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Awesome, hoping to get a 20 inch petrol to test soon, I must admit I was impressed with this one! What will the Fortis replace for you?

That too, what grass do you have? I mentioned in the video how hard it is to keep ryegrass striped for along time due to it's tendancy to want to stand up. How vintage are we talking? I love the old Qualcasts!

@@MowdLtd I would say my mower is from around the 70s. I've had it 25 years myself. My lawn is a mix of grasses but i overseeded with Johnsons Fine leaved Dwarf perennial Ryegrass, Strong Creeping Red Fescue, Slender Creeping Red Fescue.

The cylinder mower is the Allett Stirling, the rotary mower is the Cobra RM40. Both brilliant mowers, but the Stirling is high end for home lawns, around £4000 depending on which model and attachments. The Cobra is around £400 if I remember right, it's a beauty. We have also tested the Allett Cambridge recently - great home mower for around £2100, but we are about to release our review of the Cobra Fortis this Saturday too!

thanks for the reply! £4000 is very expensive for household😅

Oh for sure, you must really love grass for that, but it is an exceptional mower!

Thanks very much, great to know this is useful to our viewers! I do use some liquid treatments (kelp, humic acid, etc) but only because I love treating my lawn! We produce a total care plan that uses exclusively granular products as it's easier to apply and more consistent for our customers. I do like a good liquid selective weedkiller tho!

Oh and liquid iron when needing a rapid green up (for videoing or a party!)

Absolutely, amazing how many people apply the same fertiliser every feed without considering the nutrients, but that's why we are here, to bring awesome lawns to everyone with minimal effort on their part!

Absolutely, I've been know to use a grad Matt to stripe! Sharp blade is a good call, often overlooked and essential for grass health too

I'm that good I can cut stripes with my eyes shut! I have a mark on my grass box that lines up with the edge of stripes, as I'm cutting stripes that already exist. When cutting new stripes I do the basic pick a spot technique. But you do you, we all have our preferred methods, and if it works, it works

@@MowdLtd I was a head greenkeeper and I can assure you that you’re taught to look at a point ahead and watch all the way. You are talking rubbish and I know you are

@@MowdLtd pathetic

Absolutely if your cutting straight lines, I grew up cutting concentric circles on cricket out fields, can't pick a spot in the distance cutting circles! Pluss, I got to be honest, talking to camera, remembering what your trying to say and cutting is a bit tough, but I give it my best. Thanks for your comments, I've learnt loads from our viewers, different techniques and so on, the day you think you know it all is the day before you make a big mistake! Hope you enjoy the other videos more

​@@IanScott-cb6ln Best thing about the grounds keeping world is that the old-guard that taught us what we know, had their own way and passed it down. This video is clearly not aimed at teaching well-practiced folk on what they are doing wrong or how they could be doing it, but rather help to educate those that have never done it before. Everyone has the method that works for them, and some don't have a starting point at all. Would be cool if all ex-head greenkeepers would share their own knowledge on youtube to pass on their ways, rather than trolling and putting down other people's efforts at sharing information with the world.

Thanks for your kind words 😀 it was fun to try this, but alas our skills are in lawn care, ni video editing. I will try improve next time though. Any tips for me to improve?

@@MowdLtd ​​⁠​⁠ Im sorry for the mean words and the paragraph of text. here is what you could do. when the bag is in the air its choppy so film multiple cuts of the bag going up and falling and then choose one where it lands on its side. Then you could place markers on each corner of the bag and line up where the what I assume is a mower. Have one cut where you change the cylinder and one still image with the bag on in the same location. In the cut you change the cylinder try to throw the bag roughly where it was in one of the air. Then you can have the top half switch between the cut where you do everything and the one where you just throw. At the end move out of the way of the mower and “rotoscope” the falling bag and when i looks like its in front of the remove the bag and layer on the still image. Once again I apologize for the mean comment and the fact that this one is so long.

That's great advice thank you!

Replace it with fake turf? When we moved in this was all patio and stone, you must agree this is better? As for ugly, I respect your opinion, but our customers do like a stripe!

We had a viewer guess that this was an EGO mower! The at EGO battery is unreal tho, so much stored enery

Hi Kelly, it's an Allett Stirling with the changeable cartridges, I love it because it's so quick and easy to change, here I'm putting in a scarifying cassette to keep on top of the thatch

About 1 minute faster than the Allett Cambridge, but importantly no tools required!

It is an expensive machine that's for sure, but it is hand built and engineered in the UK. The model down is the Cambridge, that's more price competitive and a beautiful machine, check our review video of that!

Do you reckon? I can't say I've heard that about the Alletts. Have you used one? I do love my Balmoral tho 😁

That's a great shout, I was looking at doing a video on that.... You've made my mind up!

@@MowdLtdAnother cool video might be using sand mixed with some peat moss or Black Kow to level your lawn. You’d be using a lawn leveling rake and a broom to get it down to top of soil. That Amick roll aerator makes punching holes in your lawn a breeze. Aerate before putting down seed. Use the compost spreader to cover the seed! This is the part of lawn care I like the best. I just sprayed Hydretain on my lawn yesterday! Good luck and have fun!

Hi there, sorry I meant you can use the QC cartridge in the Cambridge - they have engineered an adapter to allow this (that is fitted on this particular machine) - I spoke with Allett today and this was their reply: You can put the QC cartridges in the Cambridge you just need the QC2RC conversion kit which is two brackets either side or the cylinder - this bracket has your grassbag hoop on and a guard to cover the open gap in the side guard for safety (and by law)

@@MowdLtd OK, thanks for the clarification. Have Allett advised what this conversion kit will cost? I cannot find anything about it online.

