The first model available with the rear roller kit is the range of 41cm cutting width Duocut machines which are now able to cut, collect, stripe and by fitting the mulching insert, mulch. Rear roller kits to fit the 46cm cutting width models, which are Etesia’s most popular models, will be available soon.

No tools are required to fit the roller kits to an Etesia machine - just hang the free floating roller on two locating pins behind the grass box. Weighing 9kgs, the roller has been designed so that it will operate free-floating at any height the machine is mowing at - ensuring perfect striping no matter the weather or height of cut required.

“We’ve been asked if we could add a rear roller to our pedestrian mowers for as long as I can remember and I am thrilled that we now can,” said Les Malin, operations director at Etesia UK. “Our products are known to be robust and innovative but we have seen a number of our customers adding their own roller kits, which wasn’t ideal. This new rear roller kit will open our machines up to a whole new market where presentation of pitches or lawns is vitally important.”