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Variety of Field Painting Challenges--Cleaning is #1 Issue

Turf _Tips, Services, Product_Review
We recently had a series of communications with a prospective customer asking about our field marking equipment. To help us better understand their requirements we generated a series of questions. We noticed from your w...
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Sports Facility Specification Guide

Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
Athletic Business publishes one of the finest reference documents for grounds maintenance/U/420/Userfiles/Blog/download.aspx?file=WP3_Facility_Specification_Guide.pdf">Sports Facility Specification Guide is one of the mo...
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2010 Sports Turf Management Course Offerings

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
Always on the hunt for educational material on sports turf management we have the latest 2010 Rutger's Continuing Education offering. The Rutgers-NJAES Office of Continuing Education in cooperation with the New Jersey Sp...
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Tru Mark's Top 10 Time and Money Saving Tips

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
Where should you spend you scare resources to produce the most value and greatest support for your sports field operations? Over the past several years we've come across several excellent resources which have been incorp...
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Ultimate Frisbee Field Layout Tool

Trends, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
The TruMark Ultimate Field Layout Tool is designed for Ultimate organizations and field striping personnel needing a simple yet accurate tool to help in laying out and striping their sports fields. No matter what your re...
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Updated Women's Lacrosse Field Dimension Rules

Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
In 2006 US Lacrosse Women/U/420/Userfiles/Blog/HowtoLineField.pdf" target="_blank">How to Line a Field (US Lacrosse). Also, check out our lacrosse tips here.
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Turf Colorant Test Strips Show Effectiveness

Trends, Turf _Tips, Demos, Product_Review
Pictures are worth a thousand words. So is the case in showing the impact that turf colorant applications have on turf grass and conifer trees. Several test strips were made on Kentucky Blue grass in November as it was ...
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Painting a Living Tree for the Holiday Season

Trends, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
What should you cover a confer tree (with needles, evergreen type) that has a brown color where you want to make it look greener. Given the formulation of the DuraStripe Aerosol Paint I would not apply this material to ...
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No Dilution Required Sports Field Marking Paint

Turf _Tips, Demos, Product_Review
Customers continue to evaluate time versus supply cost savings when selecting products and services for their sports complex operations. Some customers are willing to pay more per applied gallon of field marking to elim...
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What's the difference ...natural turf paint vs artificial turf paint?

Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
Most synthetic turf paints are formulated to stick to the different synthetic turf fibers, e.g., nylon, polypropylene, polyethylene. Also many of these synthetic turf paints are designed to be removed using a special cle...
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Brand and Protect Your Indoor Facilities

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Protect your players, facility and display your branding at the same time! As basketball, volleyball and wrestling begin to gear up it is time to look to your gym and indoor spaces to make sure they are as ready for the...
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A New NCAA Baseball/Softball Rule could impact your facility: Make sure you are ready for the season!

With player safety in mind, the NCAA has implemented a rule requiring hard surfaces, such as wood, brick and concrete, to be padded to protect the athletes from injury.  The rule: NCAA Softball Rule 2.15. We rec...
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Football Field End Zone Design

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
When you think about the aesthetics of a football field, we know that the sideline numbers, lines and hash marks are there to guide and regulate play. Let’s take the next step and explore options for beyond the goa...
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Football Field Painting and Stenciling Videos

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
With football season around the corner it is a great time to get an idea on the scope of what is needed to prep your field. Not every field is going to need the attention, detail or man power of a premier D1 program or a...
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What You Need to Know When Painting your Logo on Tracks, Cement or Driveways/Sidewalks

Turf _Tips
Your team or organization's logo is important and is a symbol of pride. Painting your logo on grass is one thing, but what about hard surfaces such as parking lots, sidewalks and tracks? You can absolutely do this! The p...
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Baseball/Softball Mound Logos: Low Cost, BIG Impact

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
Fields are and always have been a source of pride for each team. The way the field is displayed, on the other hand, continues to evolve. Fields turned into stadiums. The grass went from whatever was grown locally, to per...
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Softball and Baseball Field Logo Stencils

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
It's 2020 - time to update your baseball field! After the hard work of mound rebuilding, regrading diamonds and topdressing are done don't forget to add your team's identity! Painting your logo on your baseball or s...
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