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ATT LAUNCH 26" INFINI SYSTEM Complete system for professional turf maintenance
Advanced Turf Technology (ATT) impressed members of the UK turf press this week, with a demonstration of their latest 26" Inifi-System for professional turf maintainance at the Dore & Totley Golf Club, Sheffield.
By no means just a new mower, the cassette system offers 11 different turfcare tools, with a swappable dual power source (either battery or engine), giving turf professionals scope to give total care to their grass with a single machine.
Following on from the TM System for Triplex mowers and the 22" version of the Inifi System, the new 26" model is just as easy to convert between mowing, scarifying, aerating, de-thatching and top dressing, with the quick-changing cassettes.
Tim Merrell managing director of The Grass Group, who is currently travelling all over the world with his demonstration trailer, says that it's the triple whammy of seeing the machine Ultra-Groom, mow and then vibrate which is really selling the machine fast though.
The UltraGroomer attachment features over 80 1.3mm tungsten carbide tipped blades spaced at 5mm apart, which Tim said can concern a greenkeeper when they first set eyes upon them. Something along the lines, of 'you're not running that over my green'! But then once they've seen the effect it instantly has, of how it's so gentle to the grass just removing seed heads and other unwanted plants, but leaving the grass looking perfect and uniformly stood up, they are instantly impressed. Tim described this process as like combing the grass.
Mowing across this Ultragroomed grass with the cutting cassette with 7,11 & 14 blade options available, gives a cutting height range of 1.6mm to 25mm. The cleverly deisgned floating head mechanism has a 'dynamic return' feature that is constantly trying to spread the weight of the machine evenly, meaning it's at home on steep slopes and flat greens. And with the battery power source being used, the sound the machine makes is amazingly quiet.
Finally leveling this groomed and cut grass with the Vibe cassette, Tim described as like polishing the surface. The only integrated vibratory cassette in the world, it has an operating frequency of 85Hz transfered through two 60mm diameter rollers. The creation of a fast, true putting surface was instantly visable. This three-pronged turf care proceedure had removed any bobble from the golf ball's run straight away.
ATT's managing director John Coleman, described the Infini System as being "designed to be modern, but simple to use. It's like the Swiss army knife of turfcare."
