So within the interchangeable cartridge system the ultra-change system we also
have a lawn brush so let's have a look at that and how to use it
.This is the lawn brush out of the ultra change cartridge system for the Stirling's and one thing
that you may notice if you're a Kensington or Liberty user this brush is a much stiffer more
aggressive brush altogether it doesn't mean that it needs to be aggressive all the time because
that's about partly to do with the depth. So again what depth setting should I set it at?
Actually you know you it depends on how long your grass is so the brush is used for you can brush
out thatch and we'll show it working deeply to do that but you could also if the lawns left untidy
after doing particularly the dethatching operation you could use the brush or the scarifier cartridge
to clean up after that. I like to use the brush sometimes in the Summer where the grass doesn't
actually need cutting so what I might actually do is use the brush just to help brush the grass
upright and then lay it back down with the roller and put in a nice strong stripe without actually
cutting the grass itself. You can also use this for brushing in top dressing so if you're doing a
levelling operation I'm putting lovely dry sand into a dry sward then this brush spinning at
high speed will help brush the material forwards until that material finds a hole or a hollow for
it to go into that then doesn't get brushed as you continue to go forward so nice for levelling there
and if you if you have a really short sward and you are affected a lot by worms especially in the
Autumn time then the worm casts the casting worms cause those little coins of soil which never seem
to quite recover well and also give an opportunity for weed grasses to to get into by using this
regularly then it will help disperse those soil those soil spots that the worms bring up in their
casts. So it's quite a useful cartridge to have for lots of different purposes it's not the one
that you're going to put on the top of your list but if you've already bought the other cartridges
it's it's like with all armaments you are properly armed to handle all types of situations
so let's take a look at this cartridge in operation in the machine.
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So the brush cartridge does a really great job of just picking out the brown material in the grass
and the reason it does that is because the bristle tine itself can't pick up any plants and put them
into the grass box and it doesn't cut into the soil so you're not getting any soil in there
at all it's just Brown loose dead material and it's really ever so effective my word of warning
with the brush as with all brushes it's spinning around really quite quickly so really just use it
over the surface once otherwise it can burn the leaves of the grass plant secondly if you set
it too deep it really does pull the machine along and in fact you don't really need to use the rear
roller drive because the brush is pulling the machine along but the other thing about being
setting too deep is the bristle itself needs to be targeted at where the debris is and if you
allow the bristle actually to bend too far back as it's brushing then you will start to get breakage
of the bristle itself so please just pay special attention to make sure that this cartridge lasts
you as long as possible before you have to replace the bristles that you don't set it unnecessarily
deep and and with brushes deeper isn't always best because if it's brushing with just the
bristle like so it actually is much more effective than if the bristle you're trying to pick up the
material with the back of the bristle itself. So just some words of warning on that please
set the depth so it's getting your target debris and really cleaning up it's a fantastic clean-up
tool this one so here's the debris here you can see very few leaves in it at all