Throughout my career in agriculture I have been involved with all sorts of land based machinery both big and small. East-Lawn came about when I needed a tractor mower to cut my lawns at home. Everything I bought needed improvement and at the end of the process I would advertise the machine, make a helpful margin and start the process again. I enjoyed the tinkering and the challenge of building and running a small business out of a hobby.

 

Westwoods have always been my favourites but it didn't take long for me to realise the deck pans were the Achilles heel of these classic mowers. Many of these great tractor mowers were becoming redundant before their time simply because the decks were rusting away.

 

Twenty years on and my East-Lawn focus is pretty much entirely now on building replacement Westwood cutter decks and associated parts, helping to keep these much loved machines running is still a hobby but now with an added cause in many ways. It's an evenings and weekends industry. The farm livestock management role I have is full time and that keeps me very busy during the day!

 

I'm not the greatest of environmentalists but there is something positive to be had from giving a customers thirty year old machine the chance of another thirty years of useful life. We already throw to much away in my mind and by doing so we fuel the commercial conveyor belts of consumerism, at our own expense.

 

Recycling is just a fancy way of saying throwing away, Repairing will always be the wise man's option A.