After a very busy winter, the ten brand new New Holland Groundcare T3000 tractors that arrived at South Lanarkshire Council last November, will now be out and about carrying out their summer duties in the county’s parks and on the golf courses.The ten tractors, supplied by the Groundcare division at Bryson Tractors in Lanark, spent the winter clearing snow from pavements and gritting surfaces to keep the ice away.

The council already runs several large New Holland machines including T5000s and T6000s, which they use for grass and verge cutting. But this time they needed something smaller to handle the heavy snowfalls that were predicted last winter.

South Lanarkshire Council’s Fleet Manager, Dave Gibson said: “The service and quality of vehicles are of a good standard which has been working well for us. We have found that the combination of weight and usability has improved our footpath snow clearing ability.