Hello my name is Austin Jarrett from Allett Mowers.
Today I want to talk to you about the Liberty 35.
You're maybe at the point where you've decided you want to buy a cylinder mower because a cylinder
gives a really clean healthy cut to the grass. They have the ability to be able to mow really low
if that's what you want but the striping ability of a cylinder mower just cannot be matched.
So now that you've chosen to go down this route I'd like to tell you about
this particular model because this might be the one for you. This is the Allett Liberty 35
it's a 14 inch wide self-propelled cylinder mower. This mower weighs about 26.5 kilograms
so that it can be carried up and down steps relatively easily
and it's for lawns of about 150 square metres.
You can mow 100 square metres in about nine minutes or in half an hour I can mow about
330 square metres just to give you a rough idea of how long it's going to take you to mow your lawn.
Why do customers like this Liberty model? In the four years since we've
launched this this has become one of our most successful product ranges and the reason is
because of this little 40 volt battery. This 40 volt battery packs 4 amp hours of energy and
it will drive this mower for about 35 to 45 minutes depending on the conditions.
That easily gets most lawns moan if it doesn't then just buy another battery and
you can just keep swapping the batteries over to give almost continuous mowing.
What that brings to this mower is cordless. We've had electric with trailing cords
plugged into the house or the extension lead for quite some time but this mower has now
really overtaken that because cordless is just absolutely the way to go. It just makes the mower
feel lighter and you've got the freedom to go no matter how far away you want from the house.
The machine is quieter because it's electric drive and that's what this brings and we've all
got to love the whole environmentally friendly thing of not having an engine on our mower,
the noise that it creates for our neighbours but also just the emissions and the environmental
considerations nowadays of burning fossil fuels. There is no engine. A lot of unreliability factors
of mowers generally come around from engines and fuel and if you are unable to start an
engine then you haven't got to be concerned about that at all with an Allett Liberty.
You can take this battery as well and it is an expensive part of buying this mower and you
can put this battery into a whole range of other products from Greenworks tools
and that would include things like chainsaws, strimmers, blowers, hedge cutters, long reach saws
and a whole range of other products. That really helps spread the cost of this around and makes
the jobs in the garden so much easier. This is the Greenworks 40 volt 4 amp hour battery it really
packs some power and it's so easy just to put into the power head of this mower and insert it.
I have a safety key as well so that even if the battery is in I can completely isolate the machine
so if it's in storage I haven't got to worry about the kids being able to get into trouble with it.
It's really easy to insert and take out and it's equally the same when I want to charge
the battery. There's indicator lights on top of the battery when they fall to below one I then put
it on to charge in the charger and it takes about an hour and a half to recharge the battery fully.
Lithium-ion batteries are great. What I can do with a lithium-ion battery
is I can charge and discharge it about 1800 times
and after that time it will be able to hold about 85 percent of the charge
that it was able to when it was absolutely brand new that represents years and years of mowing.
So
the grass box of the Liberty 35 located at the front and is made of polypropylene.
If i bump into anything it doesn't scratch or dent or will not go rusty.
The locations at the front which is nice from the operator's point of view you can always see
whether you can make that next run or not or whether it needs emptying now. It doesn't get
too full at 32 litres that's plenty. It has a nice handle grip here to be able to carry it to the bin
and it empties fully because there are no edges on the inside here to prevent the clippings from
coming out cleanly. The grass box locates on this hoop at the front which is nice and stable.
Of course the serious part of this mower is about the cylinder. On this machine we have
a five-bladed cylinder which gives 77 clips per metre so that means the cylinder comes round onto
the bottom blade about every centimetre and a half we get a full clip of grass. If I tip this back
of course the big thing about cylinder is it cuts like scissors and so when i take my piece of paper
and put this in here you can see clearly demonstrated that that cuts like scissors.
That's really good for the plant. We get much less damage at the injury site
we get less bleeding we get less moisture loss from the grass plant that prevents disease from
entering the plant we get a much more uniform cut across the whole width of the machine.
The height of the bottom blade above the grass is determined by the height and position of
the front roller. The front rollers made of polyethylene that doesn't get rusty
and the way that I adjust the height of the roller relative to the mower
is with this dial and I have six positions that I can use to adjust that.
The six positions go from 6 millimetres to nine millimetres, 13 millimetres,
18, 25 and finally the highest height of cut is 32 millimetres. If you decided to buy a cylinder
mower it's probably because you want to get some really beautiful stripes on your lawn too
and one of the things that really makes those stripes is this rear roller. So we have a single
piece solid steel 14 inch wide roller at the back and of course that is a driven rear roller and we
control that from the handlebars. The handlebars are a really nice height. They're probably the
highest handlebars that we have in our homeowner range. If you're tall this is a good setup.
The electric controls are just in this panel here; two-stage engagement of the electric
drive to the motor, press the button, pull the lever and I have speed control from one to six
and that controls both the drive of the rear roller speed and also the cylinder speed.
The bale bar is engaged while the reel is running in order to take the drive to the rear roller.The
nice thing about the safety of this control set is that when I release everything on the
handlebars everything stops. The handlebars fold at this point here and by releasing this knob here
I can fold the handlebars over for more compact storage or putting this in the boot of the car.
If you want a great lawn you have to use a cylinder mower
but that's not enough in itself for a really healthy lawn that stripes strongly.
We need to remove all the dead organic material in the sward and we have an interchangeable
cartridge system here which means we can remove the cylinder and insert a scarifier.
That's very easily done by removing two studs either side here and then four retained screws in
the side guard using this allen key provided with the machine and then that gives you access to the
side of the machine and by removing this pulley in this v-belt it allows me to remove the cartridge
and then when I insert it I can put the pulley back on again and reassemble.
It's not the quickest change cartridge system that we have
but it's still pretty nimble and can be done in five minutes. We advertise this machine as being a
scarifier only option but we do have other 14 inch cartridges which you can put into this machine.
But what you do need to know is that this machine as we've looked at already has six positions
and those six positions we cannot access the heights in between. When you put a steel bladed
cartridge into this it either goes too deep or not enough. Carefully handled you'll get
away with that because over time you'll be using that scarifier generally at its lowest
height but you do just need to be aware if you're going to fit other cartridges in here
that the height of cut is relatively limited. The other thing about the really versatile scarifier
cartridge which can be fitted into this machine is it not only removes the thatch and the moss
on your lawn but also other debris such as leaves and pine needles and even acorns. Let's go and mow
100 square metres so you can see what that looks like and how the stripes sit on that.
So there we have it 100 square metres mown in just under 9 minutes and that
includes taking the grass clippings and and dumping them in into a very local
wheelie bin. But that will give you a really good idea and and that means that in half an
hour you can easily mow 330 square metres which is generally within the discharge of one battery.
So there we are don't forget these products are made in Great Britain proudly. If you
want a fine lawn you want lower heights of cut you want to be able to do the cultivations to
make a really healthy green lawn then really you must consider the Liberty 35. You can
find more information about this product on our website at www.allett.co.uk Thanks for listening