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and further behind and quickly spiralled  of areas was appalling and was more like a   which only compounded the problem when         many public complaints, which also caught    were on their knees by the end of their 


Mistake 2:


  The council failed to adapt their basic mowing regime to match the rotary       


countries in the world works successfully mainly because the minimum HOC     rotaries are the predominant mowing method for amenity grass areas around  low as possible, has to change if users are       from a suppliers point of view it’s great for spare parts business due to unnecessary wear of bedknives and cylinders, but from     colleague, Nigel Church, when in his    if this is not robustly managed by the  


the correct HOC, don’t manufacturers design the machines so that the HOC can’t  and one that has been raised numerous     always seeking to get the jump on the


It became clear, at an early stage in this period of devastating local authority cutbacks, that cutting grass was not at the top of most council priority lists


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  are monitored closely to ensure products at  municipal machine purchases are procured      out the importance of this the hard way, when a tender for 20 triples was lost on a   with regard to municipal mowing, but   So what can we learn from all this and


how can users realise the best performance  some pointers:


Management


  some fundamental basics in your overall    raising the contract height of cut is the    most important to manage the operators


robustly to ensure that the new, higher   


    machine spending all day mowing a large   mowing verge areas where only one deck 


       they mostly allow for overlap and    


   rotary machines, and you intend to mow the same area of grass, you are going to need more rotary machines than   


  


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