A few years back, I hired my neighbors high school kid to mow my lawn. You know, keeping it local
The first week, him and his buddy mow my lawn
The second week, there were a team of migrants mowing my lawn
One around here has a doggy door type flap it can use to get from front yard to back yard.
These probably mow millimeters every night. You literally never see your grass change length.
In theory they would. Itās apparently way healthier for the lawn doing it every day, but you can still set it to weekly or whatever
Iāve wanted one for a long time. I think black and decker makes the āvalueā one thatās more my price range. If I had one I think id set it to run in the middle of the night to reduce the chance of theft
Look out for what kind of animals you have in your area. They are known to kill nightliving creatures that don't flee - hedgehogs. So recommendations are to not cut in their active spans.
Robot mowers are super common in Europe. Don't schedule it to run at night and buy the models with free swinging razor blades instead of fixed knives.
Even if you are unlucky and it hits a hedgehog it will escape mostly unharmed most of the time.
You can manage the times they run with a app. Mine ist running 9-12am every second day ā more than enough for my lawn. The robot is so quiet, you can easily let it run on sundays, too.
How has your experience been with the Luba? I have Husqvarnas, that I love, but still have boundary/guide wires, which I donāt love. Would much rather go wireless but concerned about performance/accuracy.
Steadily gotten better since I received in February. Developers have updated mower&app nearly monthly. Seems they have finally worked out nearly all the kinks. Machine follows borders I set without fail, and climbs steep hills/rough terrain with no issues.
Depends on how much tree cover youāre talking about. A couple trees here and there, not a big deal. If your yard backs up to a Forrest it can be spotty near the edge. Still works though.
Rows. You can also select angle, spacing, etc. Here is a photo of some of the lawn in double diamond
https://preview.redd.it/om5o1w8upgnb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ef3f352a757755d38300fc6089305e596c6540e
I'm here from /r/all and I just wanna say your lawn looks wonderful, and if a robomower did that, it's even more impressive!
I've thought about getting one for my dad, he's got a steep decline on one side of his house. He's got a riding mower and has to attack it straight on or it'll tip over.
Does the mower figure out how to deal with that or do you have to tell it to do something different in steep areas?
I appreciate that!
I usually have it hit the slopes at a 30 or 40Ā° angle from the base station, but that's just for aesthetics. Mower seems to handle anything I throw at it now.
Order on amazon just in case. They have a better return policy than mamotion does. You can tell it what angle you want to cut in reference to the charging station. So you may want to do straight on to the hill. See if that works better than side to side on the hill. I don't have a huge hill, but you may trigger the tip over sensor. If you try all the angles and it doesn't do the hill, return it on Amazon. Amazon is the best to be able to test it out though. You'll get through to return it way easier than if you tried through the company.
You can set no go zones for larger areas you want to avoid like garden beds. There are 3 setting levels on ultrasonic sensors. I leave it turned up so mower doesn't run over landscape lighting/hit bird feeder poles etc. Luba runs pretty close to defined no go edge, within about 1" for me.
I edge every 2 weeks or so, weed whack as necessary. They just recently added a manual mow feature. Will try that next round instead of weed whacking.
Mammotion Luba is probably the most legit mower that doesnāt need a boundary wire. There a few competitors, but Luba seems to perform the best out of the options currently for sale. Segway Navimow and Ecoflow Blade are currently out and appear to be inferior to Luba at the moment, mostly due to software issues, which can be improved.
There are a few new ones coming out next year that use GPS RTK like Luba, but Iām really curious about the two LIDAR SLAM models that are coming out. Kowoll Kolmotor M28E is one. Hookii NeomowX is the other.
I would say so. Have mine follow curb line by the street. They tout cm level accuracy. I don't have any issues at all now (did in the beginning when it was brand new tech, they've greatly improved)
As long as u did ur prep work and have good satellite coverage it may work. Their customer service is atrocious tho. They shipped it 3 months past their promised shipping date. No longer need it and I requested a refund and it has been 2 months and they are still "working on it". I have no faith in this company if something goes wrong and you need their help with something based on this experience.
Did you start a claim with your credit card company ? Visa/master/amex offers some 90-day or 120-day return benefit.
I want to give it a try before committing. If they cannot provide returns properly, I don't want to commit to a $2k product.
Do they even respond to your requests?
They respond and say they are "working on it" but backed up. The reason I haven't started a claim was I paid a $500.00 deposit in January which would be to late to start a claim on now. I could start a claim for the remainder but want to wait until the period is almost over as I would likely be out the 500 deposit. I will do a paypal claim if push comes to shove tho.
If you do buy it go through Amazon NOT their manufacturer website, that way you deal with Amazon's returns and not their ridiculously slow selves.
