As part of a full mowers replacement programme, Bassetlaw District Council in North Nottinghamshire has welcomed two Toro LT3340 high performance reel mowers in a bid to maintain the district’s multitude of diverse grassy areas.


Keith Somers, Operational Services Manager (Hort), seated, with, from left, Julian Elwood, Lely’s Stewart Jeffs and Trevor Payne

With North Nottinghamshire being a largely rural area, Keith Somers, Operational Services Manager (Hort), explains why Bassetlaw District Council chose to invest in the Toro LT3340s:  “The two new mowers have replaced older machines as part of a replacement programme of existing machinery we have with Toro and UK distributor Lely Turfcare. They have joined another four Toros that we already operate here.

Since the mowers arrived on site on February 2016, Keith says they have been used to maintain “parks, cemeteries, closed church yards, housing estates and sports areas.

“The main benefits of these machines are that they are able to deal with both small and large areas of grass across all of these different spaces,” he adds.

Heading up a grounds team of 25 full time employees, six seasonal employees and one apprentice, Keith says: “The mowers are rated as very good by the staff; they do like these machines.”

While the machinery was supplied by distributor Lely Turfcare, the Council has also worked with local Nottingham-based Toro dealer PS Marsden on the replacement programme. “We use PS Marsden for parts and also use them for purchasing other grounds maintenance equipment,” explains Keith. “I have always found them to be a very competitive company when providing us with quotations for other equipment and they have been very good with getting back quickly with repairs or supplying spare parts.”