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Yes mate. Great tool I think. Mind you I wouldn't be doing the whole square with it at a time. Mainly for overseeding in season.
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Green is not necessarily beautiful.
A roller made of a member of the dock family. Surely it would be better to get a sarrel roller. 
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Can you just is the longest sentence in the world !!!!!!!
Hi Barry if i get my new one in a months time you can have the old one its missing a few tines but will do you a job. Ian
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I think it is either sorrel or sarrel?
Barry, I appreciate you have seeding in mind but I'd love to know definitively how useful they are as a whole of square winter 'aeration' technique. 2 winters ago I reckon I did 8 or 10 passes over the whole square. Pitches were very good that year. Last year I didn't use it and I'm sure we had a crust developing on occasions. That's basically why I'm using it now, despite the health warnings.
Barry, I appreciate you have seeding in mind but I'd love to know definitively how useful they are as a whole of square winter 'aeration' technique. 2 winters ago I reckon I did 8 or 10 passes over the whole square. Pitches were very good that year. Last year I didn't use it and I'm sure we had a crust developing on occasions. That's basically why I'm using it now, despite the health warnings.
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Don't know mate.
I've only used one for overseeding and that was the one I had on my autorake before it fell to bits, roller that is, not the autorake.
I've only used one for overseeding and that was the one I had on my autorake before it fell to bits, roller that is, not the autorake.
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Of course the grass looks good. The sun is shining.
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Barry, like you would like a sorrel roller but cant afford one. So have just brought a pair of spike shoe attachments, 2 inch spikes. Well i do enough mileage cutting and brushing, so i thought i could kill 2 birds with one stone. Will try tomorrow, nothing to lose except the £10 they cost, oh and also my pride.
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Know what you mean lads they are a great puece if eqipment i use all the time during season on wkts and end of season as they say put your back in it
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Mark, heh heh guvnor. I've tried that , nearly broke my effing leg and ankle.Good luck son.
That's the thing Gary. Even before the Sisis spike reel fell apart, the wheels close up most of the holes you create.
That's the thing Gary. Even before the Sisis spike reel fell apart, the wheels close up most of the holes you create.
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Barry you have just given me the idea of looking into replacing the pneumatic tyres on my Sissis rotarake for solid spiked ones. Not only would solve the problem of closing some holes it would actually increase the # per sq. inch.
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Barry I have a 30 inch Pattison pedestrian sarrell/sorrell roller a great piece of kit but very hard work. When repairing used tracks during the season I reckon it's invaluable no tyre or wheel marks creates a great seed bed and breaks the surface, tracks come back quickly. I've seen many similar tools being used with the transport roller down and just pricking the surface, the operators need to get their back and legs into it, weighted roller above the spiked roller hard work but great results, these days I only manage one track per day funny how sorrell is an anagram of rollers.
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I'm only thinking if using it for repairing and reseeding a used track and ends.
Far too old to do more than that with it.
It needs a little motor on the side with a weight on top, then it would be even better!
Far too old to do more than that with it.
It needs a little motor on the side with a weight on top, then it would be even better!
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For information, it is commonly spelt sarrel or sorrel.
Paul - I don't rate the FT510 attachment as it just doesn't go into the ground unless its really soft.
I use a pedestrian one on bowls and cricket all year around - in the summer for sedding and to aid water penetration and in the winter for light aeration.
Can't pretend it's not hard work though!
AB
Paul - I don't rate the FT510 attachment as it just doesn't go into the ground unless its really soft.
I use a pedestrian one on bowls and cricket all year around - in the summer for sedding and to aid water penetration and in the winter for light aeration.
Can't pretend it's not hard work though!
AB
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AB , that's the problem
I had with the Sisis reel I had. I did use it overthe whole square last March after I had sprayed and brushed out a load of miss after the bad winter. So I had to use it to create some sort of seed bed cos I had the overseed the square. It fell apart just as I finished it and of course the wheels cover up a lot if the holes anyway.
I had with the Sisis reel I had. I did use it overthe whole square last March after I had sprayed and brushed out a load of miss after the bad winter. So I had to use it to create some sort of seed bed cos I had the overseed the square. It fell apart just as I finished it and of course the wheels cover up a lot if the holes anyway.
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Barry, you sound more like the police officer in Allo Allo everyday, "I was just p1ssing by the door". :-)
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