The BLEC Global season opening demo tour was set in the south west of England with local distributor WT and RJ Jones, who provide sales, hire and contracting services in the south west for BLEC equipment as well as other products.

The first day of demo’s was at ST MELLION golf resort near Plymouth. The day which was organised by BIGGA Devon and Cornwall green keepers had over sixty local green keepers attend and the sun was shining the stage for the demos to begin.

Tom Jones director of  WT and RJ Jones bought along his recently purchased BLEC GKB sand filler for demonstration. This machine is a tractor mounted scarifying machine with the ability to collect the organic matter removed from fine turf areas and also inject sand into the verticut lines. On the green (which we were given to work on by the ST Mellion team) we set the sand filler working at a depth of 25mm with spacing’s of 40mm. The machine put in just under two tonnes of kiln dried sand into this area.

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Showing the BLEC Multivator and their Laser Grader on the stand, managing director Gary Mumby said: “The mood was very positive. “We saw visitors from all over the world and have set up several new distributors to handle our range of landscaping and turfcare equipment in the US.”

“As well as huge interest in the Laser Grader and Multivator we also received a high level of enquiries about our seeding machines – particularly the new close-spaced seeder launched at Harrogate.”

Gary was on the stand with wife Sue. “We had a tremendous response to our specialist sportsturf products,” she said.

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BLEC Global celebrated a successful Harrogate Week with four sportsturf machines on the stand – and the sale of one of their newly-launched close-spaced disc seeders to Cleethorpes Golf Club.

Course manager Rob Welford said: “We had a demonstration of the seeder by Tom Shinkins of BLEC and decided it was ideal for us on our semi-links course near the Humber estuary.

“We are planning an overseeding programme on several fairways and the close-spacing of the BLEC seeder will help us complete the operation efficiently.”

Cleethorpes Golf Club was built in 1894 and is exposed to high winds and salt. Rob uses Barenbrug seed mixes designed for maximum tolerance to the harsh weather conditions.

 John Stanley, chairman of greens, said: “Rob made a recommendation to the board regarding the new BLEC seeder and we knew this was a good decision, having made investment in new drainage on two fairways last year.”

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