So this is the six bladed cylinder really good at handling larger quantities of grass really
throwing it into the back of the grass box but what happens is is that as you
start to get lower you start to get a wash boarding effect where you can see each blade
coming and taking a cut at a distance of about a centimetre and that's not apparent and you get a
smoother cut when you're above 15 millimetres so if I'm going to be mowing really low and I
want a really smooth finish then the option is to go for the 10 bladed cutting cylinder.
If I take this out
and just lay it down for comparison you can see the blades are much closer together because it's
the same diameter cylinder and it still has a sure-blade system but this is the sports blade
now because you're going to be cutting lower with the 10 bladed cylinder by definition the
same thickness of blade is just shaved off at the front machined off at the front here which now
gives us a blade at the cutting point of three millimetres so I can go really really low with
this so that's particularly good if you're a bowling green or a cricket wicket mower then
that really helps to get of course to the lower heights of cut but this one can't quite achieve.
The ten cylinder like I say gives a smoother finish at the lower heights of cut but again if
you want to scalp even lower than five millimetres then of course you'd use the 10 bladed cylinder.
Now normally I would keep my 10 bladed cylinder for absolute best so I want to keep it sharp and
of course while you're scalping you're much more likely to pick up soil or stones that weren't
normally caught by your mower at your normal mowing height and I I'd really be reluctant to
damage or blunten this cylinder if I can possibly avoid it but let's show the mowing with this.
So these are the contents of the grass box when using the 10 bladed cylinder and actually although
it's just grass clippings by definition if I'm mowing lower I need to mow more regularly so I
really am cutting short grass shorter. Third of the grass plant height rule iff I'm mowing
it 10 millimetres I need to mow the grass when it gets to 15 millimetres back down to 10 millimetres
again so my grass clippings will be much shorter than normal with a six-bladed cylinder.
So much finer grass clippings all together and I'm just going to empty those out
next to the six bladed cartridge. You'll see as well this is a little bit darker I've just
treated the lawn with iron so actually I'm mowing now because I'm mowing lower I'm mowing
more moss and dead moss which is black and so it's making that appear darker in colour.
So scalping with the 10 bladed cylinder at three millimetres high and I've removed the
rake because the rake will just dig into the ground at these really low heights of cut.
I'm going to leave the grass box off so you can see the grass that's coming out.
and now you can see taking that down even lower down to three millimetres high really there's
very little remaining grass and it's only the grasses that are lying flat which are still there.