The Best Investment We Made...
Ed
Reilly's crew replaced a contractor who edged beds at Fairway Mews in
New Jersey with a crew of three. It took two weeks to complete the job
on 24 acres of residential turf and 118 acres of golf course.
Two
years ago, he chose the Bedshaper based on its reputation as a
productive edger with minimal requirements for maintenance and repair.
He saw the machine demonstrated and bought it. Today, one man on Ed's
crew can complete all the edging in just one week, resulting in such a
significant savings that the BedShaper paid for itself in just two
weeks.
"We actually
can maintain our beds at the rate of two hundred feet per minute," Ed
says, "the BedShaper far outweighs the competition." Take it from Ed,
"of all the equipment we purchased, the BedShaper is the best
investment we made."!
We Needed a Serious Edger...
When
you edge at least 30 linear miles of predominantly curved beds per
year, the equipment you use is crucial. At Willow Valley Resort &
Conference Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Grounds Supervisor Jim
Nagle knows the BedShaper is the perfect tool. A demanding grounds
maintenance schedule is necessary at Willow Valley which functions as a
destination resort with a nine-hole public golf course as well as a
retirement community with a variety of options for living.
With
500 acres of gardens and landscaped areas divided into segments
according to function, Willow Valley also encompasses a business park
and shopping center.
All
areas see the BedShaper on a regular basis, resulting in Willow
Valley's reputation as a showplace in the heart of the Pennsylvania
Amish country.
Purchased to replace an inefficient edger that was
also difficult to use, the BedShaper arrived just before the 2001
season. With a team of 15 full time groundskeepers and 8 seasonal
workers, Jim put the BedShaper to work and immediately realized
a significant savings in labor.
The
self-propelled BedShaper works faster and, because it rolls the edging
back in a single piece, cleanup is instant. With hydrostatic
transmission, uneven terrain is no problem, and edging around trees
went quickly due to the BedShaper's capability to turn a tight radius.
The time required for edging was reduced, and, as Jim put it, "we saved about 10 hours each time we edged a segment of the property."
