Eight is an early age to start anything. When Josep Arnolot was eight, he started mowing lawns with his father Ernest.
Since 1977 Ernest has owned and operated Catalana D'Espais Verds, S.l. in Barcelona, Spain. His company specializes in landscape installation and maintenance of public and private gardens, along with the maintenance of many high profile government and private industry facilities. Today, Josep is grown, and still mows lawns for his father's business. But now it is much different.
"When I first started mowing we had mowers that moved very slowly," Josep explains. "We needed mowers that could work faster so we could use fewer employees." Ernest says they found that change In 1991 with the Walker mower. "When I first saw the Walker in operation, I knew it could do the work of three people, and we'd be a better business right away," says Ernest.
Ernest says they made their money back on the Walker faster than any equipment investment he has ever made. "I knew we would work faster, but I thought there might be a hidden cost for maintaining the Walker," relays Ernest. "To my surprise, it was less expensive overall to maintain than many of our other pieces of equipment."
Catalana D'Espais Verds, S.L. now employees 12 people, three of which are Walker operators. Ernest says the number of employees actually mowing would be as high as 10 if they did not have the Walkers.
For Josep, who is now beginning to oversee the mowing operations, the Walker is what keeps his mowing crews moving. "I love the Walkers," explains Josep. "I cannot live without a Walker."
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