressure, at just 166kgs, and manoeuvrability makes the G860 the first choice for many top sporting venues around the world including World Cup Finals and European Championships.</p><p>“From the first time I spoke to Dennis to enquire about their mowers to today when they delivered it; I’ve received a first class service. It’s been a long time coming getting this machine due to funding but I couldn’t be happier,” said Ian.</p><p>For further information or a no obligation demonstration, please contact Dennis 01332 824 777 or visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dennisuk.com">www.dennisuk.com</a></p><p>For more news, reviews and insightful views, you can follow Dennis on Twitter @DennisMowers and like the company’s Facebook page – <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/DennisMowersUK.You">www.facebook.com/DennisMowersUK.You</a> can also view the latest Dennis videos by visiting <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/DennisMowers">www.youtube.com/DennisMowers</a></p></div>Bowcom Line Marker Gets a First at Cambridge Collegehttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/bowcom-line-marker-gets-a-first-at-cambridge-college2013-07-09T12:27:10.000Z2013-07-09T12:27:10.000ZFusion Mediahttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/FusionMedia<div><p>Pembroke College Head Groundsman Trevor Munns has chosen a Bowcom GMX machine for all line marking at the college sports ground.</p><p>The 12-acre sports ground at Pembroke College, Cambridge University’s third oldest seat of learning, provides year round sport to students and a number of outside interests, including a prominent local football club, who use the facilities for pre-season training.</p><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314123965?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="350" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314123965?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350" class="align-left"/></a>Upkeep is a testing job, especially as it is carried out almost single-handedly by Trevor, who has been Head Groundsman at the college for 24 years. An item of equipment he has recently switched to has made one aspect of his work - line marking - that bit easier.</p><p>As well as having to keep the two football and rugby pitches in his charge efficiently marked over the winter months, Trevor’s biggest marking demand is tennis. There are eight grass courts at the Pembroke grounds in regular use throughout the summer and he regularly uses his Bowcom GMX line marker to get them ‘match fit’ for a local Tennis Club, who plays there twice weekly.</p><p>A combination of the revolutionary Bowcom GMX and Bowgrass Supreme Plus paint offers the ultimate in precision line marking application; the GMX incorporates a number of comprehensive, flexible spray options including fully adjustable line width, central or off-set spraying, protected, quick release spray head assembly, optional twin jet nozzle and optional side marking arm.</p><p>Trevor now uses Bowcom’s battery-powered spray applicator exclusively for all marking jobs, winter and summer.</p><p>“Apart from being comfortable and easy to use, there are three things I particularly like about the GMX line marker,” said Trevor.</p><p>“Keeping it clean is very easy. All you have to do is run a little water, stored in a separate tank on the sprayer, through it after use, that’s all. It couldn’t be easier, and it’s put away, with no paint in the pipework, clean in no time at all.</p><p>“I like the fact that you can readily switch the battery off so that there’s no loss of charge when not actually marking. The simplicity of width adjustment means that for the football and rugby pitches I can ensure lines are highly visible even when the elements are against you. The paint quality means I certainly don’t have to re-mark pitches as often as I used to.”</p><p>The Bowcom GMX precision line marker with adjustable operator handle and 25-litre paint tank comes with a high capacity battery and easy access charger.</p><p>Bowcom products are available exclusively throughout the United Kingdom from Sherriff Amenity. For further information, please contact Sherriff Amenity on 01638 721 888 or email info@sherriff-amenity.com</p><p>For more news and insightful views, you can follow Sherriff Amenity on Twitter @SherriffAmenity.</p></div>No Words of Wisdom on Landscaping, Just a Funny Old Week.https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/no-words-of-wisdom-on2010-01-23T11:00:46.000Z2010-01-23T11:00:46.000ZThe Perfumed Gardenhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/ThePerfumedGarden<div>Jill thinks I have an addictive personality. That is not the case where people become addicted to my personality but I become addicted to the things I do. She also says it runs in my family. I have to agree, my family are slightly mad, lovely, but not quite normal in my eyes. My father became addicted to running at the age of 60 and it would be quicker to say what my elder sister hasn’t become addicted to. And I realise I have just become addicted to using the word addicted.Now I have cured my obsession (thank you thesaurus) with Freecell - well for 2 and a half weeks – I believe writing a blog is becoming the next compulsion (thesaurus again). I have started to take notes, (which is another one of my fathers traits) of the things that happen during the week so I don’t forget to include in my Saturday morning ramble. The problem here is if I turn all the notes into sentences and paragraphs, anyone daft enough to be reading this will be asleep by the time I get onto Tuesdays antics.<p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314145761?profile=original" alt=""/></p>I’ve decided I hate Ornamental Quince. It has a lovely flower but I had to dig one up on Monday so we I can transform a front garden in Cambridge. The roots are a nightmare and since there was no room to swing a mattock, let alone the proverbial cat, it took me most of the morning to remove it.I was also put into a state of shock by meeting a nice traffic warden. Normally in Cambridge they don’t give you a chance but this guy was really nice. It is chaotic in the road where we are working which is a dead end and with two other building projects going next door but this man understood the parking problems and that everyone had to do their job.As I’m coming up to Tuesday, I feel your eyes must be getting a bit weary so I will write a separate article on the garden when it is completed with pretty pictures and all.I was happy on Tuesday night to return to playing football, another infatuation or as I look at it, a passion. I haven’t been for a kick around with the boys since before Christmas and I did enjoy it.Tuesday’s football is ‘veterans’ night with a few youngsters thrown in to keep us on our toes. We play the occasional game but it’s more of a social thing. I also play on Saturdays for Saffron Walden Town A team which is a lot of youngsters with a couple of oldies thrown in. We’re sitting at the top of the table at the moment and we’ve got our first game of the New Year this afternoon. Last night I didn’t really fancy it but just thinking about it now I’m getting rather excited – I might mature one day and hang up my boots.Jill made her local journalism debut during the week as she was asked to write a regular piece for a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.greatchishill.org.uk/subpages/gardening.html" target="_blank">Great Chishill village web site</a>. This should be a great way of advertising and it will be interesting to see if any extra business comes from it.Mrs Cranwells funeral was on Thursday so a no work day. I regard funerals to be somewhere to celebrate a person’s life and not to be sad which is easier to do if you’re not closely related to the person who’s died. Mrs Cranwell, 99 years old, star of Radio Cambridgeshire, village and local area historian and a lover of nature and old ways was a remarkable person and I wish more people were like her today. How the world changes. As well as the above and many other things, she was also Patron to the Long Bow Society. At the end of the funeral, three archers sent three volleys of arrows into the sky across where she had been laid to rest with her husband into a meadow. To me, it felt like her soul was being sent across the village just to keep an eye on everything. It is something I will never forget.I’ve got so much more to write but I can’t follow that.</div>