Amazone's Profihopper is designed to cut both long and short grass and collect the cuttings efficiently both in the dry and wet.
The out-front horizontal SmartCut flail rotor has 36 pairs of free-swinging blades which can be changed from a short lift blade which is ideal for rougher light scrub such as heather or brambles or long, rough grass.
These H60 wing blades can also have a scarifying blade put with them as a combination which can then be used not only for scarifying but also leaf and litter collection.
The shorter wing blades can be switched to a long wing for cutting shorter still and the longer H77 blade gives a higher tip speed and a finer cut. There is also a specialist H88 blade for fine lawn turf finish.
Cuttings are propelled off the blades into a cross auger that brings the grass into a centre auger from where it is then taken up into the hopper.
There are three models: zDrive with lever steer is a genuine zero-turn machine for use in areas where tight manoeuvring is necessary; the iDrive which is two-wheel drive with a steering wheel; and the 4Wdi with a steering wheel are both zero-turn with a turning circle of 30cm.
Cutting width is 1.2 metres only on all models and the hopper lifts to 2.1m to tip into a trailer or pick-up.
