Top Dressers & Spreaders For Sale in United Kingdom

About Top Dressers & Spreaders

Top-dressers and spreaders are important turf maintenance and renovation tools used on golf courses to apply top-dressing materials, such as sand or organic matter, that can speed up turf recovery, increase the firmness of greens, and generally improve playing conditions. Top-dressing is also used to encourage moisture retention during the summer, to protect newly planted grass from the elements, and as a follow-up to aeration. Grounds crews use spreaders to apply fertiliser and other dry materials, as well, to promote grass growth after seeding or overseeding. These machines are also sometimes used in the winter to apply salt for de-icing.

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Turfco CR15

Coverage Area

When applying top-dressing materials or fertilizer to a fairway, you may want to choose a pull-type or mounted spreader coupled with a tractor, utility terrain vehicle (UTV), or other vehicle to cover a larger area on each pass. For greens, tee boxes, and other smaller surfaces, a push spin spreader (broadcaster) or walk-behind top-dresser (some of which are self-propelled) may offer better accuracy.

Capacity

If you’re covering a large area, the capacity of your top dresser or spreader is also a concern as you want to minimise the trips from the stockpile to the fairways and greens. Many towable and power take-off (PTO)-driven mounted units offer capacities ranging from 85 litres (10 cubic feet) all the way up to 2,800 l (99 cubic ft). By comparison, smaller ride-on, stand-on spreaders or push-type drop spreaders could hold less than 28 l (1 cubic ft).

Manage The Broadcast Area

Spreading widths are often adjustable to suit your coverage area and provide an even broadcast of fertiliser or organic material. Some spreaders and top dressers even feature a wireless control system that lets operators or head groundskeepers to adjust spreading width and other settings on the fly and store preferred settings for future use.

Find The Right Top Dresser Or Spreader

NeedTurfEquipment.co.uk has a large selection of new and used top dressers and spreaders for sale from such popular manufacturers as Bauman Mfg., Ferris, Toro, Turfco, and many others.