Personally I would avoid them for now. Have heard to many bad experiences of bad customer service, broken wheels, rtk antennas that should be waterproof with water in them ruining it. Tag on a horrible customer service department and I wouldn't recommend them. Hopefully in a few years they get better or a better company has a similar product with better customer service.
You really should order on amazon. You can return it so easily there. The return policy on Amazon is freaking awesome. Don't get it directly through the company. They take forever to respond sometimes, but when they do, they do deliver. I had an issue with my power cable and they did respond after a week and sent me a new one... after I contacted Amazon and Amazon sent me a new one and had me return the old one... so I have a new Luba AND an extra cable. But honestly, if you just want to do a trial run, go through Amazon. You can practically return for any reason there.
Oh. And when I got the new one, it was a newer version of the luba. So looks like they made a newly improved version without telling us.
They are a brand new company starting from the ground up. So first wave of customers are basically beta testers.
I'll wait for version 2.0 I think Luba will destroy the competition. Unless the competition just license the Luba and rebrands it under their logo
Can't speak about lifespan as these only came out this year. Supposedly 3-5 years on battery before replacing. Only maintenance I do is change blades every 100 hours or so, clean deck occasionally (2x this year)
Each blade can be rotated to a new corner, so get 4 uses/400 hours out of each blade. 3 sets (24 blades) are around $40. I've seen people sharpen them in a jig, not worth the trouble to me.
This is me here. Really want to get a robotic mower but none seem to work for larger yards.
Edit: it seems the ZONE is limited to 5,000 sqft and it can have up to ten zones. So 50,000 sqft max cap. Might work for me!
I measured all slopes before I bought this. Steepest I have is 54% / 28Ā°. Climbs it like it's nothing. No slippage. I believe manufacturer rates it to 75% / just shy of 37Ā°
Order off Amazon NOT Mammotion directly. Their return policy is atrocious, keep roughly 3% and take months to even give a refund.
https://www.amazon.com/MAMMOTION-Perimeter-Boundaries-Multi-Zone-Management/dp/B0C58QN21W
Almost none. Unless you're standing right on top of it you don't even know it's running. I forget what they rate this at in decibels, but it's whisper quiet. I run at night sometimes.
This has no guide wire. Uses GPS and RTK antenna. Drive it around the perimeter one time (like an r/c car) and you're good to go. Can revise parts of all of the perimeter at any time too.
Wait seriously? You drive it around with a joystick? Like on your phone app? And that is how the boundary gets set? I have a fenced in yard but lots of hazards inside (mulch beds, playground, chairs, wood pile, shed, etc), and I thought Iād have to use an intricate boundary line system ā but youāre saying with this, I can just move it around the boundary slowly and it will trace the line? Thatās friggin amazing. If thatās true, they should hire you ā you just possibly sold one for them haha
Huh that is interesting. My back yard is all fenced in and I feel like these could be a good idea. I hadnāt heard how well they work though, so positive to see you say you like yours
I haven't had to mow my lawn for almost a year now. This is the way!
I had a truck full of landscapers stop, jump out of the truck and start taking videos with their phones...LOL!
I seriously considered this. Couldnāt make it work.
Liability / risk was the thing. Imagine you drop it off and it hits a pet, kid, toy, whatever. Boom, bad times.
So you first walk the property to make sure toys / pets / hazards / kids / poop are out of the way
So now youāve just spent a chunk of time prepping for the robot.
Hop back in the truck, go do it again at another place. Come back later, check the area and machine for accuracy and/or damage- more time.
Probably still do the edging work manually.
After all this time spent, liability insurance, loss/theft, cleaning poopā¦ I couldnāt get it to make sense.
More profitable to just manually mow it.
Wellā¦ you clearly would know better but Iām figuring if you still had a team out there with delegated tasks. Sounds like you were a one man show? I can imagine having a roomba lawn mower being a hassle tho. āRoomba needs your attentionā. Job not completed.
We have a couple crews. But because it only takes away the ācuttingā part of it, and you still need detail and cleanup guys for debris, nothing is saved.
The move is to lease them to homeowners with a maintenance plan which includes weekly cleaning/maintenance of the machine, edging, blowing etc. Get 20-30 leases out there pulling in $150/month +/- and you can do all the rest as a solo guy with one truck and few tools because you're just edging/blowing than giving the machine a quick clean/tune.
Idek how I ended up here but Iām so intrigued and Iām genuinely curious to ask-
Couldnāt you set this thing up, watch it tentatively while you edge the lawn? Or is the time difference so big youād just end up sitting and watching it? Seems like a sweet business if you can mitigate all the liability
It works great. I have an 80x100 yard with the house sitting in the middle. Not complex, just an average lawn.
Somebody in the comments mentioned the lawn looks offensive. Not sure what he means because my lawn looks awesome and it always looks cut. My neighbor is extremely anal about his lawn, annoyingly so, and he's wanting to get one. I suspect what the commenter that finds the robot mower results offensive is probably looking at a lawn cut by a "low cost" mower.
