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Off-roading anyone? 48 You CANNOT be serious! The not so serious side of the industry Whoops!! Double Entendres PICTURE the scene. Pitchcare ‘new boy’ Peter Britton attends his first official function - a visit to to the New Holland tractor plant at Basildon - with an opportunity to test drive their groundscare machines. The company are keen to highlight their unique ‘Super- Steer TM ’ system which gives an incredibly tight turning circle. So, mounting a TC27D, Peter heads off to the nearest tree to test the system. Now it’s always important to remember that the Anti Rollover protection is higher than the drivers head! Yep, you’ve guessed it. Peter brought down a huge limb thankfully without damage to himself or the tractor but definitely to his pride! QUADS, ATV’s, Utility Vehicles - call ’em what you like, they have a multitude of uses and attachments. One of the most popular is ‘off-roading’. So it was with interest that we received the following emailshot from a company in, of all places, Argentina. It makes interesting reading! “A company dedicates to the tourism it risks with activities like quads, mountain bike, cavalcades and 4x4 in own circuits that are inside the stay with which we have complete pension with drink and lodgings. Also left by the mountain range and for the forest tucumana in the Argentine Red faced, he returned the tractor to its parking place only to find CNH’s Kevin Carley showing particular interest in a ‘new model! north. We have trips that they go from the 2 to 8 days with lodgings in the different places, in hotels and I eat in camps, with which have carps, balls of sleeping, backpacks, group electricians, Cellular satelital. Visit our page web for more information: www.campodeltoral.com Or let us write to info@campodeltoral.com.ar I greet him sincerely” WE’VE all done it, said something that comes out completely wrong! Not a problem if you are sat in the pub with a few mates but a complete howler if you are speaking to millions on TV. If these don’t make you smile you need to see a doctor! Winning Post’s Stewart Machin commentating on jockey Tony McCoy’s formidable lead: “Tony has a quick look between his legs and likes what he sees.” US PGA Commentator - “One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them .... Oh my god!!!!! What have I just said?!!!!” BBC’s Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: “Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69.” Sky’s Bruce Critchley “ A 69 tastes so much better than a 70.” Metro Radio - “Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.” There are many different formulations of fertilisers and they come in many different forms. • April is a very busy week for greenkeeping staff • The show was centred around a central arena Willie Carson telling Claire Balding how jockeys prepare for a big race “They usually have four or five dreams a night about coming from different positions.” The new stand at Doncaster race course took Brough Scott’s breath away... ”My word,” he said. “Look at that magnificent erection.” Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: “Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself!” And finally, perhaps not sports related but worthy of a mention... A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn’t, turned to the weatherman and asked, “So Bob, where’s that eight inches you promised me last night?” Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!
The IOG & Google? THE Google search engine is an invaluable tool for us publishers. We can find out all sorts of interesting stuff about turf and sport. We can even source images for inclusion in the magazine and on the website. So when we wanted an Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) logo our first port of call was Google Images. As well as throwing up the obvious - Saltex, IOG Training Programmes and even good old Mike Beardall, we were rather surprised to find this colourful chap, saved as IOG! Die-hard football fans are tuning in to watch paint dry at their team’s stadium. One of the highlights on Aberdeen FC’s new pay-per view TV station is a 13minute video showing the pitch being lined. The Pittodrie turf was ripped up at the end of last DATES FOR YOUR DIARY SEPTEMBER 29th August to 11th September - US Open Tennis Championships, Flushing Meadows, New York (www.usopen.org) 6th to 8th IOG SALTEX - Windsor (www.iogsaltex.co.uk) 8th to 12th 5th Test - England v Australia - The Oval (www.cricketworld.com) 9th to 11th The Solheim Cup - Crooked Stick GC, Indianapolis, Indiana (www.solheimcup.com) We weren’t aware that an appointment to replace Pat Gossett had already been made! season as part of a £300,000 renovation programme. Now the newly-launched Red TV internet service is featuring a section showing the groundsmen painting the white lines lines on the newly-laid pitch. White lines - go for it! Forward THINKING 11th to 14th Florida Turf Grass Association (FTGA) Conference & Show, Hyatt Coconut Point, Bonita Springs, Florida (www.ftga.org) 18th to 20th GLEE, NEC Birmingham (www.gleebirmingham.com) OCTOBER 12th to 13th Golf Course Architects Conference, Fife 14th to 16th Expo 2005 - Louisville, Kentucky, USA (www.landsconference.com) 20th Land Drainage Contractors Association (LDCA) Sportsturf Drainage Day, Bisham Abbey (www.ldca.org) Heads will roll ... Decapitated Kangaroos found on Australia Golf Course THE bodies of a dozen kangaroos have been found on an Australian golf course, their heads chopped off and missing. Wildlife officials said they were baffled by the beheadings of the iconic animals on the Yarrambat Park course outside the southern city of Melbourne. The course is next to a wildlife park and kangaroos frequently graze there. “It’s strange. The heads have been taken off with a clean cut,” said Catherine Smith, an inspector with and talking cricket ... Angus Fraser reporting in the Belfast Telegraph: “As I was leaving Old Trafford I popped my head into the groundsman’s shed to congratulate Peter Marron, the head groundsman, for producing an excellent pitch. And who should I find sat among the lawnmowers, the rakes and the grass cuttings NOVEMBER 2nd to 5th Green Industry Expo (GIE), Orlando, Florida (www.gieonline.com) 9th ‘Putting science into practice in your grounds and parklands’ - STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training) 9th to 10th IOG Scotsturf - Edinburgh, Scotland (www.scotsturf.com) 12th to 16th EIMA 2005, Bologna, Italy (www.eima.it) 14th to 18th ‘Putting science into practice on your golf course’ - STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training) 21st to 25th ‘Putting science into practice on your sports grounds’ - STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training) Australia’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The groundsman at the golf course found the first few decapitated kangaroos and buried them, but when more headless animals appeared, he notified authorities. “I’ve been here 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Rod Joronen told local media. Something to do with watching two close test matches on the close circuit TV perhaps? on a bench in his whites and bowling boots having a cold beer with Marron and his staff? Yes, you guessed it, Andrew Flintoff. Football can keep its Rooneys, its Ferdinands, its Henrys, and its Mourinhos. English cricket’s future is bright as long as it has Flintoff.” 30th to 1st Dec GCSAI Sportsturf Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (www.gcsai.org/tradeshow) DECEMBER 5th to 8th NTF Conference - Blackpool (www.turfgrass.org.uk) JANUARY 2006 24th to 26th BTME & Clubhouse 2006, Harrogate (www.btmeclubhouse.org.uk) To add your event to Forward Thinking please email details to ellie@pitchcare.com and don’t forget that you can add it to Pitchcare’s online calendar yourself! Simply log on to www.pitchcare.com, select the yellow ‘calendar’ button on the left hand side of the screen and click on “Add event’ at the top of the page.
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