BMO Field will become the second stadium in North America with a hybrid playing surface.
TORONTO — Like an electronic caterpillar, a special machine is inching its way across the BMO Field pitch these days. It’s going 24 hours a day stitching green artificial fibres into the natural grass.Housed inside a tarpaulin cover — the eight Europeans staffing the machine find it cold in Canada — giant needles grab the polyethylene fibres and stuff them into the ground every 20 millimetres. The made-in-Abu-Dhabi fibres are 20 centimetres long and stitched 18 centimetres deep into the ground.
"The investment on this square of grass has been phenomenal," said Heggie. "There’s very few groundskeepers around the world that get the support that I get." "It’s not easy being a groundskeeper," said Heggie. "But this will give me the peace of mind in January, February, December — those shoulder seasons when i just know it’s tough and we can’t get the too structure that we need."
"Millions of years told this plant this is what it should be doing at certain times of the year and we’re trying to tell it the opposite," he said. "So obviously there are limitations when fighting Mother Nature like that."
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