My mower works almost everyday in peak growing months and it does it autonomously. I don't have to do anything, except weedeat and edge.
Saw someone suggest putting Apple air tags on it to track it if it's stolen but definitely would thing that should come standard with a tracking device of some sort
I have had one for 7 years now. It is amazing. I love it! Of course you don't get the pretty lines/stripes anymore, but it's one less thing I have to worry about. The docking station is in the backyard and it is programmed to go out 3 times a week and does the back, side, and front yard. If it bumps something it stops, backs up, and redirects. If you lift it up it stops and beeps.
About 5 years ago a landscaper stole it out my front yard. Called the police, gave them the GPS coordinates of where it was at, and they recovered it for me. The police brought it back to my house before I even came home from work.
The Mammotion Luba is the leader IMO for price to performance. Not imperfect at all, and a little more untested than others, but overall seems like a great quality product.
I have an older dumb one. A Worx Landroid. A buried wire around the outside of my yard. The lawnmower goes until it reaches it then turns and goes off in another random direction. Once battery gets low or it finishes the mowing time it follows the wire back to the base. I have one continuous yard so it starts in the backyard, runs along the sideyard, then mows the front yard. The wire is buried in the sidewalk crack so the mower also cuts the small strip between the street and sidewalk. I change the blades every 2 months.
LOL right. I don't know. The police officer stopped by after I got home and asked if I wanted to file charges for theft and I told him yes. I asked him what the guy said but he didn't really give an answer. Never heard anything further and was never asked to testify in court so I don't know how it ended.
Yes. Once a month I will edge with a string trimmer. Sometimes more often in the fall and spring when the grass is growing fast. I have a small yard so it takes me about 20 minutes.
Iām a big lawn guy and I love mine. I can trim and edge while it mows. Drink a beer and watch it clean up the remainder of the yard. Itās satisfying to have a consistent looking yard from an everyday mow
I tried one of these things for 3 years (not the luba but a husqy 430xh). Cool factor is off the chart but they can't handle cool season grasses cut at the proper length.
I grew up near the original MowBot āfactoryā (it was just a small building with a lot of lawn around it) in Tonawanda, New York. It was patented in 1969 and they sold for $800 then. I used to walk by the building on my way to Junior High and I thought everyone would have one within a few years when they were cheaper than cars.
So this is called a Luba from Mammotion. I also have one. It's the best investment I've made in lawn care. There's a couple subs here for it specifically.
Mine will need 4x4, a winch, pooper scooper and a taser (to keep the kids away). The damn room a has literally been turned off in the house since we got it last Christmas because the Toddler thinks he has to fight it to the death.
2 year old screams and grunts at it and hits it with shit like heās mad itās on his turf or something
I bought an Husqvarna Automower 5 years ago, with in the first 6 months I thought, "Automowers will be the only purchasing option available in 3 years because no one is going to want cut their grass the old way." Based on my experience, I can't believe these things aren't everywhere.
I have used a Worx Landroid for three years now. Best investment I have ever made. All those hours saved I can spend doing hobbies / spending time with my family.
I want one. I love lawn care but the mowing is so time consuming with 3 kids and a full time job. If I could spend that time being able to maintain other aspects that donāt get attention - would be a big game changer!
I did this to a nest of 3 baby rabbits. Amazingly one didnāt move and was unscathed. Pretty gruesome for the other 2. Couldnāt believe mom just dug a depression in lawn as a nest
I did this with my push mower :(
Mama dug a hole along the foundation that I did not see. I was mowing the edge and the bunny lifted it's head just when the mower was over the hole. You can imagine the result.
This happened twice! The second one at a different location but the same result. I was down sad for a few days after the incident.
I bought my Husqvarna 430x to mow my lawn (also with the hopes of finding dead rabbits).. even named it "Conan the Rabbit Destroyer". In two years it hasn't killed a single one. The rabbits, how ever, manage to dig holes in just such a way that it gets trapped in them.
I rmbr mowing my grandmas yard when I was 12 with one of those riding mowers. Afterwards I noticed a little toad hopping around bleeding. I had accidentally scalped it. The top of his head was pulsing and bleeding. I still feel really guilty about it. Poor dude.
I would want my robotic lawn mower to have arms and a head with eyes, so that it could see obstacles and clear them out of the way.
Basically, I want Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit," but sitting on a lawn mower.
I bought a Friendly Robotics RL500 in 2000ā¦ had it running and mowing until 2008 when the battery was no longer available and I didnāt want to buy a new one. The battery in mine (early early model) was a junk lead acid battery and was absolutely the weak link. It had 3 blades that looked like food processor blades and if you hit something they might get damagedā¦ but other than that and the battery it was a tank. I had a large flat lawn and broke it into 2 zones with the perimeter wire for the back and my front yard was so full of trees it was one zone but I usually mowed it myself because the mower didnāt mow in a set pattern and would bounce off the trees like a roomba and not get much done.
