John O'Conner introduce apprentices to new machinery

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2020 last week, current apprentices at BALI Registered Contractor John O’Conner, who are based in Hertfordshire, were introduced to their newest and most sophisticated piece of machinery; Rigby Taylor's TinyLineMarker (TLM).

The team demonstrated the TLM at Barnwell School in Stevenage and was joined by MP for Stevenage, Stephen McPartland and Amazing Apprentices.

The TLM is operated by a tablet and GPS satellite connection with the software allowing our operatives to move, resize and reshape the pitch lines down to centimetre precision. It allows our operatives to mark pitches and running tracks without the need for measuring with reel and string, therefore introducing time efficiencies.

It's not only improving customer service levels but is also enabling us to reduce the human resource, time, water usage and carbon footprint of our traditional line marking operations.

Matt O'Conner commented

"Our apprentices are witnessing first-hand how robotic line markers are transforming the sports ground industry, and in line with the National Apprenticeship Week theme to ‘Look Beyond’, they also saw how the technology allows a grounds person to create, resize, copy or move pitches in seconds using a tablet computer and Google Earth.”