My first week at Arsenal has come and gone, and so far I'm really enjoying it. We start each day at 8am, as we get our jobs for the day and get ready to go out. 

Because it's the start of the summer, the days right now mostly consist of mowing the vigorously growing pitches (soccer fields). Mowing is done with either Jacobsen triplex mowers, Dennis Premier pedestrian mowers, or Honda Rear Roller rotary mowers. The triplexes are used to give the pitches a quick cut, while the Dennis mowers are typically used to burn in a pattern due to their heavy weight. They give the pitch good, sharp lines and quality presentation. The Honda mowers are usually used on new pitches, where the grass stand isn't as dense yet as the other pitches.

Mowing with one of the Jacobsen triplexes.

Normally, if you use the walk mowers one day, you'll use the rider the next to save your legs. For example, we spent a day cutting the same pitch twice, once with the small Hondas and then with the Dennis Premiers and each walked about 12 miles and 40,000 steps!

Breaks during the workday are at 10:30 and 1:00. The 10:30 break is for tea, while the 1:00 break is for what they call "dinner", which they also call tea, which we call lunch. If you could follow that, then an even more confusing curveball is that they call our dinner "tea" as well. I think I prefer the regular breakfast, lunch, and dinner combo!

Since it is the end of the soccer season over here, renovations are also taking place. Some of the time during the day is dedicated to preparing the fields to be stripped off. Pitches are being taken out with the Koro Field Top Maker and new surfaces will replace the old. More on that next time!

One of the pitches being Koro'd off using the Universal rotor.