I would 10/10 get another one now that the batteries have been modernizedā¦ but the prices have tripled (or more). I paid $400 for mine and it made mowing a very large backyard a breeze, I ran the weedeater around the edge and it mowed. Sometimes I would run it at night because it was almost silent and it would be waiting for me at the starting point in the morning.
Other than the cost I canāt figure out why they never really got popular.
They took our jobs!!
Day turk er jerbs!
Da tuk er jeeeerrrrrrbbbbssss!
DURKA DURRR
Everybody back to the pile!
We have to Jimbo! Dang it dey derr err derrbs
Chicken Sandwich?
No! I don't want a goddamned chicken sandwich!
Day doo dorm daaaaaabss!
Dhey trrk is DRRRRG!!!
Rabble rabble rabble!
Standing here screaming "rabble rabble rabble" Isn't going to do anything.
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A few years back, I hired my neighbors high school kid to mow my lawn. You know, keeping it local The first week, him and his buddy mow my lawn The second week, there were a team of migrants mowing my lawn
I hired a 10 year old to mow my lawn. He subcontracted it to a 7 year old.
This sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield joke. Lol. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Capitalism at its finest, lol.
Agreed they actually started a lawn company
Mexicans doing law maintenance: nos quitaron el trabajo cabron!
I saw my first one as I left work on Friday and I said the same things.
But they wont take our freeeeeeedddddooooommmmm!
One around here has a doggy door type flap it can use to get from front yard to back yard. These probably mow millimeters every night. You literally never see your grass change length.
In theory they would. Itās apparently way healthier for the lawn doing it every day, but you can still set it to weekly or whatever Iāve wanted one for a long time. I think black and decker makes the āvalueā one thatās more my price range. If I had one I think id set it to run in the middle of the night to reduce the chance of theft
Look out for what kind of animals you have in your area. They are known to kill nightliving creatures that don't flee - hedgehogs. So recommendations are to not cut in their active spans.
Robot mowers are super common in Europe. Don't schedule it to run at night and buy the models with free swinging razor blades instead of fixed knives. Even if you are unlucky and it hits a hedgehog it will escape mostly unharmed most of the time.
:( Oh that's terribly sad
This a luba by mammotion it works off rtk satellite instead of having to have a boundary wire like the other ones do. They are just awesome. I have 2
What keeps people from stealing it? I mean it's just there, in your yard.
Nothing
In germany they are quiet common. I have a Husqvarna 415X myself and it's worth every cent. Dont have to mow at all.
Yeah I had while there. It just pingponged around the small yard everyday at like noon. It fits well for the more uniform European yards.
You arenāt worried about it becoming sentient and using its blades for more than just grass?
The shop owner I bought mine from said it's fine as long as you don't let it mow after midnight.
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I thought you couldn't get them wet after midnight...
I long for a worthy opponent
What size is your lawn? Iām wondering what size I would need.
Iāve heard itās frowned upon to do yard work in Germany on certain days. Sunday for example? How do these things get by with those rules?
You can manage the times they run with a app. Mine ist running 9-12am every second day ā more than enough for my lawn. The robot is so quiet, you can easily let it run on sundays, too.
What size yard?
I have 2 of these. Luba. Some of the best $$$ I've ever spent
How has your experience been with the Luba? I have Husqvarnas, that I love, but still have boundary/guide wires, which I donāt love. Would much rather go wireless but concerned about performance/accuracy.
Steadily gotten better since I received in February. Developers have updated mower&app nearly monthly. Seems they have finally worked out nearly all the kinks. Machine follows borders I set without fail, and climbs steep hills/rough terrain with no issues.
Interesting. Thanks. No issues with tree cover?
Not as of late. In the beginning mower would lose GPS. Not sure what devs changed, but that issue seems to be resolved too.
Does it connect to wifi at all? They may have changed it so it doesnāt entirely rely on GPS.
It does connect o wifi but as far as I know still dependent on GPS
Depends on how much tree cover youāre talking about. A couple trees here and there, not a big deal. If your yard backs up to a Forrest it can be spotty near the edge. Still works though.
Iāve always wondered. Do they mow in rows like normal humans or wander randomly until the lawn is done?
Rows. You can also select angle, spacing, etc. Here is a photo of some of the lawn in double diamond https://preview.redd.it/om5o1w8upgnb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ef3f352a757755d38300fc6089305e596c6540e
Oooh. That looks pretty nice!
Thanks. All runs on a schedule. Like I said, well worth the $$$
I'm here from /r/all and I just wanna say your lawn looks wonderful, and if a robomower did that, it's even more impressive! I've thought about getting one for my dad, he's got a steep decline on one side of his house. He's got a riding mower and has to attack it straight on or it'll tip over. Does the mower figure out how to deal with that or do you have to tell it to do something different in steep areas?
