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Professional turf machinery - electrics
This one-day, LANTRA accredited class is tailor-made for people responsible for operating and maintaining turf care equipment. Attendees will gain knowledge of how turf care machinery electrical systems function and learn how to identify potential faults within a turf care machinery electrical system and how to repair them.
Learning outcomes
- Gain knowledge of how the electric system functions
- Identify components within an electric system
- Gain knowledge of individual components and their function in the system
- Build confidence to correctly troubleshoot including using info centre or tech controller
- Identify potential defects on an electrical system and repair them
Presented by:
Ian Sumpter
Managing Director
Through my career I have developed training in all aspects of landbased skills, mainly machinery specific training. I have worked as a Greenkeeper and was a City & Guilds Independent End Point Assessor (IEPA) for Greenkeeping apprenticeships. I worked for a Toro distributor and also directly for Toro (Minneapolis) in both service and training manager roles. Since 2017 I have run my own training and service support business with customers in the UK and internationally. As a recognised Mechanical engineer, I am a member of the institute of mechanical engineers.
For 15 years I was a member on two agricultural engineers’ association (AEA) committees. The AEA training committee in which I helped develop and drive the industry’s first technician accreditation scheme (LTA). And the pesticide application committee where I was involved in the introduction of the National sprayer test scheme (NSTS). For 4 years I was on the executive committee of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers as a director/trustee.
I have written a number of articles for trade magazines with a series of 6 maintenance articles published in Greenkeeper International in 2021. I have been a guest speaker at a number of International Greenkeeper conferences. I wrote the nationally accredited Lantra turfcare machinery maintenance courses and wrote the turfcare engineering standards for the level 2 end point assessments. I am a Lantra instructor and a BAGMA Instructor. I have worked with a variety of end user customers including a number of prestige golf courses and have built a good reputation within the UK and around the world.