K praised by Meldrum House Golf Club, providing high capacity and productivity on turf tyres, ensuring a sensitive footprint. Delivered alongside an L2452 with loader by HRN Tractors in August 2024, the addition of the higher horsepower model has given the team the ability to tackle larger and more specialist tasks inhouse, to the benefit of both the golf course and wider estate.
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Kubota M4073 praised for delivering power and productivity at Meldrum House Golf Club
ubota M4073 has been
K praised by Meldrum House Golf Club, providing high capacity and productivity on turf tyres, ensuring a sensitive footprint. Delivered alongside an L2452 with loader by HRN Tractors in August 2024, the addition of the higher horsepower model has given the team the ability to tackle larger and more specialist tasks inhouse, to the benefit of both the golf course and wider estate.
Meldrum House was acquired by Apex Hotels in May 2024. As part of ongoing investment in the site, Golf Course and Grounds Manager Kenny Harper, was tasked with the replacement of the clubs tractor fleet – and he knew exactly where to turn, thanks to his longstanding relationship with local dealers HRN.“ A major part of any equipment purchase for us is the back-up support we receive, and we know we have that in HRN” Kenny explains.“ With that assured, we then needed to know that the machines themselves were up to task when HRN switched franchises to Kubota. They brought in demonstrator models and it wasn’ t long before we decided that was spot on too.”
“ Increasingly, we were finding implements were putting too
60 GroundskeepingJournal. co. uk | July / August 2025