Hello I'm Austin Jarrett from Allett Mowers. Today we're at Milford Hall Cricket Club
and we're talking about one of the very special machines in our range the Allett Westminster 20H.
This machine only comes in 20 inches mowing width and it is very very good at mowing at very low
heights of cut. We're talking about below two and a half millimetres is its minimum height of cut
up to the highest height of cut of nineteen millimetres or three quarters of an inch.
That's not very high for a lawn at all so only for the very finest lawns.
Where this machine really comes into its own is at the low heights of cut doing what a cylinder
mower does best cutting short grass shorter. You can see it working here on a cricket wicket
we're mowing at two and a half millimetres high here this machine will do this all day
long. But that is a very specific height of cut that we require for a cricket wicket.
The height of cut for club bowls as well it is absolutely ideal.
So here we are in close up with the Westminster 20H and the first thing you'll notice is the
cutting cylinder here because we're mowing so low it's really important to avoid a washboard
effect that we have a really high clip rate and this is the only machine that we have in the
Allett range that uses a 12 bladed cutting cylinder giving a tremendously high clip
rate. The machine itself is 92 kilograms that's just over 200 pounds of course that's important
to make sure the machine sits down on the ground properly for these very accurate heights of cut
and then whatever striping we can achieve with these shorter heights of cut
again that extra weight will help. But the weight is in the robustity of the machine because
everything has to be so accurate that the machine chassis needs to be completely and utterly rigid.
The grass box at the front fits right up against the cylinder so every piece of debris
that is cut goes straight into the grass box and that grass box is 92 litres so it's absolutely
ample for most bowling green and cricket wicket applications. We don't want the grass box to be
too big because again as the weight builds up in the grass box it presses down on the
front roller and effectively changes the height of cut so a nice compact grass box.
Because everything on the Westminster is so height of cut critical we can't afford for there to be
any build up on the front roller because that would change the height of cut so we have built
in here using these four screws here an adjustable blade which will scrape the material of worm cast
or whatever it is that's starting to change the diameter of that roller to keep it absolutely
right and the same applied to the rear roller as well so on our aluminium roller again we don't
want any pickup and you'll see here that there is an adjustable plate here which pushes up against
the rear roller to keep that clean too. The steel front roller of course controls the height of cut
and we have really accurate micro adjust here on this one side plus both sides are bolted as well
after you've made the adjustment. One of the features I really like out of this machine
is as well just behind the rear roller here difficult for you to see there is a raking
system which just helps comb the grass before it's presented to this 12 bladed cutting cylinder.
Honda engine of course we like these on these products this is the GX 200 which has got bags
of power for a little 20-inch machine like this and will just last forever. Of course Honda
engines why do our customers love those? They're just so easy to start and just so reliable.
If we look at the back of the machine you'll see here the really nice shiny rear roller and that
of course is because it's made of aluminium we are trying to save weight where we can.
This rear roller is split into two sections and we have the ability to
be able to differential drive these as well so when we're turning at the ends
it doesn't scuff but it still gives us really nice straight lining ability too.
Importantly from the control position here is the handlebars. We've got a really lovely soft
grip here nice and warm first thing in the morning comfortable to hold.
This is the bale bar which engages the drive to the rear roller and actually
the rear roller and the cylinder are engaged together when you decide you're ready to mow
you just pull out a little lever out of the side here and that means that when
I engage the bail bar it engages both the rear roller drive and also the cylinder.
The handlebars themselves are height adjustable I can back off this handle here and that gives me
a position that is most comfortable for me and then I can just tighten that back up again.
I have the throttle which gives me my speed control. My clip rate is is set on this machine
to 145 clips per metre which is really nice and fine so it doesn't matter what speed I go
i just choose the speed that's most comfortable and gives me the best grass box fill.
Finally at the handlebar position here we do have a hand brake this machine is of a weight that we
need to have the hand brake so that the machine doesn't disappear when we're working on a slope
and we go and empty the grass box. So I'm allowed to just apply the brake here on this handbrake.
Because so much is included within this machine there is just one optional extra
that you need to look at. Because we have quite a delicate aluminium rear roller on this machine
and also the bottom blade and cylinder are so fine on it it's best if you're transporting this over
long distances or over hard surfaces to order the wheel kit which goes with this which is optional.
The stub shafts on the machine come as standard in fact and then you order a pair of wheels like this
on the part number WSK20 and this wheel kit just slips straight onto these onto these stub shafts.
Also included in the kit is a stand like this if I drop this stand down first you can see that
picks the machine up in order that I can then fit the wheel kit unencumbered. It has a neat little
locking mechanism just on the end here which then is very quick release clip and I pull that
off too. So that's a real nice feature to help protect the machine too. So if you want a really
fine machine you want to take it to the next level with your cylinder you want to mow particularly
low then this club machine the Westminster 20H is definitely worth looking at and it comes at quite
a budget price even though it's right at the top end of our garden machinery homeowner type range
before we go into professional products but it really does give an amazing finish and it will
do it for a long time because the machine is so strong . If you need any more information
on this product or any other product in our range please visit allett.co.uk. Thanks for watching.