They've said they are available from local dealers for around £50 - I will do a short video on it next week if you like?

@@MowdLtd That would be very useful, so yes! Cheers!

That's a great shout - do you want to see it? I can get a video on that in the next few weeks if you like?

@@MowdLtd if you could, thar would be great. I’ve got a 14s but I got it at the end of last year and at the moment I am part way through removing some decking and looking to extend the grass a bit. Hopefully not too long to.wait 🤞🤞

Let me see what I can do this week, weather permitting!

With the greenworks battery around 1hr 30 mins. If you get an Allett Mowers with the ego system they have a rapid charge function, around 40mins

My local cricket pitch is 500m2. I'll have a go tomorrow and let you know... Feel like my chances are good tho 😜 Using the scarifier is a different story unless you do one track per week in prep

This is a homeowner model isn't it? It would not be used on a cricket square - Allett have commercial mowers for that

Quite right they do have a professional series, starting with the Stirling. However my local club is a small one, with a tiny budget, and this mower can comfortably go down to 15mm with the 6 blade cylinder. The warranties will differ tho from sports use to home use, we will have the Stirling too to test, so let's see how that fares!

We got the square cut twice on 1 full charge, that's pretty good going, like I say a small square of about 500m2 and because it's cut regularly, the mower was working very gently!

@@JohnBarber1958 yes we do John! This mower is not designed for cricket or any sporting setting

I love it! Every time I'm like "whoa, look how much there is" 😂

@@MowdLtd better than popping zits! And so beneficial to the garden!

I try to heavy scarify each spring just after moss and weed treatment, and use a tines rake in my Atco Balmoral every month for a light groom, the grass loves it

perfectly timed question - i just bought a new shed and im going to wall mount this one - ill do a short video on it (if i can work it out!!)

Amazing thank you!

The shed has just gone up so I'll be trying to mount this scarifier on the wall bracket this week!

@@MowdLtd I gave it another go last week and I'm still baffled as to how that thing is supposed to be wall mounted by a little plastic bracket!

Hey! Do you know what - I haven't used Tenacity yet - I do mean to get round to it. I'll take your recommendation on that one! We are developing a granular pre emergency weed killer, watch this space!

Ha, thanks very much! We do have a nice climate for it to be fair - although I see some of those Kentucky blue grass lawns in the USA - id like to experience that!

Hi Dave, it's absolutely could, being a 7-7-7 mix it has alot of Phosphorus for root development. The pre seed fert we used here was 6-9-6, so a little less N and more Phosphorus

Spot on! You know - I was shooting a video at the cricket club today repairing the football goal mouths and used a light hand roller, I told somebody about the days of heavy hand rolling ! (Before my time mind!) Good knowledge 😉

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I find it works perfectly well and has the added bonus of being really cheap and accessible! Thanks for the advice! I usually do it that way and have the cores come out - obviously not concentrating this time 🤣

Hi Josh, great question, and it depends on your lawn. I would follow these steps to find the right height: • start on -3 and run it for 3/4 metres. • take a look to see if you are removing enough thatch (can you see the soil) • if not lower it further and repeat • if you are going for a good scarify as part of a lawn renovation, you should be able to see lines in the soil. One thing to be weary of electric scarifiers is the tenancy for the motor to bog down if it's working too hard, but you will hear that! If you scarify too lightly, it's really not a problem. Just assess the ground (if it's still spongy, go again but lower!) Hope this helps, I'll do another video on this in a few weeks when I will be doing some lawn renovations!

@@MowdLtdThankyou for the reply! I think it would make a great video actually going through how to do it. - I can make a mess of my lawn with the aerator alone, although it's common sense to you, I have no idea what I'm aiming for, and I know people I've spoken to are often confused as well. "Do you need to scarify or aerate. How deep do you go. What should it look like." Are the sort of Qs I'd love to see answered!

Sounds like a plan Josh, give me a few weeks and I'll get on it! 👍👍

@@MowdLtdor get a leveling rake Or a compost spreader. 😂

It is definitely at the lower end of the budget but does a job comparable to its cost. I much prefer a hollow tine machine - but some of our customers just need other options! What have you got? Do you have another version of a manual aerator? It does remove decent cores if you get the ground in the right conditions, the cores are testament to that

@@MowdLtd nope there is no other manual way. I use a machine. You can rent or have a local guy come do it. I’m glad you touched up on this. You could get a single core which I think they call a sampler. I think that would work better for cores. These would work if they made them out of stainless steel and had a sharp edge on them. Most of the time these foot ones are not a big enough diameter in the holes or sharp. Most times it doesn’t work is all. Compacted ground is never brought up at all. Also a good test of your soil so you could add the proper amounts of amendments to your yard. Grass will be growing so much you’ll want to take it out. lol

Machines are the best way for sure (more satisfying too - boys and their toys!). I usually rent mine - in fact tis year a few of us on the same street are splitting the cost of it, great way to do it, and the hire company are delivering it too! This is just an option for those who don't have the time/inclination/budget for the hollow tine aerator - I also think there's a place for solid tine aeration too - but that will be another video! But i will admit, this tool was ok in my opinion, it produced lots of cores, albeit not as wide as a machine!

Thanks very much! Little bit of hard work, but the results are great!

Awesome glad you enjoyed it!

That would be a huge block of cheese, and id be happy with that!

Oh this is brilliant! thanks for the Sub, we really appreciate it!

Absolutely, you can use a rake, and you can get electric scarifiers too which are great. Do you scarify?

@@MowdLtd not me personally my gardener

Awesome - I think its may favourite lawn care job (after mowing of course!) I'm always shocked how much thatch comes out!