Hörger Maschinen e.K.
Inh. Jürgen Staats

Very much sports facilities are equipped with synthetic coverings. The advantages of these coverings like antislipness, elasticity, water permeability, reduced accident risk will lose their effectiveness within a few years without care due to penetration of dirt particles and alga forming.

We developed our athletic track cleaner for high pressure cleaning with pick up of dirty water in one stage as a combination for assembly to compact and narrow gauge tractors.

The athletic track cleaner consists of a cleaning unit to be assembled at the front of the tractor and a tank pump unit for rear assembly. The rear tank is diveded into a fresh water part and a dirty water part. The fresh water is sucked in by a high pressure pump, which is driven by a drive shaft, and carried via hoses to the front cleaning unit.

Here, the water is effectively brought to the bottom by 4 nozzles that are fastened at two circling rotors. At the same time the front cleaning unit is set under vacuum and the water with the removed dirt is taken up. Through an injection pump the dirty water is carried into the rear tank. After use up of fresh water, the dirty water can

Flow Filled artificial turf is influenced by the environment from the first day on.

Dust, pollen, rests of plants and abrasion material are washed by rain into the fine cavities of the filling. The result of this process is a total hardened surface with no longer water permeability. The covering infiltrated with particles of humus causes the ideal breeding ground for algae and moss. An artificial turf that got dirty like that can no longer meet its purpose. It exists an extreme danger of slipping and with that a not calculable accident risk.

Flow Filled artificial turf is influenced by the environment from the first day on.

Dust, pollen, rests of plants and abrasion material are washed by rain into the fine cavities of the filling. The result of this process is a total hardened surface with no longer water permeability. The covering infiltrated with particles of humus causes the ideal breeding ground for algae and moss. An artificial turf that got dirty like that can no longer meet its purpose. It exists an extreme danger of slipping and with that a not calculable accident risk.

Only with constant maintenance and care a filled artificial turf can keep permanently its favourable quality and can be used effectively for many years.
For an effective care it is necessary to pick up the filling material off the turf pile in regular intervals. Coarse soilings are to be sieved and fine dust filtered. The bent turf fibres shall be reset upright and the filling material brought back to the turf fibres for stabilization. The surface shall show an even sight after treatment.

To be able to work reliable and inexpensive we developed our artificial turf cleaner SKU as an assembling unit for compact tractors. There are three different processes that can be done with this machine due to its big brush diameter of 500 mm.

1. Maintenance cleaning:
Depending on weather every two to four weeks. Coarse soiling and accumulated dust as well as abrasion is removed.

2. Intensive cleaning with loosening:
About every 3 months. Coarse soiling is removed, fine particles like dust, plant rests and abrasion is filtered, filling is loosened, elasticity and drainage effect is maintained.

Unfilled artificial Turf polluted by environmental influences such as dust, pollen and plant remains as well as other contaminants such as cigarette butts, bottle caps, etc.
Without cleaning is interspersed with humus particles covering an ideal breeding ground for algae and moss. It is an extreme danger for the artificial turf if it´s covered with algae and a moss-covered because of slipping and accident risk for the athlete rises serious.
 

For Intensive wet cleaning of dirty water absorption unfilled artificial turf´s concurrently in a single operation, we have developed our artificial turf cleaner SKR for compact and small tractors.

The artificial turf cleaner consists of a cleaning attachment in the front mounted pump and a tank unit in the rear mounting.
The rear tank is divided into a fresh and a waste area. The high pressure pump powered by the PTO shaft sucks the fresh water and forces it through hoses to the front cleaning purpose.

Here, the cleaning is done in the alluvial brush system with pure water without added detergents. About an injector pump the dirty water in the rear recovery tank will be transported.

Even moss and algae is removed by using our artificial turf cleaner SKR.

Furthermore, the tank-and-pump unit is compatible with our synthetic track cleaner KBR front cleaning purpose.

To lift the fibres and level out the sand, or rubber granular infill from synthetic grass sport surfaces.

It is built around a zinc plated and stainless steel frame, which will attach to the three point link of a tractor,or it can be towed by a drawbar for tractors without  three point.

The frame can be used with other equipment added such as, depth control wheels, steel spring rake and grading blade to de-compact and level out the infill to a working width of 2 Metres, or with just the brushes it can be adjusted to a working width of about 3 Metres

The BS2000 Brush System can be supplied with the following options:
1) Spring steel rake to loosen areas of compacted infill
2) A rubber grading blade to level out the infill material.
3) Transport wheel set.
4) Drawbar attachment for tractors without three point linkage