We've talked about having a beautiful lawn and it's not just about cylinder mowing the lawn
it's about the other things that we do so let me just quickly talk through the six additional
cartridges that are available to go into your Kensington mower. They're available in 14,
17 and 20 inch widths and let me start with this one. This is the 10 bladed cartridge.
The cartridge here spins the blade spins at exactly the same speed as a six blade one does but
what that means is it gives me more clips. We've produced another video on the difference between
clip rates and please look that up but the thing we're going to get with the 10 bladed cylinder
over a six bladed cylinder is just a finer cut and you will see that the finer cut that that this
produces is absolutely amazing especially when you go down to 15 millimetres height of cut and lower.
You must then use the 10 bladed cylinder. If your intention is to stay at 20 millimetres and above
then really you'll get no advantage from using this ten bladed cylinder.
Next is the most versatile cartridge that we have in the range and this is the scarifier.
The scarifier is made up of a lot of spring tines. These spring tines gently rake into the surface
and remove primarily loose material. It's fantastic for picking up leaves and acorns
and pine needles but really what it's designed for is the cultivation of the lawn and it really
will stand lateral growth up and any long strands of grass that are laying down, weed leaves that
lay down it can bring back up ready for mowing as well and after you've applied iron to your
moss and it's all died then again this will rake it out. The beauty is with this system
is that this cartridge puts all the debris you pick up into the grass box so job done.
Verticut- If you've bought the scarifier cartridge
this has to be next on your list. It does remove organic material from the depth of the
sward but the thing I particularly like about this is the cuts that it makes. You get new
growth coming out of those cuts and that really helps with increasing the density of the sward.
Next is a slightly more aggressive cartridge and you can see these hook shaped blades are spaced
further apart if they were any closer than this you'd be you'd be pulling out whole chunks of
your lawn but this is just for that a little bit more aggression and especially for autumn
time cultivations use it in a couple of different directions probably in a diamond pattern is best
and this will really help to alleviate compaction and be more aggressive in the way that you remove
the material. A combination of these three cartridges really does give you a great treatment
plan for your lawn. The brush cartridge again this can be used for a gentle removal of thatch
or moss but I like to use this if I've got a high number of worm casts in springtime and
autumn and I need to just agitate those and spread them around. If I'm top dressing and
I want to to level out the top dressing I can actively do this with the brush.
Finally this is the aerator cartridge this cartridge doesn't have any drive on the side
and as this goes forward these little spikes just go into the ground. It's not an amazing
amount of depth and it's particularly useful if you've got a very delicate sward sitting on a
coconut thatch layer coconut husk thatch layer and what this will do is just start to poke holes in
that to allow the water to get down into the sward. It's not a highly aggressive aeration
tool and you need to be aware of that. So with the combination of all of these cartridges you can see
how you've got a complete green keepers tool kit all in this one mower the Allett Kensington.