DEEP AERATION CURES
WATERLOGGING LONG TERM
Heavy downpours of rain on hammers a hollow probe one metre - similar to “breathing” underground.
compacted grass areas on sports into the soil using a JCB road breaker The 1½” probe holes created by the
pitches, bowling greens, golf courses gun (this is because the ground is Terralift machine are backfilled
and amenity areas can leave standing usually so compact at depth that it with aggregate to provide a semi
water, rendering them unusable and needs this hammer to break through). permanent aeration/ventilation shaft,
stopping play. The action of normal Once the probe has reached one metre helping to keep the whole aeration
aeration, use of machines and foot depth, compressed air is released up process working. The top 1” should
traffic over time can leave areas to a maximum of 20Bar (280psi), be topped with the usual top dressing
compacted and panning occurs, the Terralift being the only machine to encourage grass growth over the
causing poor drainage and depriving using such high air pressure, which probe holes. The Terrain Aeration
grass roots of oxygen and nutrients. is needed to fracture and fissure the process is ecologically sound, there is
Sports turf specialists Terrain soil. The probe is withdrawn and the no mess and once the pitch or green
Aeration have been providing a long- process repeated using two-metre has been given a light mow it’s ready
term solution to this for over twenty centre spacings on a staggered grid for play to resume.
five years, using one- metre deep pattern - this means that each shot penetration of the playing surface. interconnects with the previous ones. The Terrain Aeration Terralift On the tail end of the air blast, dried machine not only solves the immediate seaweed is injected which sticks to compaction problem, the process has the walls of the fractures and fissures a beneficial effect that lasts many and, over time, expands and contracts years. It works like this. The Terralift with the moisture content in the soil
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