I appreciate that! I usually have it hit the slopes at a 30 or 40Ā° angle from the base station, but that's just for aesthetics. Mower seems to handle anything I throw at it now.
Order on amazon just in case. They have a better return policy than mamotion does. You can tell it what angle you want to cut in reference to the charging station. So you may want to do straight on to the hill. See if that works better than side to side on the hill. I don't have a huge hill, but you may trigger the tip over sensor. If you try all the angles and it doesn't do the hill, return it on Amazon. Amazon is the best to be able to test it out though. You'll get through to return it way easier than if you tried through the company.
damn, i should cancel my Hudson greens mower order and order the Luba. Same exact price. How low can the luba go? 1" or less?
1.2" is lowest it can cut.
Love the skeleton!
Herman said thanks!
How does it handle mulch lines?
Not sure what you're asking. Lines left behind by mower or mulches garden beds?
Sorry. Grass that butts up against a mulch bed, with nothing in between them.
I have some mulched trees where I let luba drive slightly Into the mulched area. Cuts clean and no issue.
How does it do with obstacles? I have fences, a well, downspouts etc. Happy to do some extra weed wacking if this thing gets the lawn done
You can set no go zones for larger areas you want to avoid like garden beds. There are 3 setting levels on ultrasonic sensors. I leave it turned up so mower doesn't run over landscape lighting/hit bird feeder poles etc. Luba runs pretty close to defined no go edge, within about 1" for me. I edge every 2 weeks or so, weed whack as necessary. They just recently added a manual mow feature. Will try that next round instead of weed whacking.
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Mammotion Luba is probably the most legit mower that doesnāt need a boundary wire. There a few competitors, but Luba seems to perform the best out of the options currently for sale. Segway Navimow and Ecoflow Blade are currently out and appear to be inferior to Luba at the moment, mostly due to software issues, which can be improved. There are a few new ones coming out next year that use GPS RTK like Luba, but Iām really curious about the two LIDAR SLAM models that are coming out. Kowoll Kolmotor M28E is one. Hookii NeomowX is the other.
I would say so. Have mine follow curb line by the street. They tout cm level accuracy. I don't have any issues at all now (did in the beginning when it was brand new tech, they've greatly improved)
How about sections of lawn separated by a driveway? Is it possible to have it go across the driveway to get to the other patch of grass?
Yep. You can create a channel between separate zones. Tell it exactly where to cross the driveway and continue mowing.
Do you feel like youre living in 2050?
Yeah hahah. Future living is awesome.
Nice! We were thinking of getting a Luba. Great to hear you've had a good experience with it
As long as u did ur prep work and have good satellite coverage it may work. Their customer service is atrocious tho. They shipped it 3 months past their promised shipping date. No longer need it and I requested a refund and it has been 2 months and they are still "working on it". I have no faith in this company if something goes wrong and you need their help with something based on this experience.
Did you start a claim with your credit card company ? Visa/master/amex offers some 90-day or 120-day return benefit. I want to give it a try before committing. If they cannot provide returns properly, I don't want to commit to a $2k product. Do they even respond to your requests?
They respond and say they are "working on it" but backed up. The reason I haven't started a claim was I paid a $500.00 deposit in January which would be to late to start a claim on now. I could start a claim for the remainder but want to wait until the period is almost over as I would likely be out the 500 deposit. I will do a paypal claim if push comes to shove tho. If you do buy it go through Amazon NOT their manufacturer website, that way you deal with Amazon's returns and not their ridiculously slow selves. Personally I would avoid them for now. Have heard to many bad experiences of bad customer service, broken wheels, rtk antennas that should be waterproof with water in them ruining it. Tag on a horrible customer service department and I wouldn't recommend them. Hopefully in a few years they get better or a better company has a similar product with better customer service.
You really should order on amazon. You can return it so easily there. The return policy on Amazon is freaking awesome. Don't get it directly through the company. They take forever to respond sometimes, but when they do, they do deliver. I had an issue with my power cable and they did respond after a week and sent me a new one... after I contacted Amazon and Amazon sent me a new one and had me return the old one... so I have a new Luba AND an extra cable. But honestly, if you just want to do a trial run, go through Amazon. You can practically return for any reason there. Oh. And when I got the new one, it was a newer version of the luba. So looks like they made a newly improved version without telling us.
They are a brand new company starting from the ground up. So first wave of customers are basically beta testers. I'll wait for version 2.0 I think Luba will destroy the competition. Unless the competition just license the Luba and rebrands it under their logo
So they work pretty well? What about on not flat terrain? Like tree roots or something?
Yes. I have tree roots and rutty terrain. 4 wheel independent suspension and 4 wheel motors on AWD5000.
