Terrain Aeration

Launch of our Total Turf Aeration System

"In 1987, for the first time in their lives [the greens], I put the Vertidrain through the greens this was after the October hurricane. I used 1” tines at full depth (14”) and the soil just smeared, there was no chance to ‘shatter and fracture’ to create some structure."

Golf Consultant, Kevin Munt was the course manager at the Wentworth Club in the late 1980s and is describing on his blog, the challenge of breaking through a deep pan layer on the greens on the famous West 'Burma Road' Course - these conditions existed for him, those who preceded him and those who subsequently took over until present day.

Today, using our technology, any putting green, football pitch, bowling rink or indeed any natural grass playing surface, can benefit from treatment at depths that conventional specialist equipment cannot achieve.

Kickstarting baked hard sports pitches after drought

We have seen a long period of dry weather with very little rain or moisture in the South and East of England which has meant that local authorities have been forced to cancel football matches following the late summer drought as the ground is too compact.

It will require only a modest level of sustained rainfall to render sports pitches unplayable. This is because the water cannot percolate down and reach the drainage system. Aeration is the solution - but penetration is not easily achieved by many ‘top surface’ machines.

Decompaction of sports turf and root-zones across Europe

We have the machinery and we will travel to most of mainland Europe to assist turf and tree care professionals with the aeration of compacted soil on sports surfaces, including rugby and football pitches, golf courses, tennis courts and bowling greens.

We can also treat the root-zone areas of fruit orchards and vineyards to a depth of one metre by injecting compressed air under high pressure to break up soil pans or to relieve poor drainage.

If you would like more details then please email us

Drain wet ground and alleviate the effects of summer drought.

The Met Office say that the UK is on course for a possible heatwave with a hot and dry summer saying that it will be "warmer than average temperatures and near or below-average rainfall."

The topic of climate change is constantly in the news as water becomes scarce. It is time for every gardener and lawn owner, groundsman or greenkeeper should start planning an alternative strategy than just pump unnecessary amounts of water into the ground.

Terrain Aeration in South Wales

We will be despatching a team into South Wales in the week beginning 4th May 2009.

If you have a need for our de-compaction service treating turf or tree roots with compressed air to a depth of one metre then please email us asap.

De-compacting a public football pitch

By fracturing the soil with compressed air, our main aim is to re-instate a 'two way street' by removing the 'road block' of compaction thus allowing water and nutrients to flow and at the same time allowing the essential air to circulate.

There are so many positives that come out of our rootzone treatments that it is difficult to name them all, or perhaps even put them into any kind of order of importance; I suppose it depends on the use of the ground we are treating and the objectives of the management team that have called us in to respond to their specific problem.

One of the greatest joys for Terrain Aeration is probably being able to ease a problem in community sports pitches, where local young people come to play and train, but are often curtailed because, due to a mixture of overuse, lack of money to do maintenance or poor historical rootzone structure, football or rugby is often called off when surfaces become unplayable.

Turf aeration services in the Republic of Ireland

We are travelling out to County Waterford in the republic of Ireland and then on up to Northern Ireland in April.

If you are considering aeration on your sports pitches or golf course using compressed air and you would like to discuss what we can do then please get in touch.

If we can arrange further work around this time then the travelling costs will be shared and thus allow us to improve on the individual prices for each client.

Please telephone and ask for Lynda or drop us an email.

relieving compaction in sports turf

Overcoming the challenges of relieving compaction in sports turf during the playing season is just one of the problems that under pressure groundsmen and turf care professionals are having to deal with.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council are no different and had a need to relieve compaction in four winter sports pitches.

Russell Norton, Technical Manager of the Green Care Section, (part of the Directorate of Urban Environment Management Division) called in our Airforce Terralift machine so that compressed air could be injected below the normal depth of grass root zone and into the the hard pan where normal turf aeration machines such as verti drain or slitters could not work.

The decision to the Terralift machine came after a test was carried out between our Terralift machinery and two other companies who carried out rotodrain and verti draining at Dudley Wood Playing Fields.

The pitches are all used equally by local clubs have the same subsoil of pit spoil and heavy clay. As a result, all three of the pitches on the site suffered with poor drainage due to compaction and a hard pan layer.

The test was an ideal opportunity to compare the three different aeration methods and Terrain Aeration's results came out favourable.

Russell Norton said “The Football League and Football Forum found that the pitch treated by Terrain Aeration stood up better to the rigours of play, and the company’s aeration process had a better impact on the pitch.

“During the heavy summer rains, this pitch had no problems with drainage.”