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February 2014 | SportsTurf 41 www.stma.org BEACON TARP CART WITH TARP PIN HOLDERS This cart is a great addition to your grounds crew. Designed to store and transport up to four area tarps and your field weights or tarp pins. Conveniently keep rolled up tarps and pins together for easy transport and storage. Perfect for stowing area rain tarps, weighted tarps, infield protectors, sideline turf protectors, track protectors and growth covers. The cart may be manually pushed along in wheelbarrow fashion or towed by a utility vehicle Beacon Athletics SWEEPER CUTS MAINTENANCE TIME ON SYNTHETICS The 3-three-wheel Broce Turf Boss sweeper can groom a typical turf field in a single pass, with full 8' brush contact, reducing field maintenance time by up to two-thirds. Its reversible brush rotation, included as standard equipment, can double productivity by allowing the operator to sweep in both directions without turning around. Turf Boss sweeper's hydraulics are engineered to deliver more power to the brush, which enables full brush-turf contact for faster field maintenance. To combat overheating issues on turf fields, its radiator is designed to operate in 140°F ambient temperatures. It is the only sweeper of its kind to incorporate a hydraulic oil cooler as standard equipment. Comes standard with turf-specific 12-inch wide tires that tread lightly on turf. Broce Manufacturing Co. SELF-PRIMING CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Griswold Pump Company says that its H Series high head self-priming centrifugal pumps have been designed with key features and options that make them ideally suited for a wide variety of water applications, including turf irrigation where greater flows and higher heads are needed. Unlike standard end suction centrifugal pumps, the H Series is able to maintain its prime even when check valves or foot valves have failed. Since the suction line on the H Series is located higher on the pump housing than conventional centrifugal pumps, it keeps the impeller and mechanical seal covered with water at all times eliminating the need to re-prime the pump and protects the seal from running dry resulting in costly replacements. Griswold Pump Company KATANA HERBICIDE EARLY ORDER AND BUNDLE BONUS PROGRAM Professional sports turf managers can get a head start on next year's maintenance plans while conserving valuable budgets with an early order incentive and product bundle bonus program, available from PBI-Gordon Corporation, for its Katana Turf Herbicide. The program includes different opportunities to save: Katana Incentive, with a minimum purchase of eight bottles or two cases of Katana, you can receive a $100-per-case rebate. Katana is packaged with four 3-ounce bottles per case (receive $100 per case with each additional case after minimum is met). Also Bundle Bonus Rebate, add 10 gallons of SpeedZone and/or SpeedZone Southern to each case of Katana ordered and earn an additional $2.50 per gallon rebate on the SpeedZone products. Early delivery bonus also available. PBI Gordon BAYER CROPSCIENCE INTRODUCES SPECTICLE PLUS FERTILIZER Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, has launched Specticle plus Fertilizer, an herbicide that provides warm-season turf managers up to 8 months of residual control at low use rates. The characteristics of Specticle deliver excellent weed prevention and fertility. Specticle plus Fertilizer is available in two different con- centrations and a variety of fertilizer blends to provide for increased flexibility that meets the needs of warm-season turfgrass professionals. Specticle is a unique class of chemistry that offers an environmentally responsible solution and helps address weed resistance. Specticle plus Fertilizer delivers extended residual pre-emergent control of more than 75 broadleaf and grassy weeds, including annual bluegrass, goosegrass, crabgrass and annual sedge. The easy-to-use Specticle plus Fertilizer helps streamline turf management practices and simplify application. Bayer GET RID OF GEESE Canada Goose deterrent company Away With Geese has a new product: the Sports Cage. The Sports Cage protects the Sports Unit, a unit designed to avert theft in public spaces, from vandalism. The two together get rid of Canada Geese from any public area, while also averting theft and vandalism of the unit. All Away With Geese products feature a solar-powered light that is scarcely noticeable to humans but is very disruptive to the sleep of the geese, causing them to find another habitat after just a few restless nights. Like all Away With Geese units, they are maintenance free; once placed and secured, they require no upkeep and are guaranteed to rid the area of Canada Geese. Away With Geese