| Summer seems along way away as the snow falls | | | | covers can be moved on and off the crease at |
| over the UK and the big freeze continues to chill us. | | | | regular intervals. |
| However now is the time that cricket clubs are | | | | Pneumatic castors are not just limited to the cricketing |
| ensuring their pitches are covered and their cricket | | | | world. These castors have proved vital for other |
| screens are suitable to be manoeuvred around the | | | | outdoor environments, such as Garden Centres, |
| cricket field. But how do these grounds men and | | | | Football Grounds, and Agricultural equipment and also |
| women ensure these heavy covers and screens do | | | | within Marinas. Pneumatic wheels have also recently |
| not damage their perfectly flat cricket field? The | | | | been utilised for extreme sports such as go karting, |
| answer is the use of pneumatic castors. These | | | | kite surfing and mountain boarding. Similar to Cricket |
| pneumatic castors have a rubber tyre, with an air filled | | | | Clubs, these outdoor environments utilise the quieter |
| inner tube. This means these pneumatic castors have | | | | winter months to upgrade and replace their wheels |
| a wide enough tread, which is cushioned, very much | | | | and castors, prior to the busier periods starting from |
| like a wider version of the wheels found on mountain | | | | Easter onwards. Garden Centres for example replace |
| bikes. | | | | worn out wheels and replace them with pneumatic |
| Not only do these pneumatic castors provide | | | | castors, wide tread sand hopper wheels or even |
| cushioning when moving covers over the cricket | | | | simpler hard rubber EPR wheels. These Garden |
| crease, field and boundaries, but also gives flexibility of | | | | centre trolleys have a punishing summer season, and |
| movement and strength. Pneumatic castors can take | | | | are not only expected to carry heavy plants and soils, |
| up to 200 kilograms each, which makes them very | | | | but are also expected to be easy to move around the |
| suitable not only for cricket covers, but also for the tall | | | | garden centre. |
| and heavy cricket screens encircling the boundary. | | | | Go karting has been a relatively recent and exciting |
| Alternatives to the pneumatic castors are the wide | | | | environment for pneumatic wheels to operate within. |
| tread wheels, commonly called Sand hopper wheels or | | | | Secondary schools up and down the country have a |
| GB270's. Again these wheels offer the added | | | | programme to encourage their students to get |
| advantage of not denting the field, as the wide tread | | | | involved and build their own go kart. They can either |
| distributes the load of the cricket cover evenly. The | | | | purchase the kit and follow the instructions, or |
| only disadvantage of using these wide tread wheels, is | | | | alternatively build one from scratch as a team! |
| the lack if swivel manoeuvrability. Encasing | | | | Pneumatic castors have such a diverse functionality, |
| pneumatic wheels in castors therefore has the | | | | from sporting grounds to school grounds, they offer |
| added benefit of flexibility of movement, which is | | | | strength, flexibility of movement coupled with a |
| proving vital during the summer months when ground | | | | cushioned ride, to keep our pitches perfect! |