welcome to the channel it's matt the garden and lawn care guy and today we're going to be doing
the first cut with this swardman elektra 45 so i've got the machine set up i'm ready to
go you can see a beautiful red colour and super nice grass box so i've just set the swardman up
on the highest setting which is just over 40 mil it's like a quick release clasp on the side here
and then coming around this way there's a retaining bolt here just an allen key and
you get all the parts that you need in this little bag which you can keep safe up here
so i used to have this bit of an issue with my other cylinders as well is this sleeper bed coming
quite close to the grass and you've got the motor on the side of the mower so what i think i'll have
to do is basically mow in the other direction so the clean face almost is pointing in and it gives
me a bit more clearance i've also noticed that it's such a true cut i don't even think there's
hardly anything coming off so you can see in there just a couple of whiskers now this has been cut on
i don't know maybe 40 or 50 ml on the bosch and you can see here there's actually
nothing coming off so what that means is this must be a much truer cut than the
rotary mower and i'm actually going to drop this down to let's say 30 mil and see how we get going
let's go
okay so you can see it's cutting really really nicely and as this is a bit of a bigger machine
i'm getting sort of super thick stripes but you can also still see from the
height of cut it's really not taking much off at all so i'm actually going to drop the height
down again and i mean those bosch cutters were set i think it must have been like 40 odd mil
but this is just hardly taking a lick just a small little snippet off the top so i think i'm going
to drop it again to maybe 25 mil and finish the first cut at 30 mil and then drop it to 25 and
just to see what we've got left now obviously there's a bit of setting up and getting used
to this obviously when i'm in full swing i'm not gonna have to make this many adjustments
to the mower i'm just finding the right height so that's us at 25 mil
it's looking super nice made a bit of a mistake on this one i was concentrating on too many things
should have done another one that way but overall that is not bad for March
look at that beautiful and if you have a look at what's inside the box these are like
really really fine skimmings so you can see overall the cut quality is beautiful and it's
giving me a really nice stripe and it's not bad at all considering it's what March time
it's the first cut i've done with a roller mower and really nice and easy to move the
differential makes a huge difference to the manoeuvrability of the mower
so overall after the first mow you can see the grass looks absolutely stunning consider this is
March time i can't really ask for much better than that some things that really stood out to me was
just how quiet it is you can't really believe how quiet it is the wider width of the mower also made
a difference so you can see these stripes are like a double pass stripe and they really set the lawn
off and also just like the fineness of the cut and it was quite easy to get used to nice and easy to
move that rear split roller makes a big difference i had a couple of problems with just like
stuff laid out around the garden like the sleepers and i had to mow in a certain way to get past them
and also the planter just there because the grass box at the front's got quite a bit of width on it
i couldn't get to the end without colliding with that so i'm just going to make a couple of changes
around the garden just to optimise it and get used to the mower really leave me a comment down in the
comment section below let me know how you think it went and if you've got any questions about this
machine but overall i'm pretty impressed it's matt the garden lawn care guy and if you've enjoyed
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