Red clay sport surfaces maintenance with excessive layer

When it happens:

It may happen that tennis clay court maintenance operators add the new clay over old top layer, and so it become excessively present on the playground: very hard to manage! This can affect a perfect bounce of the balls or the controlled sliding of the tennis players, to create real bumps where the ankles could collide. In this case Venus helps to decompact the old clay where it is excessive and too pressed.

Preliminary measures:

- if there is an excess of redclay it is possible to see it from overlaps near the white lines which are often even covered by the toplayer clay and disappear or it could be at a lower level than the playingground tennis surface

- clean the white stripes to see them clearly and use Venus by milling along the lines without passing over them: use the blu rod indicator mounted on the right side of Venus as a guide to not cross the stripes with rotor's blades

After a first light milling (maximum act on a depth of 5mm without digging) the grinded surface must be leveled with a straightedge and it is advisable to remove the excess of clay

Machine adjustment:

machine set up devices

depth adjustment: position n.° 2

speed control: push the engine speed control on a medium level up to max speed if a strong action is required

Final operations:

Pass the horizontal mesh to reconstitute the ideal granulometry of the clay underlayer.

The use of a roller compactor is usually not necessary to recompact the clay after an ordinary and rapid maintenance of this kind, which is only able to restore balance to the flatness of the field. However, it is advisable to let the playground red clay surfaces "rest" for a couple of hours before playing tennis. In summer, with a warm and windy temperature, this time can be reduced to one hour.