That’s why I bought an automower. Always found the idea cool, but couldn’t justify the price. But then a couple of summers back I was mowing for like the fourth weekend straight and yet by Thursday of the next week it was already seed head city… So in a bit of a rage I bought a Worx Landroid and spent a day putting it in.
It worked really well, but just wasn’t big enough for our yard so could only do a little under half of it with any sort of reliability. The concept proved it worked though, so I bit the bullet and got the Husqvarna at around 3x the price.
Worth every cent! Now I don’t need to mow at all through most of the year, and only need to give it a hand maybe once or twice over summer.
Having kids to mow the lawn is some commitment, I’d prefer to just buy the automower to be honest.
There’s LIDAR / SLAM units being made now, so they’ll be more capable for odd ball shaped yards where a boundary wire and random bouncing around wasn’t good enough.
cleverusername@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I did, stupid lawn, basically needs mowing already… Stupid spring…
trk@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That’s why I bought an automower. Always found the idea cool, but couldn’t justify the price. But then a couple of summers back I was mowing for like the fourth weekend straight and yet by Thursday of the next week it was already seed head city… So in a bit of a rage I bought a Worx Landroid and spent a day putting it in.
It worked really well, but just wasn’t big enough for our yard so could only do a little under half of it with any sort of reliability. The concept proved it worked though, so I bit the bullet and got the Husqvarna at around 3x the price.
Worth every cent! Now I don’t need to mow at all through most of the year, and only need to give it a hand maybe once or twice over summer.
cleverusername@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I did actually look into that, a mate has one, but it’s just not suitable for my block.
I recently bought a big battery self propelled mower and have started training up my 11yr old daughter.
trk@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Having kids to mow the lawn is some commitment, I’d prefer to just buy the automower to be honest.
There’s LIDAR / SLAM units being made now, so they’ll be more capable for odd ball shaped yards where a boundary wire and random bouncing around wasn’t good enough.