Hello my name is Austin Jarrett and I'm from Allett Mowers and today I want to talk you through
our new Allett C-27 product. This is a smaller version of our C34 which we've been selling for
about 15 years in to football stadiums and very large gardens. Our customers are asking us for
a more compact version to work in more confined areas or where a smaller stripe is required and
this is particularly from large gardens but also from the American baseball infield market. So I
want to talk you through this product now. So first let's look at the front of the machine
and talk about the grass box. So the Allett grass boxes are known for their sturdiness this grass
box tips nicely frontwards so the material doesn't spill out onto the cylinder and these grass boxes
are extremely robust, large capacity and we need that in particular when we doing other operations
especially other than grass cutting. It hangs on this grass box hoop which is adjustable so I
can adjust the position of that depending on what operation I'm doing and I can push that away for
storage to take up less space. If we look at the front roller this of course controls the height of
cut or the depth of cultivation of this machine. It's adjustable on either side you generally use
a height bar to make sure that we are accurately controlling those heights and depths. It's large
diameter got large bearings it's also got a scraper just behind as well so that no there is no
buildup of material which would alter our height of cut. In this unit at the moment we have an
eight bladed cylinder cartridge in. The 8 bladed cylinder cartridge cuts the grass beautifully it
gives us about 148 clips per metre so it's a nice time to cut at 30 millimetres height or lower that
will give you no washboard effect and will give a really nice tight cut. The cylinder discharges
from the top directly into the grass box because of its speed and the air flow it really puts all
the material straight into the grass box which sits very close in to the cylinder.
The adjustments for the cylinder to bottom blade is done just here and here so by just using a 14
millimetre or 9/16 spanner I just need the one and then I can adjust my closeness of my cylinder to
bottom blade. The height of cut on this machine can be varied between 8 millimetres and 50
millimetres so that's a really good versatile high of cut range. We used a six and a half horsepower
engine the GX 160 we use this because our customers love it especially in the professional
market with its easy starting and reliability and also ease of spare parts throughout the world.
That engine is switched on and off from the handlebars from a safety perspective and it is
pull start so there's no battery on the machine to go flat over winter. The machine is all controlled
from the back here from the handlebars. So I engage my cylinder drive here that's on an
over centre lever which is a new feature giving even more power to the cylinder so that we can
cut longer grass or cultivate deeper than we've ever done before. We have a deadman handle here
and I simply control my drive to my rear roller through the rear bale bar here and that gives me
some real nice feathering so that I can adjust my speeds especially if I'm working in more confined
areas. The rear roller on this machine if I just turn the machine around you can see the rear
roller is a two-piece rear roller with a rubber coating- vulcanised rubber coating which gives
excellent traction without having to put any traction grips onto the roller this is really
good especially when you've got concrete areas or hard surface areas the machine is very quiet but
also if you need to move this machine around and drive up ramps that gives it exceptional traction.
So the really great thing about the C27 and these C34 is this ability to be able to change the
cartridges so we have a really great mower that cuts really well and fills the grass box very
clearly but what we can do is remove that when we've finish mowing and to get great sports turf
and great lawns just cylinder mowing is not enough what we need to do is to do other cultivations and
this range of cartridges here in addition to the cylinder allows you to more holistically
look after your sports surface or lawn and do the cultivations that are necessary. So
to briefly talk you through eight bladed cylinder and we also have a six-bladed cylinder if you're
normally mowing much more long grass and leaving it fairly long you might want to go for the
six bladed cylinder instead of the eight but the eight is by far our most popular cutting cylinder.
The first one I'm going to show you is the scarifier cartridge. You can see this is quite
an aggressive and good spacing on this cartridge. It's made for going deeper sub six millimetres
deep into the soil and this will prune roots and pull out thatch and organic material out of the
grass and it can also be used for preparation for over seeding. Aeration is important and most
compaction happens in the very top surface so for a very quick easy low-level aeration
then this sorrel roller is just absolutely ideal it's so easy to fit in the machine,
the area that you can cover is a lot very quickly it only works quite shallow about
25-30 millimetres depending on the wear on the tines but the main thing is that nobody knows
that you've been over the ground it really leaves no disturbance so you can fit this in at any time.
We have a brush cartridge- the brush is useful for picking up debris picking up divots after studs
have been over the sport surface or you can take the grass box off and just use it for brushing
in top dressing it's very effective at that. This one's one of my favourite most versatile
cartridges whether it be picking up leaves or loose debris on the surface or for setting the
spring tines even more deeply you can fetch out dead material from the bottom of the sward. It
doesn't cut into the soil it's gentle it can be used pretty much at any time of the year
but it's extremely versatile and gentle it's very difficult to cause damage on the grass itself. Use
it regularly and this whole little and often of removing thatch material out of grass really works
well with this cartridge but this can also be used without fear of damage in hybrid sports surfaces.
Finally a very intensive cartridge here this is our verticut cartridge and you
can see the blades on this are aggressive, very close spaced but because the speed of
these are spinning it really does cut very neat slots in we're not normally
working subsoil level we're normally working above the soil and in the thatch but the way
this works it picks the material up so cleanly and puts that right to the back of the grass
box it's a really very effective tool and especially for pruning pruning rhizomes and
stolons to get new growth appearing this really works and invigorates the sward.
So I've just used the spring tine rake cartridge and you can see this is the grass clippings that
have come from the 8 bladed cylinder and this is the material that's come out with the spring
tine rake cartridge so you can see that this is material it's dead growth and if you've got moss
and things like that that this will gently pull that material out of the sward. So this is the
most aggressive cartridge we do is the scarifier cartridge and I haven't actually covered anywhere
near the same areas I did with the spring tine rake which is much more gentle and the materials
got more soil on it because actually works slightly deeper and we have soil at the bottom of
the roots on the plants that we've actually pruned and removed in the same process you can see a
slight difference again and then type of material is brought out with the more aggressive cartridge.
The great thing about the C27 and C34 is this interchangeability of cartridge and
it's important that the machine is designed robustly and that we give you the accuracy at
the same time as giving you the versatility that interchangeable cartridges give you. I'm going
to show you how simple it is to change one of these cartridges over. And there we have it that
cartridge is completely secure in that unit and I will need to change the height of cut because the
cartridges are required at different heights but there we have a cartridge change simple,
easy and very reliable. Thank you for watching the video I hope you found it helpful this C 27
unit is really so versatile the stripes are so strong but the health of your grass is
going to be exceptional if you do all of these cultivation tasks please find more information
on our website at www.allett.co.uk or send us an email. Thankyou very much!