The KORO Recycling Dresser
improves the quality of the maintenance of grass sports fields, fairways, driving range etc.
The development of the KORO Recycling Dresser brought a new working method, aiming to save costs and
improve the quality of the maintenance grass sports fields, fairways, driving range etc. Quality
improvement in its turn will optimize playing conditions.
The annual renovation of sports fields at the end of the competition aims to get rid of playing damage and
aeration of the top layer. To carry out this work roperly, you need to supply topdressing material or
sand, and aerate intensively.
Using the KORO Recycling dresser the extra aeration and supply of
top dressing material is no longer necessary, as the Recycling dresser hauls up to 60 m3 topdressing
material from the top layer and spreads it over the field again, whereas the turf remains intact.
From the agricultural point of view, restoring the field with its own soil is preferable; the structure is the
same, and there are no problems with diseases, pests and contaminations such as weed seeds, herbicides,
eelworms etc. that could be found in the supplied topdressing material. The machine mixes the top layer.
In a mixed, homogeneous top layer there is more biological activity and the grass rooting is deeper. If the
topdressing soil is too rich, sanding can take place immediately before or after the topdressing. While
overseeding there is a mixing with the hauled up soil and topdressing material is produced there and then.
It is also possible to make the soil less rich; when the top layer subsoil is lean. By recycling dressing this
lean soil comes to the surface. We strongly advise you to analyse the top layer and determine the
operating depth before you start the recycling dressing.
Machine Performance:
While recycling dressing the top layer is loosened up by the cutting blades and coulters, producing
topdressing soil and creating ideal overseeding conditions, coupled with a very intensive aeration,
comparable to vertidrain or cultivator operation. By means of the dresser belt, the soil is applied to the
turf in whirls, so it can be optimally hauled. While dressing soil may also be collected and transported in
the dresser container, and brought to a field where more soil is needed, e.g. in goal areas.
Disturbing layers up to a depth of 20 cm are not only broken up, but also dug through and mixed; the
water retaining and water draining capacity is considerably improved. The mixing operation eliminates and
prevents thatch build-up, bio-mass and layering, provided that it is carried out regularly.
New on the Recycling dresser is the Stone Sieve Unit for sifting stones and rocks, preventing them from
reappearing on the field. Another new feature is the Pm-Cutter Roller on the machine: it pre-cuts the
coulter and cutting blade paths. Pre-cutting produces a very smooth finish in cold season as well as in
warm season grass fields. Furthermore, the cutting distance on the new models is approx. 10 cm narrower
for a smoother finish, and the newly designed segmented rear roller presses the cutting and coulter
trenches.
Together these modifications produce a very smooth finish.
Operating Procedure:
Mow and maybe sweep the sports field, after the competition has ended. Where necessary, cultivate with
the KORO Fieldtopmaker. Then carry out the recycling dressing procedure. After recycling dressing, haul
the field. Then operate the KORO Cultirol on goal areas and, where necessary, other parts of the field. Subsequently, (over)seed the entire field crossways using a seeder with roller, e.g. the Vredo. The Vredo
provides the best results; the machine's blades cut through the sod and the roller levels the top layer
using the loose soil in front of the roller.
Fairways and driving ranges must be mowed and maybe swept previously, then recycling dressed, hauled
and overseeded crossways with the Vredo, or rolled and overseeded.
In short, the KORO Recycling dresser has the following advantages:
- The machine may be used to restore a sports field with its own soil, which is desirable from an
agricultural point of view. Furthermore, the surplus soil can be transported from one part of the
field to another.
- The field is intensively aerated and an ideal overseedbed is created, whereas the field's structure
remains intact.
- Disturbing layers are dug through and broken up, so the water retaining and water draining capacity is increased.
- Through mixing a natural, homogeneous top layer is created.
- The cultivated fields are players' friendly and not too hard, thus the risk of injuries is reduced.
- The amount of weeds is considerably less than with supplied topdressing soil, thanks to recycling
dressing.
- By using the sieve unit, rocks in the top layer no longer are a problem.
Car parks are spared supplied topdressing soil and heavy lorry traffic. Problems with environmental rules regarding the supply of foreign soil are avoided.
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