Origin’s First Line Marking Robot Customer Upgrades To New TinyLineMarker Pro X

Gareth Fowler-Simons is the director of  Lakeside Grounds Maintenance, a second-generation family operated firm based in Coventry. Covering the Midlands and beyond, Lakeside Grounds Maintenance is a long-standing customer of Origin Amenity Solutions and was actually the first in the UK to own a TinyLineMarker GPS-guided robotic line‑marker. They are a well-respected independent contract specialist in the grounds maintenance industry.

Gareth explains “We always brought grass seed, fertilisers and chemicals from Rigby Taylor and also had a traditional line marking machine, the IGO Premier, but when we decided to move to a robotic line marker back in 2018, we trusted Rigby’s, and after doing our research, we choose their TinyLineMarker Pro which turned out to be the best decision.”

TinyMobileRobots is marketed and distributed exclusively in the UK by Origin Amenity Solutions which comprises four leading industry names - Headland Amenity, Rigby Taylor, Symbio and TurfKeeper.

Gareth continues, “We are a team of around 15 specialising in sports turf and grounds maintenance. We primarily undertake work for councils, schools, sports clubs, and professional sporting clubs. We use our TinyLineMarker Pro for initial marking, overmarking at multiple sites within our contracting businesses, as well as alteration of pitches.”

Origin Amenity Solutions has recently delivered their latest GPS guided robotic line marking machine, the TinyLineMarker Pro X to Gareth. He purchased this in a part-exchange deal and traded in his old Tiny Pro robot.

He explains, “Our original robot was coming up to 5 years old and our policy is to keep the frontline specialist equipment as fresh as possible to minimise drama and cost. We looked at a competitors machine, but I thought the new TinyLineMarker Pro X Robot had the biggest and the best jump in technology to enhance our marking operation. It was smaller and lighter than the competitors and is an enhanced version of what we currently have – the Pro, which we know from experienced is good, but the additional features on the new Pro X are fantastic. We have already seen good saving in labour for initial marking, especially as operatives can complete other tasks while the robot is in use.”

The TinyLineMarker Pro X is packed with a range of brand-new innovative features and hardware upgrades; deigned to make line marking projects as streamlined and effortless as possible.

“The new multi-select tool is saving us time. We can now queue up multiple pitches to be marked out in whatever order we want. We don’t need to recalibrate the robot each time and it displays the route it will take to mark out all queued pitches, so we can ensure there are no obstructions in the way. The robot also gives us an estimated time of completion as well as the distance to drive so we can plan other jobs in.”

The Tiny Pro X appeals to a wide audience; it is designed for fast and accurate initial and overmarking of a huge variety of sports ranging from mainstream athletics, football, and rugby to the more obscure such as Quadball. Customers save money and time as operators can carry out other essential tasks such as mowing, aeration, spraying and spreading while the robot does the marking.

Gareth concludes, ''After looking at other machines on the market and having discussions with our sales adviser Glen, I felt this would be a significant improvement to the way we operate our line marking. I am proud to be the 1st contractor in the UK to take the jump into a sector of the business that needed help from the traditional ways of carrying out these works.''

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