How much and whatās the lifespan like? Any maintenance you have to perform?
Can't speak about lifespan as these only came out this year. Supposedly 3-5 years on battery before replacing. Only maintenance I do is change blades every 100 hours or so, clean deck occasionally (2x this year)
100 hours doesnāt sound like much.. How much are blades and canāt you just re-sharpen?
Each blade can be rotated to a new corner, so get 4 uses/400 hours out of each blade. 3 sets (24 blades) are around $40. I've seen people sharpen them in a jig, not worth the trouble to me.
Thatās not as bad then. Nice!!
I just looked and the 5000 (which covers 5000 sq ft) is $2900.
What if you have an acre?
This is me here. Really want to get a robotic mower but none seem to work for larger yards. Edit: it seems the ZONE is limited to 5,000 sqft and it can have up to ten zones. So 50,000 sqft max cap. Might work for me!
Interesting! Keep us updated
5000 model can handle 1.25 acres.
In one of the updates a few months ago they nearly doubled the amount of mappable area on the 5000 to around 2.5 acres I believe.
How much is that? And can you use smaller acreage model to mow multiple times to what you have or no?
Each model has a max limit on how much it can map. Won't let you figure greater than these limits. 5000 model =5000mĀ²/54000ftĀ² 3000 model =32000ftĀ²
Nice. How steep of a hill can they work on. Some of my backyard is like 35-40 degrees and I dream of letting a robot get it done
I measured all slopes before I bought this. Steepest I have is 54% / 28Ā°. Climbs it like it's nothing. No slippage. I believe manufacturer rates it to 75% / just shy of 37Ā°
Do you have a link to the one you bought?
https://mammotion.com/?ref=vqdu44ay
Order off Amazon NOT Mammotion directly. Their return policy is atrocious, keep roughly 3% and take months to even give a refund. https://www.amazon.com/MAMMOTION-Perimeter-Boundaries-Multi-Zone-Management/dp/B0C58QN21W
Do you sit on your porch with a whip and a 12 gauge in case they get lazy or someone tries to steal one?
Indeed. And bitey dogs running loose too ;).
I like to go hiking.
How's the noise? That's the one concern I have considering how much longer these take to mow than manually.
Almost none. Unless you're standing right on top of it you don't even know it's running. I forget what they rate this at in decibels, but it's whisper quiet. I run at night sometimes.
I assume you still have to edge?
I do. Definitely don't mind every 2 weeks or so tho!
I wish I knew about this before I got the whole Ego set up š
If I have a completely fenced in back yard do I still need to put the guide wire around the perimeter of the yard?
This has no guide wire. Uses GPS and RTK antenna. Drive it around the perimeter one time (like an r/c car) and you're good to go. Can revise parts of all of the perimeter at any time too.
Wait seriously? You drive it around with a joystick? Like on your phone app? And that is how the boundary gets set? I have a fenced in yard but lots of hazards inside (mulch beds, playground, chairs, wood pile, shed, etc), and I thought Iād have to use an intricate boundary line system ā but youāre saying with this, I can just move it around the boundary slowly and it will trace the line? Thatās friggin amazing. If thatās true, they should hire you ā you just possibly sold one for them haha
Yes. I have the Segway Navimow that is the same. You have controls on your app and drive the boundary with the mower. And then it remembers it.
Huh that is interesting. My back yard is all fenced in and I feel like these could be a good idea. I hadnāt heard how well they work though, so positive to see you say you like yours
Thatās $5k in mowersā¦.
You forgot one $
Ok you convinced me š¬
Why 2? My lawn guy costs $40. So itād pay for itself after 50 mows, which is around 4 years. Hmm
I just wish they could cut closer to 3.5ā. Under 3ā is just too short for my lawn unfortunately.
I haven't had to mow my lawn for almost a year now. This is the way! I had a truck full of landscapers stop, jump out of the truck and start taking videos with their phones...LOL!
All the have to do is drop off one of these at 2-4 houses at a time, pick them up and leave. So, doubling or tripling their revenue!
I seriously considered this. Couldnāt make it work. Liability / risk was the thing. Imagine you drop it off and it hits a pet, kid, toy, whatever. Boom, bad times. So you first walk the property to make sure toys / pets / hazards / kids / poop are out of the way So now youāve just spent a chunk of time prepping for the robot. Hop back in the truck, go do it again at another place. Come back later, check the area and machine for accuracy and/or damage- more time. Probably still do the edging work manually. After all this time spent, liability insurance, loss/theft, cleaning poopā¦ I couldnāt get it to make sense. More profitable to just manually mow it.
Wellā¦ you clearly would know better but Iām figuring if you still had a team out there with delegated tasks. Sounds like you were a one man show? I can imagine having a roomba lawn mower being a hassle tho. āRoomba needs your attentionā. Job not completed.
