Last Wednesday -a rare fine day- I had to go along with my wife Anne who had an appointment at LGI for a scan, so was unable to start work till after lunch. I went along to my good friend Henry's ground at Farsley to scarify his square.
When I take on the Autumn work I always ask the club to cut the square down to playing height prior to my arrival so as not to be wasting time and them paying me for a job that they can quite easily do.
The first job is to scarify with the Sisis RR600 I don't fit the box -as it can be the slowest process- so who ever is collecting with the Sisis ARR (fitted with the brush) is not constantly catching up to me.
Henry has a Sisis Rota Rake with a brush fit so the job was completed quicker than normal with two machine operating simultaneously.
Come on Ben quick march!
Good progress.
Steady on. No Dancing!
You have to work quick or the following machine will catch you up at this pace.
Henry tipping the rubbish into the trailer.
Farsley C C the home club of Raymond Illingworth who was England Skipper when they brought the Ashes back from Australia in 1970-71. He is one of a few to have taken 2,000 wickets and scored 20,000 first class runs. Top Effort!
We were very lucky to have John Cockshot Present to take some photos and make the tea.
Thanks John best cup of tea for ages.
Henry and Ben at tea time.
Henry's quick way to empty the trailer.
We got finished and left Henry to do the seeding, fertilising and top dressing on his own when he could do it in his own way with no pressure from us.
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Thursday the 18th September was too wet to work in the morning, I cant remember what I did
-Senior moment-
How ever later in the day I went off on my own to scarify Pudsey Congs 3rd and 4th team ground at Fulneck School. When I arrived Graham who looks after the square asked if I could scarify to 12 mm which as you can imagine brings out a lot of material.
Bigger job than I had thought!
A lot of Rubbish coming out of this one.
Machine working well.
Graham getting to grips with the brush. He told me that I "should have had the box on the scarifier", to which I "replied but that will leave you with nothing to do".
Looking better.
Getting there.
Don't speak too soon this is what happened and you guessed it right from the middle of the machine.
So the final few runs had a groove missing from the middle.
My old pal Dom arrived, he used to play down at Kirkstall a few years ago, he is now the 3rd team skipper at Congs. I am not sure just what he thought about me doing this to his beloved square.
More runs next season Dom promise.
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This is how dark it was when we had finished.
Good Night.
Hodgy
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