Hello my name is Austin Jarrett from Allett mowers. Today I want to look at the adjustment of
the turf rake on these products. The Turf Rake is fitted as standard on the Liberty 43, the
Expert Kensington range and also the Buckingham range. We're going to look at how to adjust these
on the Liberty 43 and the Kensington's. The grass rake is a really great feature
and the way that it works is just behind the front roller and in front of the cylinder the rake
just scratches the lawn surface to line up the grass plants. I've got this rake here
and I think this illustrates that when you put this on the ground and pull this forward
that the grass plants all start to line up. In particular it stands up the long blades of grass
and what I really like about it is on the weed grasses that grow flat in the sward it makes
them stand up they're more likely to get cut and again it gives them a harder time and they are
less likely to thrive in your lawn or spread and grow out. So let's get this adjustment correct.
So that we can understand better what's going on I'm going to gently tip the
machine on its side so we can have a look at what the height of cut is and
also the depth of the Turf Rake and then we can make decisions on the adjustment.
The beauty of these battery products is you can tip them on the side like this without spilling
any fuel but let's just look at the components. I have my front roller here which controls my height
of cut. This is the turf rake which we're going to adjust. This is the bottom blade with the cylinder
and this is where the cutting action. If I measure to the top of the blade to the line between the
bottom of the front and the rear roller then I will have my height of cut. So I'm going to do
that simply with a piece of timber putting that between the rear roller and the front roller
which is what would sit on the turf and then what I can do is measure to the top of the bottom blade
and I will get a measurement. This is set at the moment at just over 2 so I am getting a 20
millimetres measurement so that's correct. The height that the or rather the depth that the
tines should go into the ground is two to five millimetres below the height of cut.
So the deepest I'm going to set these is with a gap here of 12 millimetres and if I measure this
at the moment I've got to the position that we're normally working at I now need to adjust these
so that I've got about 15 millimetres. So that's what I'm going to do I can adjust on
the slot on this side and at the other side and as this rotates then my depth
of penetration and that tine will also alter. So that's this one here half inch spanner
and the same on the other side and then I can go through the adjustment.
So you can see how this assembly now by moving in the slot moves deeper or more shallow.
By bringing the piece of timber back in and I can measure the adjustment here
and once I know that I'm at the correct depth then i can tighten this back up again.
So remember if you change the height of cut you also need to just do a double check on the depth
of penetration of the turf rake. I absolutely recommend not to be setting this deeper than five
millimetres. If you set it deeper than that you will start to damage the turf rather than rake it
and also the roller has to drive this product along and if you start to put the rake in too deep
then it will just take too much draught force to push that along and you will see slippage on the
rear roller so make sure you don't set it deeper than five millimetres into the height of cut.
So that's it that's how you adjust this really nice feature of this product
giving you stronger stripes and healthier turf. Thank you very much for watching I hope you get
to adjust your Turf Rake accurately with the knowledge that you now have and please visit
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