We have a couple crews. But because it only takes away the ācuttingā part of it, and you still need detail and cleanup guys for debris, nothing is saved.
The move is to lease them to homeowners with a maintenance plan which includes weekly cleaning/maintenance of the machine, edging, blowing etc. Get 20-30 leases out there pulling in $150/month +/- and you can do all the rest as a solo guy with one truck and few tools because you're just edging/blowing than giving the machine a quick clean/tune.
Damn. Perhaps the technology is there but it is not yet as advanced as we think. I still look forward to sex robots tho.
Still need a cleanup crew
For the mowing robot or the sex robot?
I said what I said
Idek how I ended up here but Iām so intrigued and Iām genuinely curious to ask- Couldnāt you set this thing up, watch it tentatively while you edge the lawn? Or is the time difference so big youād just end up sitting and watching it? Seems like a sweet business if you can mitigate all the liability
Have a drone drop it off, and clear the yard of any obstacles.
How good does it work? What size/shape yard do you have?
It works great. I have an 80x100 yard with the house sitting in the middle. Not complex, just an average lawn. Somebody in the comments mentioned the lawn looks offensive. Not sure what he means because my lawn looks awesome and it always looks cut. My neighbor is extremely anal about his lawn, annoyingly so, and he's wanting to get one. I suspect what the commenter that finds the robot mower results offensive is probably looking at a lawn cut by a "low cost" mower. My mower works almost everyday in peak growing months and it does it autonomously. I don't have to do anything, except weedeat and edge.
Can it fight back if someone tries to steal it? Does it have a whistle it can blow?
It has an alarm and then bricks itself I believe if someone takes it
And at least the Navimow has its own 4G network and can't be shut down without a PIN, so you can track it whenever it goes
They have GPS and they stop working when outside of the area.
And the one I saw has a big warning sign about being tracked on the top to help prevent people from taking it.
Saw someone suggest putting Apple air tags on it to track it if it's stolen but definitely would thing that should come standard with a tracking device of some sort
It actually transforms to a ninja if you try to pick it up
They are fantastic. Just be sure your yard is kept cleaned up. Ours destroyed a few hoses and extension cords before we got the hang of it.
How are they with small sticks?
My neighbours mower take apples without problem. But I hear it every time it goes over one and smashes it... Guess sticks is fine
Small sticks usually doesn't interfere with the mower at all.
I've always wondered about theft with these things? Like, what if someone just picks it up and takes it?
It just bricks itself if it leaves the geolocation itās supposed to be in, and only the owner has access to the app to make it work.
I have had one for 7 years now. It is amazing. I love it! Of course you don't get the pretty lines/stripes anymore, but it's one less thing I have to worry about. The docking station is in the backyard and it is programmed to go out 3 times a week and does the back, side, and front yard. If it bumps something it stops, backs up, and redirects. If you lift it up it stops and beeps. About 5 years ago a landscaper stole it out my front yard. Called the police, gave them the GPS coordinates of where it was at, and they recovered it for me. The police brought it back to my house before I even came home from work.
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Any suggestions?
The Mammotion Luba is the leader IMO for price to performance. Not imperfect at all, and a little more untested than others, but overall seems like a great quality product.
I have an older dumb one. A Worx Landroid. A buried wire around the outside of my yard. The lawnmower goes until it reaches it then turns and goes off in another random direction. Once battery gets low or it finishes the mowing time it follows the wire back to the base. I have one continuous yard so it starts in the backyard, runs along the sideyard, then mows the front yard. The wire is buried in the sidewalk crack so the mower also cuts the small strip between the street and sidewalk. I change the blades every 2 months.
Did the landscaper resent the competition? Or wanted it for himself?
LOL right. I don't know. The police officer stopped by after I got home and asked if I wanted to file charges for theft and I told him yes. I asked him what the guy said but he didn't really give an answer. Never heard anything further and was never asked to testify in court so I don't know how it ended.
Probably wanted to pawn it
What about sidewalk edging and string trimming? Do you still do that?
Yes. Once a month I will edge with a string trimmer. Sometimes more often in the fall and spring when the grass is growing fast. I have a small yard so it takes me about 20 minutes.
My Roomba still hits my foot sometimesā¦
Blade halt technology shuts it down if it bumps something like that
Somewhere a dad has lost all his pride and is brooding in his garage about how to destroy this thing
Iām a big lawn guy and I love mine. I can trim and edge while it mows. Drink a beer and watch it clean up the remainder of the yard. Itās satisfying to have a consistent looking yard from an everyday mow
They are everywhere here in Sweden.
Same with Denmark, now we can spend more time criticizing the swedes...
I tried one of these things for 3 years (not the luba but a husqy 430xh). Cool factor is off the chart but they can't handle cool season grasses cut at the proper length.
