Lincolnshire businessman David Shelton recently celebrated a double win as his companies, E. Skinns and Shelton Sportsturf Drainage Solutions collected two separate awards in less than 24 hours!

Engineering firm E. Skinns of Woodhall Spa scooped the Lincolnshire Media Creativity Award, in recognition of its invention of a number of new products, including a log bagging product known as the Bag-Whizz and a whisky trailer with a 36 barrel capacity! Skinns specialise in machinery design, manufacture and repair as well as supplying nuts, bolts and wearing parts, motors, gearboxes, fittings and hoses.

Supertrencher+ 760, Richard Clark and Mick Claxton
of Shelton SDS with their award winning machine

 

On the very same night, their sister company Shelton SDS were not only finalists in the Lincolnshire Media Awards category for Innovation, but were thrilled to win the EDGE Award for Innovation for their Supertrencher+ 760 machine at the ‘Institute of Groundsmanship’s’ show, IOG SALTEX. The Supertrencher+ 760 which was designed and engineered by the Shelton team in Lincolnshire, is a versatile wheel trencher, designed to install land drainage pipes & underground services on sportsfields and turfed areas and leave minimal surface damage so the facility can be back in play only 24 hours later. David Shelton said: ‘This machine has transformed golf courses, football, rugby and cricket pitches, sports stadiums, gardens and polo pitches that have had problems with drainage or standing water. We are thrilled to have received the award from EDGE and look forward to going through to the European finals!’