Had a Husky for two years, bloody amazing bit of kit. Everything is run from an app (and I mean everything, timings, cutting height, area to work in etc etc) and with ours its completely geofenced so if some filthy pikey decides to take it from our garden it turns into a tracker. Its like everything you get what you pay for.
Pity it couldn't turn into a localised dooms day device for when they take it back to their nest......boom.... rubbish and bits of new white range rover/transit/spinter/road crew, caravans, diddies .....everywhere .. what a beautiful collage ....... I'm ok now.
I’ve got the Husqvarna ( Electrolux? ) one, had it since 2004 on our back garden, it’s been brilliant tbh. You have to install a perimeter wire in your lawn about 4” from the edge so it knows not to run off the edge, they don’t collect grass, they just take a light cut and drop it back on the lawn to mulch. Drop it on the lawn every other day and walk away from it, do something else for a couple of hours and when you come back to it, the lawns done. Cuts in a totally random pattern ( think pinball machine) so don’t expect stripes on your lawn. It’s pin protected and covered with stickers saying so, therefore if it’s nicked it won’t work anywhere else . Uses 3 tiny little blades that swing out with centrifugal force and gets through a set in a summer, not expensive to buy. I would deffo have another one, hth. Poucher
When the battery gets low, it stops cutting and makes its way back to the charging station, it docks automatically and sits there for about 20-25 minutes and when it’s fully charged it backs out and continues cutting, does all this automatically as and when required, you don’t have to do anything. We quite often drop it on the lawn in the morning and go out for the day, get back, the lawns cut, it might have charged itself 2 or 3 times during that period, then I just switch him off and put him away..job done.
If only I’d heard of such wizardry before Christmas! I don’t mind cutting the lawn as such but our new home has a much bigger garden, Going to have a good look at one of these.
The only thing you could have trouble with is the shape of your lawn, it likes uniform round shapes, doesn’t like tight corners can get stuck in them and after a while struggling it’ll switch itself off. Also don’t hide the docking station around a corner, it likes line of sight to find it easily. I use both, robot mower on the back garden and a petrol rotary on the front lawn. First cut of the year I use the petrol mower on the back garden just to get the grass down to a shorter length as the robot doesn’t have that kind of grunt, think of the robot just maintaining a lawn that’s already in decent nick.
Another thing to consider is how wet your lawn gets, we’ve got a bit that seems to collect a load of water which has led to the mower getting stuck, it’s quite heavy and has really aggressive tread pattern on the drive wheels which just dig themselves in. Overall though its brilliant. We were told that it would reduce the amount of moss on the lawn which I was sceptical about but after a year there was hardly any moss in the lawn.
Quick bit of advice. Never ask her when dinner is going to be ready when she's cutting the lawn. When I say never I mean never again.
Easy solution: Buy her a self-propelled lawnmower for Christmas to make cutting the lawn easier, and also give her a pressure cooker so she can put dinner on & let it cook while she’s mowing the lawn. You know she’ll show her appreciation!
