WHITE’S WORLD Issue 267 www.thwhite.co.uk October 2016 Stepping back to the future at Fulford Heath A Case of the right plant GROUNDCAREAGRICULTURE MANAGING THE DUST AT MOONS HILL If you drive towards the Mendip village of Stoke dust control.” St Michael on the road from Cranmore, it’s quite Moons Hill is the only Mendip quarry extracting likely that you will be completely unaware of the basalt, an extremely durable and high quality massive 240-acre excavation at Moons Hill Quarry. volcanic stone which forms the basis of Wainwright’s “That’s just how we like it,” explained Andy Open, premium aggregates. The workings now extend well Wainwright’s Quarry Development, Estates and below the level of the water table so pumping is Special Projects Manager. “Ever since quarrying carried out round the clock, both to drain the lower Sowing made easy started at Moons Hill in 1891 Wainwright has always levels of the quarry and to maintain the local water made a special e ort to be good neighbours with course. Despite the presence of all this natural water, the local community. The quarry is well screened by dust control is essential both in summer and winter PLUS extensive choice of trees but we also take many other steps to minimise and it calls for some specialised kit. quality used equipment, our impact on the environment. A key part of that is Continued page 2 >> machinery and vehicles... 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Course Manager Kim Blake (left), with his Deputy Graeme Stephenson and Lee Miles of T H WHITE and the Iseki TG6490 tractor with Jacobsen MH5 trailed gang mower. wheels in front of the mower, but the Construction 01672 512328 water tanker which we use to spray Having carried out a number of trials and tractor was fi tted with Galaxy balloon Motor Group 01793 680480 stockpiles, heavy plant and roads to demonstrations Nick proposed a Case IH BACK TO THE FUTURE AT tyres and hardly impacts the turf.” Energy, Fire & Security 01380 726656 keep the dust down. As the quarry has Magnum 340 tractor. At around 16 Kim went for it and ordered the Iseki/ expanded it became obvious that we tonnes it had the weight we were looking Jacobsen combination, a decision which Online Store www.thwhitestore.co.uk needed a much larger tanker and a beefy for to ensure safe operation around the FULFORD HEATH GOLF CLUB three months on he has no cause to Machinery Imports 01264 811260 tractor to pull it – and stop it! quarry with a 4,000 gallon tanker, and by When Kim Blake, Course Manager directly against modern practice. regret: “Our requirement was quite unusual choosing the base model we could have at Fulford Heath Golf Club on the To help his decision, Kim contacted “Many people I know in the business www.thwhite.co.uk in that we needed a heavy and powerful a thoroughly tried and tested tractor with southern fringe of Birmingham, was local rep Lee Miles of T H WHITE’s thought I was crazy going back to this [email protected] tractor, but it had to be relatively simple great driver comfort but few potential faced with renewing his mowing Redditch branch to arrange a old style of mowing and I know it’s not © T H WHITE Group 2016 E&OE and ultra-reliable for the tough quarry complications. It also had PowerShift equipment, he had the courage to take demonstration of a new Iseki tractor and a choice that would work for everyone, Nursteed Road Devizes Wilts SN10 3EA environment. We defi nitely didn’t want transmission, making it easier and safer to a radical step backwards. a Jacobsen MH5 trailed mower. but for Fulford Heath it has proved to be a tractor full of complicated electronics use on the gradients around the quarry.” “For about the last 30 years the perfect solution. It has reduced the and we just didn’t need most of the Bob then worked closely with increasingly sophisticated self-propelled number of engines on site that have to GROUP gadgets and gizmos now fi tted to many Hi-Spec tankers to design and build a mowers have been the machinery of be maintained and I reckon it will save agricultural tractors.” bespoke 4,000 gallon water tanker with choice at many golf courses,” he says. the Club around £20,000 over fi ve years MEET US AT... Andy put a specifi cation out to a steering on the rear wheels to make it “But when we needed new machinery in depreciation and running costs. Saltex NEC Birmingham, 2-3 November, number of local suppliers to see what highly manoeuvrable and reduce tyre I had to think long and hard about the “Since we have had the mower we Stand A040 GROUNDCARE recommendations they would make. wear on the abrasive quarry surfaces. best way to use our money. I knew we have practised various techniques and couldn’t do without a tractor as we need Futurescape Sandown Park Racecourse, “Some of them took the easy route “The tanker is fi tted with a high I believe the fi nish is now on a par with Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, and were just keen to sell us a standard pressure spray bar which we use for one to pull a trailed PTO-driven semi- a self-propelled mower... in fact, when 15 November MACHINERY IMPORTS product, but what set T H WHITE apart cleaning the tarmac roads on-site as well rough mower that we purchased two we had a visit from our agronomist he as the local public roads. In summer it’s years ago. We also needed a tractor with “The tractor we chose was a fully- said the fi nish couldn’t be faulted and an additional 10hp. T H WHITE Country Stores highly e ective at damping down dust specifi ed Iseki TG6490 IQ, It’s in a the club members have given us many WINTER WARMERS and in winter we will use it to clean o “The tractor we had was a 22 year old di erent world from our old tractor compliments too. 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