PITCH & LINE MARKERS
IMPACT ready-to-use paint can be sued straight from its container – no measuring , mixing or mess !’
used for Rigby Taylor ’ s award-winning ready-mixed Impact paint . Impact may cost more per container , but less paint is used per pitch and the lines are brighter and longer-lasting lines so , on an actual line-for-line basis , the cost per pitch is much lower .”
Impact is the ideal paint partner to the TMR Pro , which features the latest GPS technology with RTK receiver and antenna that connects with global satellites and mobile network connections . A supplied tablet records the input of pitch line dimensions and multiple pitches via an App and , once stored , the lines are never lost , even if they disappear because a pitch is not used for any length of time .
Launched initially for marking football pitches ( all sizes ) and rugby union and league pitches , the TMR Pro can now download over 50 sports surfaces via the App including multi-lane athletic tracks , American football and Gaelic pitches , tennis , cricket , lacrosse , field hockey and even Quiddich ! The robot can also mark letters and numbers , exhibition and event markings and car parking grids .
Using a Tiny Robot line marker allows other tasks to be undertaken simultaneously
Such flexibility is also attractive to schools , colleges and universities that have larges number of pitches that require different markings .
Hartpury University and Hartpury College ’ s purchase of the Tiny Pro , fully autonomous , robot has proved to be a “ big time saver ” for the grounds team according to Grounds and Sports Maintenance Manager Matthew Newman . The team oversee the grounds maintenance of the facility ’ s multimillion-pound outdoor sports facilities used by students , as well as Premiership RFU side
Gloucester Rugby , Gloucester-Hartpury Women ’ s RFC , Hartpury University RFC and the university football club .
Matthew manages three grounds care teams that work across the Gloucesterbased campus . There are eight natural turf and two 3G artificial sports pitches , a short game area and golf green .
“ There ’ s probably not a single day when a line marker is not being used by my team at the college ,” Matthew explains . “ We normally pitch prep on a Monday and Tuesday for university and college mid-week fixtures on a Wednesday , Gloucester Rugby trains on the same day , Thursday is a repair day and on Friday we prep for the weekend fixtures . Before we invested in the Tiny Pro it would normally have taken two members of staff one and a half hours to each mark a pitch , an operation that now takes just 20 minutes - within mm accuracy … and frees up two members of staff for other tasks .
Championship league club Preston North End FC also identified the Tiny robot as a line marking game changer . Head Groundsman Pete Ashworth saw that
managing the line marking operation across their extended training ground sites created a time management problem and saw a potential solution when he was introduced to the robotic Tiny Sport . Following demonstrations of the robot , he advised the club that it would be a cost-effective time saver for the grounds team .
GroundskeepingJournal . co . uk | May 2022
27 ‘ A supplied tablet records line input dimensions and stores all for future use