A marking has always been a hefty task . With 5 cricket grounds , two Australian Football grounds , two football pitches , one rugby field and a line athletics track , it takes two people 3-4 days to manually mark the pitches .
PITCH & LINE MARKERS
Marcelin College stopped wasting time on line marking
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A marking has always been a hefty task . With 5 cricket grounds , two Australian Football grounds , two football pitches , one rugby field and a line athletics track , it takes two people 3-4 days to manually mark the pitches .
“ We used to have two manual line markers for an initial set up . We had to string out , measure , get it all accurate and squared . Mixing the paint , washing out the pumps . It was quite time consuming ,” states Kevin Davis , Head of Grounds and Gardens for Marcelin College . “ The robots made things so much easier . We can now complete it all in one day ”, he continues . the tablet , and 20 minutes to mark , so in the total we had a done pitch in 35 minutes ”, Kevin Davis explains . The ability to control your fields on the tablet , where it saves everything in the cloud , have made it easy for Kevin to keep track of all the different sports he manages .
“ We can interchange between the different sports templates with a touch of a button . I ’ m not the most technical person , but I quickly learned that the tablet actually was quite easy to use , and if I can use it , so can anybody ,” Kevin says .
Initially Kevin Davis was not so pleased with the idea of using a line marking robot . “ When I first heard about robotic line markers , I thought I ’ d be put out of a job . But it ’ s actually been the opposite I must admit . The robot has given us the chance to expand what we are doing on campus , and make sure that we get more done in a timely manner . Today while the robot is line marking , we can mow other places at the same time . This means that we are not wasting time on line marking anymore ,” explains Kevin Davis .
For the Marcelin College , located 9 miles west of Melbourne , Australia , it has meant a tremendous amount of time savings to switch from manual line marking to a TinyMobileRobot .
“ Our first football pitch , marked by a robot , took us about 15 minutes to learn to set up on
22 GroundskeepingJournal . co . uk | March / April 2025