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Anyone have a robot lawnmower?

11 replies

stancat · 24/10/2020 13:56

With all this chat about robo vacuums it got me thinking maybe I need a robot grass cutter too.

Anyone have any experience with such beasts?

Looking at something like this:

www.johnlewis.com/bosch-indego-350-connect-robotic-lawnmower/p3379071

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Selmaselma · 25/10/2020 12:27

We have one and love it! We have a Gardena one since four years and it works really well. You need to put a cable into the lawn around the area it should work in, which will take a a few hours based on the size of your lawn, but is a good time investment of your time given you do no longer need to mow afterwards. You need to bring it into the shed for winter, and the docking station needs electrical power.

stancat · 25/10/2020 14:01

Good to know, thanks @Selmaselma.

I'm keeping my eyes peeled for Black Friday deals. DH refuses to cut the grass and I honestly can't be bothered either so seems like a worthwhile investment 😬

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JamMakingWannaBe · 26/10/2020 09:37

Had my Flymo 1200R for three years and I love it. I just program it to go out for an hour twice a week and off it goes. If both died, I'd replace my robomow before my robovac. You still need to do the edges in places but it's great.

MissScarletInTheSnug · 26/10/2020 09:42

I'm following as I keep thinking that this would be a great idea, but due to the strange layout of my house I have two tiny patches of lawn on a slope at the back of my house and then a large lawn at the front. I wouldn't want to leave an expensive piece of equipment out at the front of the house and having to carry the thing round between front and back seems to defeat the object of having a robot mower, although not much different to me carrying the roomba upstairs I guess.

gigglingHyena · 27/10/2020 16:32

We have a Bosch, not sure which, it doesn't connect to our phones.

It's great to be able to just push a button and set it off, mowing was always a job that kept getting put off till the grass was too long, then it took ages.

We have an odd shaped lawn, so ther are a couple of tight corners it can only get at from certain angles. It's not a huge problem, as it changes the angle each time you run it so will come back to those bits another time. It's more of a pain at the begining or end of the year when we're not running it that often.

Where your gass meets paving the mower can have one wheel up on the slabs and now right to the edge, however this only works if the two are level. We have clay soil which has settled a bit too low in one corner, so the mower can't manage that bit. It moves off to find the guide wire again a bit further along.

Where the grass I'd close to a walk or edge of a flower bed you can't get the mower right up to the edge, so you'll still need sheers or a strimmer for those bits.

In the last few months ours has developed a bit of an issue, sometimes it doesn't recognise when it's fully charged, it will go back to base to recharge but then never come back out for the second half. Turn of and on again has always fixed it, but it's a bit irritating, it wasn't cheep. DH uploaded new firmware a couple of weeks back, so hope that's sorted it.

We got a cheep £20 push mower to do the tiny path at the front if the house, as we weren't too keen on leaving it out there unattended.

cupofdecaf · 27/10/2020 16:41

Yep love it. The moss has nearly all gone as well.

LittlePearl · 27/10/2020 16:53

We absolutely love ours.

We have a large lawn that needs mowing twice a week to look good in the growing season so having the robot has transformed our lives. It goes out at night and we wake every day to a lovely looking lawn.

It wasn't cheap but it's been worth every penny.

LizB62A · 27/10/2020 17:02

Would anyone recommend any particular makes/models?

Also, how portable are they?
I'm thinking of getting one and sharing it with my sister who lives nearby - one week at mine then one week at hers Grin

stancat · 27/10/2020 20:31

Thanks everyone.

I am well and truly convinced. Just need to cough up the money now 😃

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Fluffycloudland77 · 28/10/2020 07:28

Do they have safety features to avoid hedgehogs now?. There’s been a rise in hedgehogs losing legs to them but maybe newer ones are safer?.

lulubooboo · 28/10/2020 08:37

Would love one of these!
How does it cope with branches and acorns etc?

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