Garden Tool Maintenance
There are basically three distinct markets:
- The "Domestic" Market - that is every home with a lawn and an hedge uses a "domestic" lawnmower , either a cylinder type or a rotary,and for the hedge they use garden shears.
- The "Professional" Market are Golf courses, bowling greens and large houses-country estates etc These usually use Beaver, Toro or Ransommes units.
- Companies who specialise in sharpening the above, as well as chain saws. (Some of the "Professional" Market choose to invest in their own grinders). These are often "family" businesses.
We supply new and second-hand grinders at very competitive prices.
The mfrs of these grinders include:
- Atterton & Ellis Ltd of Haverhill in Suffolk
- Eric Hunter of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Supreme Mowers, 3M, BRL
- Foley Belsaw U.S.A..Garfitts.
They are supplied as 220/240 volts single phase (easiest to set up as they use-household electrics) and Three phase 380/440 volts industrial electrics.
FGP buy and resell second-hand grinders when eg. a grinding company move up market and invest in a newer machine, or when someone retires from the industry.
We sell many second-hand Express Dual. Dual means the machine will grind the cylinder when stripped down from the mower or "in situ" thus saving much time, provided the bearings are still good. The Pilot -a smaller capacity machine targeted towards the Domestic Market for cylinders up to approx 24" long. All cylinder mowers have a bottom blade and these can be ground on the Anglemaster-automatically or by using the FH1.
FGP have an advertisement every month in the "L.G.E." Review (Lawn and Garden Machinery) where we show the second-hand machines that we have for sale often at 1/3 or 1/4 of the new price but in good working order. A list can be provided of customers who chose to buy second hand machines.
For shears we have our own machine, called the AF/EP202 Shear Grinder (single phase) this grinds the edge of each blade and does the "hollow" grinding of the inside edge. It incorporates two different grinding wheels, one plain, parellel sided wheel for sharpening the edge of the clipper and a "Cup" wheel for the hollow grinding. The price of this machine is £724 plus VAT when collected and it comes on a stand with dust extraction facilities. The wheels are 200mm diameter.
For chainsaws we offer (from Foley-Belsaw) the Speed Sharp automatic and manual models for saw pitches of 1/4", 325, 3/8", 404, 1/2".
For the professional sharpener we also supply a bench mounted saw chain breaker, bar rail closer, and a bench mounted rivet spinner.
For Back lapping we supply the Model 365 with stands for bench mounting. This is a single phase machine 115/220 volts-ideal for a quick touch up of your cylinders between major sharpenings.It is fast and easy to set up and connects easily to most cylinder mowers and can sharpen gang mowers whilst still connected to the frame and tractor (BEAVER - TORO- RANSOMMES).
Finally for the "Rotary" variety lawnmower (increasingly more common) we supply many Model 440 - this incorporates an 8" (200mm) grinding wheel , 1/2 or 1 H.P. motor for bench mounting or on a stand at £875.00 plus VAT when collected.
We supply all the safety equipment - full face masks, visors, goggles, gloves etc, as well as ALL TYPES of grinding wheels and diamond etc dressers at COMPETITIVE PRICES.
Please contact us for prices and further information.
