The thing is you just show one person and then everyone wants it, you
know? So yes that's the way it's been.
My name is Cameron McMillan I'm the owner of
DJuke Limited. We're a sports turf contractor here in new UK. We specialize
in drainage. We've also got a DryJect franchise, but now recently we've just
added Ventrac services.
I come from a family of green keepers so I started my
career at Sunningdale Golf Club working under my father. So 36 years as a golf
course manager. I've also been involved with golf course construction. I started
off with the DryJect franchise back in 2012 whilst I was still a superintendent at a golf course.
We've added the pc drainage in about 2014. The business then grew and
I had to leave my full-time job to to join the company and push the company forward.
We've currently installed PC drainage
into about 150 golf greens in a very short space of time and that's a growing
part of our business.
I've been looking for another portfolio to the business and to be honest I've
been looking at the Ventrac for a number of months and it seemed like an obvious
choice because of its versatility. Well once you start off with a Ventrac and
you start off with a baseline of attachments you can always add more.
That's the beauty of the system. If we haven't got that attachment and we have
a need for it, or a client asked for it, we will get it. It's as simple as that because
every one of them has got value.
The power rake we found that extremely useful on pathways. We started doing one
pathway which led to another the use social media to advertise that fact and
in all honesty we got booked up very quickly and we got lots of bookings
in the future pathway work.
You're saving your clients weeks and weeks of work in terms of filling
potholes. The amount of work that 10 guys would take a week to do we can do in a
day with a power rake.
The tough cut we really bought initially for woodland management for conservation
works removing course broom, bracken bramble and it's it's proved extremely
useful in this regard.
Basically can cut areas that other machines can't get to. The articulated
nature of the the Ventrac machine allows it to cover rough terrain very easily.
Today we were in an area that was full of rabbit holes and it didn't lose
traction once through that really rough terrain.
The broom is also great for just going around hard surfaces particularly golf
cart paths where you can remove bits of debris and also in the winter is great
for clearing snow. We don't get a lot of snow over here but when we do it can be
devastating. So certainly the power broom is going to be useful in that
regard at that time of the year as well.
The Aera-Vator is a great machine for working around golf green complexes and
high-traffic intensive areas where you get bare ground. Where we can loosen the
top surface and drop seed into those areas as well. It's traditionally an area
of a golf course which is difficult to aerate because it's usually undulations
so we can get round those areas very easily with the aerator and drop seed in
behind.
Since I've had the Ventrac we have opened up new clients pretty much every
time so we can go in and offer the Ventrac services and also we can discuss
all the other services that we can offer with the client which is wonderful
because we're getting in the door for the first time.
We currently have two machines to do the work what we're doing at the
moment but I can see that increasing and us running a larger fleet of Ventrac
machinery. It's so easy to operate the steering is extremely light it's very
precise you can be inch perfect with it. I absolutely love operating the Ventrac
and I've been operating machinery for 36 years and I think this is the best one
I've ever operated without a doubt,