Comment on Weekly Random Thread #38 19-09-2023

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • cleverusername@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My lawn just isn’t suitable, steep and rough, training up daughter has been enjoyable for both of us.

        My mate with a Husqvarna robot mower bought my old petrol mower because there are still areas his bot can’t do.

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