Choosing the Right Sports Field Marker
A sports field marker paints turf line marking on grass: cricket pitches, soccer and football fields, athletics tracks, school ovals. Field markers are turf units, not pavement units: they apply waterborne or specialist sport-field paint at low pressure with a ride-friendly hopper, and they are designed to track straight on grass without the heavy structural frame of a council pavement striper. Field markers performance is judged by line crispness, paint colour-fastness on turf, and survivability through a growing season which the GRACO range excels in across the board.
Battery-powered (low noise, schools, indoor sports halls). The Graco FieldLazer ES100 (25U544) runs on the 60V FlexVolt battery platform, delivers 4.5 LPM flow at a max 0.021 inch tip, carries a 19 L hopper and SG3 striping gun, and ships with a 1/4 inch x 7.5 m BlueMax II hose and an LL5319 SwitchTip. Battery suits schools (no engine noise during class hours), indoor sports halls, council multi-field crews who want to charge between jobs, and contractors who don't want fuel handling on the back of the ute.
Petrol-driven (council ovals, multi-field crews running petrol fleets). The Graco FieldLazer S100 (248942) is the current petrol field marker, replacing the obsolete S90. Petrol suits council ground crews and contractors who already run petrol equipment (LineLazer carpark machines, mowers, blowers) and want one fuel source across the fleet. Both the ES100 and S100 cover the same field-marking application class; the choice is power source, not capability.
What you do not use a field marker for. Pavement work: carpark line marking, council street line marking, and any ATS 4110 longitudinal marking are all out of scope for FieldLazer. The unit lacks the pressure, flow rate, and structural frame needed for pavement-unit duty. For carpark and street work, see the Car Parks and Streets collection (LineLazer 3400, ES 1000, V ES 2000). For council and contractor public-road work, see the Roads and Highways and Line Marking Machines collections.