On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:32:06 -0000, "Me Here"
wrote:

"pied piper" wrote in message
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totally defeating the object the ride on causes more compaction than u are
relieving

If that was the case why do Golf Courses do this at regular intervals......
It's called "Aeration" and has little to do with relieving compaction which
is an entirely different technique and utilises the same tractor usually.

The care of golf greens is very different indeed from the needs of
domestic lawns, TGreens have to be based, preferably, on an
extensive bed of sand-rich soil and need to be very freely draining.
They also are regularly bombarded from on high by fast-moving heavy
projectiles which semi-bury themselves into the surface. They are also
cut extremely closely for most of the year and regularly even during
the winter. They get a lot of foot traffic daily, usually from
players of a heavier persuasion. Often, the hole positions are
changed daily which obviously causes some damage to the surface.
Lawns are not golf greens.


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