In our temperate climate in Scotland and the unpredictable weather (it was still 5 deg C in late April) having an in-house grass cutting crew doesn’t make sense for a lot of building owners or Facilities Managers.

With our high capacity for cutting grass and maintain grassed areas we can offer site owners a great outsourcing option which is a great cost-effective way for to manage large outdoor grassed areas in Scotland.

Having a team of people sitting around because the grass doesn’t need cut is poor business, highly inefficient and costly. Being a seasonal operation it often makes sense for building and site owners, land managers, etc to bring in an external contractor when they are needed.

Keep costs down and service levels high

This keeps service levels high and costs down when a site owner can go to the open market and source a suitable supplier for grass cutting services.

As every FM manager is aware, the TCO (total cost of ownership) for grass cutting resources is a significant cost including staff and machinery. Staff requirements include the machine operators (grass cutters seems an appropriate title?), maintenance crews, drivers and possibly additional labour.

Grass cutting machinery and plant is not cheap. These industrial scale machines from the likes of Kubota, Massey Ferguson and Toro are high tech, costly pieces of equipment which need serviced and maintained. They also need to be transported to and from sites or stored in a suitable building types.

With these high capital and operating costs and potential highly diversified use (6 months of grass cutting in a warm year) makes large scale grass cutting for industry an excellent candidate for out sourcing.

Over 40 years of grass cutting investment

AFP are ideally suited to the outsourcing of large scale industrial scale grass cutting for businesses. Over our 40 years we have invested in the staff and the training but also in grass cutting equipment, maintenance and service regimes and the transport resources to get our grass cutting crews to and from sites as and when required.

For more information about our grass cutting services and to get a quote, call us on 01505 862 358 or 07775 890 072, email us or send us an enquiry form.