New
Reelmaster 3100 cuts fine turf at National Trust's
magnificent
country estate gardens
The
National Trust has brought in a new Toro Reelmaster 3100 riding mower
for fine turf cutting in the magnificent gardens at Anglesey Abbey,
near Cambridge.
Lord
Fairhaven designed a spectacular garden with planting for all seasons
at his country estate. Today the gardens are cared for under the
expert eye of head gardener Richard Todd.
Richard
has been tending the gardens for 40 years, some 30 of which he has
been using Toro to help him and his seven-strong team care for the
site's 114 acres of land.
The
gardens are made up of formal borders, wide-open spaces, wildflower
meadows and endless lawns, for which a new Toro Reelmaster 3100 has
been brought in to handle the formal, fine turf cutting around the
house itself.
Richard,
who
received a BEM in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2013 for services
to the National Trust and National Heritage in Cambridge, says:
"The Reelmaster is a straight replacement for the previous Toro
machine we'd used for the same purpose for 17 years. The team and I
had always enjoyed using it and we knew we wanted something similar.
We have a Toro Groundsmaster 4000-D, too, which we use for the larger
expanses of grass, and for the smaller areas around the house, which
require a precise finish, we use the RM3100. It's a good
combination.
"As
you can imagine, I've used many machines in my time and Toro is a
make I trust. They perform well and last well."
Mike
Taylor, Lely area sales manager, says: "Anglesey Abbey had been
using a Toro Reelmaster
for many years and were very happy with it. However it was time to
update. They looked at many machines and chose the Reelmaster 3100
because it was the most comfortable, easy to use and quiet machine
they tried. Plus, they required the machine for a high visibility
area and demanded a very smooth finish. For that you really can't
beat the Reelmaster 3100. It gives one of the finest after-cut
appearances in the industry."
