Machine for resurfacing red clay in a tennis court

Venus Maxi: red clay court resurfacing machine

The first rule is "NO EFFORT"! This machine was created for non-professional maintenance workers, it is easy to use, you immediately learn to use it at its best instinctively, and however you adjust it, it allows you to do ordinary and extraordinary maintenance without effort. In fact, the rule is to adjust it to a depth from 1 to 4 (indicated in the cursor of the front depth range) and to the automatic advancement speed (using the accelerator lever on the right of the guide handle) so that the machine advances by itself without having to hold it back or without having to struggle to drive it in a straight direction. At the end of the court you leverage the handles, lift the front and it turns on itself without effort. If the surface is very hard, first adjust to a depth between 1 and 2, not more than 2.5, and a medium advancement speed (gas lever halfway up its top rangel) and the Venus grind and regenerates the surface without pulling too much in advance. If it is necessary to go deeper, you can adjusted in a second pass to a greater depth, but grind the surface 5/8mm depth, then use Venus on a second step. If you find difficult to hold the machine or guide it, it means that the surface is too hard for that depth of action: then the excavation depth is lightened with the central handwheel and raised so that the job will be easy and you proceed more quickly to your final result

That's the version of Venus born in 2016: the answer to a particular need for those countries close to the equator where for years we have exported our machines for the maintenance of clay courts for the tennis clay curts resurfasing and bocce courts clay baseball playground. In fact, the high humidity often forces the maintainers of the red clay to add new clay to the one that is compacted, creating thick and very hard layers that are very difficult to break.

So we created an oversized version of our Venus with larger blade and a heavier rotor and the addition of a depth-adjustable front clay grinder that breaks the hard and compact clay to clods so that the rotor immediately reduce in fine refubished clay without excessively wearing the abrasive discs.

Technical data:

Dimensions:
length: 119cm
height: 95 cm
width: 55 cm
weight: 135kg
petrol engine power: 6.5 hp

How to start Venus engine

Use the machine to the best and consume the blades correctly:

Venus blades are designed to perform and last long: if used regularly and correctly with an average maintenance and cleaning after each working session, Venus guarantees a life of up to 70/80 fully refurbished red clay courts.

IMPORTANT: TO ENSURE GREATER LONGEVITY OF THE BLADES, THE ROTOR MUST BE CLEANED FROM THE RESIDUAL GRINDED CLAY WITH A STEEL BRUSH THAT IS SUPPLIED WITH EACH MACHINE: IT WILL BE ENOUGH, AT THE END OF EACH WORKING DAY, TO DEDICATE 5 MINUTES TO CLEAN THE MACHINE. TURN BACK THE MACHINE AND LIFT THE ROTOR SIDE, BEAT THE DRUM WITH A PIECE OF WOOD AND TAKE OF WET CLAY BY THE BLADES BEFORE IT DRIES. DON'T LET THE CLAY DRY ON THE BALDES, IF NOT CLAY WILL BECOME HARD AS CEMENT AND WILL BE BLOCKING THE ROTOR. IF YOU WANT THE MACHINE TO WORKS PROPERLY REMEMBER THE 104 BLADES OF VENUS MUST ALWAYS TURN FREE AND CLEAN AND SO THE SPACERS BETWEEN ONE BLADE AND THE NEXT

When it should become necessary to replace the hardox BLADES (which are always available in stock and ready for delivery with shipping times within 48 hours after you request) the operations to extract the rotor and change the blades are simple and require less than one hour: that video showes how easy it is.

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