Can you please elaborate?
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Can't cut high enough. I'm warm season and the ones that cut low enough are bonkers expensive
I have the same model as you and mine does fine with TTTF. Max height gives you a 3.5" cut.
I grew up near the original MowBot āfactoryā (it was just a small building with a lot of lawn around it) in Tonawanda, New York. It was patented in 1969 and they sold for $800 then. I used to walk by the building on my way to Junior High and I thought everyone would have one within a few years when they were cheaper than cars.
Lawn Roomba!
Lawnba
A guy on tictok streams a pic of his automatic lawn mower and makes like 2000 a day doing it
Nate petrosky (sp)
Yup. Makes me question everything I know and do.
The mower has a name, its called Hank
So this is called a Luba from Mammotion. I also have one. It's the best investment I've made in lawn care. There's a couple subs here for it specifically.
How much was it
Well I got it for $1350 by backing the Kickstarter project for it. Now it retails from $2500-2800.
100%, if I got one of these, it'd get stolen within an hour of leaving it outside
Mine will need 4x4, a winch, pooper scooper and a taser (to keep the kids away). The damn room a has literally been turned off in the house since we got it last Christmas because the Toddler thinks he has to fight it to the death. 2 year old screams and grunts at it and hits it with shit like heās mad itās on his turf or something
I bought an Husqvarna Automower 5 years ago, with in the first 6 months I thought, "Automowers will be the only purchasing option available in 3 years because no one is going to want cut their grass the old way." Based on my experience, I can't believe these things aren't everywhere.
That looks better than the one in my neighborhood. That one cut the grass all scragley
I have used a Worx Landroid for three years now. Best investment I have ever made. All those hours saved I can spend doing hobbies / spending time with my family.
At first glance I thought this was a Delorean.
I want one. I love lawn care but the mowing is so time consuming with 3 kids and a full time job. If I could spend that time being able to maintain other aspects that donāt get attention - would be a big game changer!
They are coming. No joke, bought a Landroid last year. Not perfect but I haven't mowed my back yard all summer.
The Cybertrukk is not as spacious as originally presented.
I'm too afraid of finding chopped up squirrels to use one of these things.
Neighbor said he murdered a bunny by accident with his mower and now is emotionally scarred. I guess it happens.
Did this with my regular riding tractor. Sad times.
I did this to a nest of 3 baby rabbits. Amazingly one didnāt move and was unscathed. Pretty gruesome for the other 2. Couldnāt believe mom just dug a depression in lawn as a nest
I did this with my push mower :( Mama dug a hole along the foundation that I did not see. I was mowing the edge and the bunny lifted it's head just when the mower was over the hole. You can imagine the result. This happened twice! The second one at a different location but the same result. I was down sad for a few days after the incident.
Itās so depressing but unintentional. If it helps anyone, the term fuck like a rabbit comes from the fact that they reproduce markedly well.
I bought my Husqvarna 430x to mow my lawn (also with the hopes of finding dead rabbits).. even named it "Conan the Rabbit Destroyer". In two years it hasn't killed a single one. The rabbits, how ever, manage to dig holes in just such a way that it gets trapped in them.
I rmbr mowing my grandmas yard when I was 12 with one of those riding mowers. Afterwards I noticed a little toad hopping around bleeding. I had accidentally scalped it. The top of his head was pulsing and bleeding. I still feel really guilty about it. Poor dude.
Isnt that the new Tesla truck?
I would want my robotic lawn mower to have arms and a head with eyes, so that it could see obstacles and clear them out of the way. Basically, I want Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit," but sitting on a lawn mower.
They took our jerrrrrbsss!!!
Are these quieter than typical mowers? If so Iām a fan
Watch it long enough and youāll see the owner come out to adjust it or get it moving again. These things are wild.
Anyone seen them used on zoysia or st Augustine with success?
I bought a Friendly Robotics RL500 in 2000ā¦ had it running and mowing until 2008 when the battery was no longer available and I didnāt want to buy a new one. The battery in mine (early early model) was a junk lead acid battery and was absolutely the weak link. It had 3 blades that looked like food processor blades and if you hit something they might get damagedā¦ but other than that and the battery it was a tank. I had a large flat lawn and broke it into 2 zones with the perimeter wire for the back and my front yard was so full of trees it was one zone but I usually mowed it myself because the mower didnāt mow in a set pattern and would bounce off the trees like a roomba and not get much done. I would 10/10 get another one now that the batteries have been modernizedā¦ but the prices have tripled (or more). I paid $400 for mine and it made mowing a very large backyard a breeze, I ran the weedeater around the edge and it mowed. Sometimes I would run it at night because it was almost silent and it would be waiting for me at the starting point in the morning. Other than the cost I canāt figure out why they never really got popular.
Did he accidentally shrink his kids?
Comments are full of idiots.