Hello my name is Austin Jarrett and I'm from  Allett Mowers and today I want to talk you through  

our new Allett C-27 product. This is a smaller  version of our C34 which we've been selling for  

about 15 years in to football stadiums and very  large gardens. Our customers are asking us for  

a more compact version to work in more confined  areas or where a smaller stripe is required and  

this is particularly from large gardens but also  from the American baseball infield market. So I  

want to talk you through this product now. So  first let's look at the front of the machine  

and talk about the grass box. So the Allett grass  boxes are known for their sturdiness this grass  

box tips nicely frontwards so the material doesn't  spill out onto the cylinder and these grass boxes  

are extremely robust, large capacity and we need  that in particular when we doing other operations  

especially other than grass cutting. It hangs  on this grass box hoop which is adjustable so I  

can adjust the position of that depending on what  operation I'm doing and I can push that away for  

storage to take up less space. If we look at the  front roller this of course controls the height of  

cut or the depth of cultivation of this machine.  It's adjustable on either side you generally use  

a height bar to make sure that we are accurately  controlling those heights and depths. It's large  

diameter got large bearings it's also got a  scraper just behind as well so that no there is no  

buildup of material which would alter our height  of cut. In this unit at the moment we have an  

eight bladed cylinder cartridge in. The 8 bladed  cylinder cartridge cuts the grass beautifully it  

gives us about 148 clips per metre so it's a nice  time to cut at 30 millimetres height or lower that  

will give you no washboard effect and will give  a really nice tight cut. The cylinder discharges  

from the top directly into the grass box because  of its speed and the air flow it really puts all  

the material straight into the grass box  which sits very close in to the cylinder.  

The adjustments for the cylinder to bottom blade  is done just here and here so by just using a 14  

millimetre or 9/16 spanner I just need the one and  then I can adjust my closeness of my cylinder to  

bottom blade. The height of cut on this machine  can be varied between 8 millimetres and 50  

millimetres so that's a really good versatile high  of cut range. We used a six and a half horsepower  

engine the GX 160 we use this because our  customers love it especially in the professional  

market with its easy starting and reliability and  also ease of spare parts throughout the world.  

That engine is switched on and off from the  handlebars from a safety perspective and it is  

pull start so there's no battery on the machine to  go flat over winter. The machine is all controlled  

from the back here from the handlebars. So  I engage my cylinder drive here that's on an  

over centre lever which is a new feature giving  even more power to the cylinder so that we can  

cut longer grass or cultivate deeper than we've  ever done before. We have a deadman handle here  

and I simply control my drive to my rear roller  through the rear bale bar here and that gives me  

some real nice feathering so that I can adjust my  speeds especially if I'm working in more confined  

areas. The rear roller on this machine if I just  turn the machine around you can see the rear  

roller is a two-piece rear roller with a rubber  coating- vulcanised rubber coating which gives  

excellent traction without having to put any  traction grips onto the roller this is really  

good especially when you've got concrete areas or  hard surface areas the machine is very quiet but  

also if you need to move this machine around and  drive up ramps that gives it exceptional traction.

So the really great thing about the C27 and these  C34 is this ability to be able to change the  

cartridges so we have a really great mower that  cuts really well and fills the grass box very  

clearly but what we can do is remove that when  we've finish mowing and to get great sports turf  

and great lawns just cylinder mowing is not enough  what we need to do is to do other cultivations and  

this range of cartridges here in addition to  the cylinder allows you to more holistically  

look after your sports surface or lawn and  do the cultivations that are necessary. So  

to briefly talk you through eight bladed cylinder  and we also have a six-bladed cylinder if you're  

normally mowing much more long grass and leaving  it fairly long you might want to go for the  

six bladed cylinder instead of the eight but the  eight is by far our most popular cutting cylinder.

The first one I'm going to show you is the  scarifier cartridge. You can see this is quite  

an aggressive and good spacing on this cartridge.  It's made for going deeper sub six millimetres  

deep into the soil and this will prune roots and  pull out thatch and organic material out of the  

grass and it can also be used for preparation  for over seeding. Aeration is important and most  

compaction happens in the very top surface  so for a very quick easy low-level aeration  

then this sorrel roller is just absolutely  ideal it's so easy to fit in the machine,  

the area that you can cover is a lot very  quickly it only works quite shallow about  

25-30 millimetres depending on the wear on the  tines but the main thing is that nobody knows  

that you've been over the ground it really leaves  no disturbance so you can fit this in at any time.  

We have a brush cartridge- the brush is useful for  picking up debris picking up divots after studs  

have been over the sport surface or you can take  the grass box off and just use it for brushing  

in top dressing it's very effective at that.  This one's one of my favourite most versatile  

cartridges whether it be picking up leaves or  loose debris on the surface or for setting the  

spring tines even more deeply you can fetch out  dead material from the bottom of the sward. It  

doesn't cut into the soil it's gentle it can  be used pretty much at any time of the year  

but it's extremely versatile and gentle it's very  difficult to cause damage on the grass itself. Use  

it regularly and this whole little and often of  removing thatch material out of grass really works  

well with this cartridge but this can also be used  without fear of damage in hybrid sports surfaces.

Finally a very intensive cartridge here  this is our verticut cartridge and you  

can see the blades on this are aggressive,  very close spaced but because the speed of  

these are spinning it really does cut  very neat slots in we're not normally  

working subsoil level we're normally working  above the soil and in the thatch but the way  

this works it picks the material up so cleanly  and puts that right to the back of the grass  

box it's a really very effective tool and  especially for pruning pruning rhizomes and  

stolons to get new growth appearing this  really works and invigorates the sward.

So I've just used the spring tine rake cartridge  and you can see this is the grass clippings that  

have come from the 8 bladed cylinder and this  is the material that's come out with the spring  

tine rake cartridge so you can see that this is  material it's dead growth and if you've got moss  

and things like that that this will gently pull  that material out of the sward. So this is the  

most aggressive cartridge we do is the scarifier  cartridge and I haven't actually covered anywhere  

near the same areas I did with the spring tine  rake which is much more gentle and the materials  

got more soil on it because actually works  slightly deeper and we have soil at the bottom of  

the roots on the plants that we've actually pruned  and removed in the same process you can see a  

slight difference again and then type of material  is brought out with the more aggressive cartridge.

The great thing about the C27 and C34 is  this interchangeability of cartridge and  

it's important that the machine is designed  robustly and that we give you the accuracy at  

the same time as giving you the versatility that  interchangeable cartridges give you. I'm going  

to show you how simple it is to change one of  these cartridges over. And there we have it that  

cartridge is completely secure in that unit and I  will need to change the height of cut because the  

cartridges are required at different heights  but there we have a cartridge change simple,  

easy and very reliable. Thank you for watching  the video I hope you found it helpful this C 27  

unit is really so versatile the stripes are  so strong but the health of your grass is  

going to be exceptional if you do all of these  cultivation tasks please find more information  

on our website at www.allett.co.uk or  send us an email. Thankyou very much!