Weighing in at a mere eighty kilograms and measuring just sixty centimetres wide, the latest addition to the Terrain Aeration Airforce fleet looks like it is set to blast its way to success in areas that no other soil de-compaction machine can access.
The Remote Terralift machine is light enough to be carried up and down steps and is manoeuvrable to work in the tightest of spots.
The Remote Terralift was launched at the Saltex show this year and I had a chat with Lynda and David Green.
One thing that I was interested to know, and you will understand if you look at all of the Terralift fleet, is if David loved to play with Mechano when he was a boy because the engineering skills that are needed to construct these amazing machines must have come from somewhere.
"I was never a great one for Mechano, nuts and bolts just too fiddly although they did make a mean clockwork motor for powering any movements! However there was nothing mechanical in the house and shed that did not get pulled apart and in most cases put back together in working order without too many nuts, bolts, screws, and washers left over," said David.
David didn't do Mechano, however he has an engineering background and is also a Bachelor of Science in micro biology, so it made me wonder why did he get involved with Terralift and David was short, sharp and to the point.
"What got me into soil aeration? One word answer, Lynda," David replied.
"Lynda was working for Ransomes as an assistant in the finance department but sadly was made redundant. Because of her knowledge and understanding, at least from the management point of view, of turf care machinery Lynda went to work for Colin Price who made the original Terralift machines.
"It is a rather long story but, the short of it is that Lynda convinced me that it was a great product and, we bought in as twenty five percent shareholders."
Talking to Lynda made me realise how her passion for a product as well as a total belief in its capabilities is ninety percent of what makes the Greens a formidable team. Lynda summed it up in a nutshell by saying.
"I am passionate because I have a great product."
The Remote Terralift punches between ten and twenty bar into the soil to a range of depths up to one metre as dictated by the operator.
Even though there is a significant blast of air being forced into the compacted soil there is also very little surface disruption.
All of Terrain Aeration machines are capable of injecting nutrients, water-storing polymers or mycorrhizal fungi into the soil.
Any casual visitors to your stand might have been a little puzzled because of its, shall we say, unconventional appearance. What is the reaction when someone comes up to you and asks what your machine does?
"Just a bit of surprise and a whole barrage of questions," David said. "Many of the clients have seen the pictures and read the blurb but don't really get it until the ground shudders beneath their feet.
"We have a standing joke that we have a heart defibrillator and some nitroglycerine pills in the van for the heart attacks the Greenkeepers suffer when they see the first shots rippling their hallowed turf."
I can understand that areas such as sports grounds will need your services because of the extreme amount of traffic through a season but what has been the most interesting or strangest job you have ever done?
"David said: "One of my strangest job was possibly aerating a 1000 year old oak tree that stands at Hampton Court. Watching terrified rabbits coming out of the warren beneath the tree when the air blast went in was also quite amusing. Most prestigious jobs?
"That historic palace has been the site of three separate jobs but there have also been jobs in Central London such as Marlboro House, home of the commonwealth Secretariat, some work in the Royal Parks and work for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
"Perhaps the best jobs for me personally have been some of the botanical gardens around the country. And then there are the jobs we cannot talk about."
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