daedalusminos
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Here's my Flymo doing its stuff...
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Erie Fred
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I thought Flymo's "Fly"
What those wheels for ? Landing gear ?
daleyd
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Astra Zeneca have a couple of stihl cordless mower bots doing some large lawned areas on their campus - it’s quite mesmerising watching them go about their work! They also had a little charging station set up where they would periodically go back to.
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Cordless robot
One guy here has them. I see them driving past. One went in his pond last year he said. Got stuck sort of half in and half out.
Apparently you get some sort of wire ‘fence’ for them and although he’d done it it had failed or something. Whatever. I laughed.
Apparently it survived the soaking.
This has probably been thought of but what stops folk nicking them?
Mrs79 won’t have them because they eat hedgehog’s apparently
Which is a fair point.
We have sheep instead anyway. They are all the positives of robotic mowers, no negatives and after the mowing season you eat them and get replacements next spring.
they are pretty cool.
One guy here has them. I see them driving past. One went in his pond last year he said. Got stuck sort of half in and half out.
Apparently you get some sort of wire ‘fence’ for them and although he’d done it it had failed or something. Whatever. I laughed.
Apparently it survived the soaking.
This has probably been thought of but what stops folk nicking them?
Mrs79 won’t have them because they eat hedgehog’s apparently
Which is a fair point.We have sheep instead anyway. They are all the positives of robotic mowers, no negatives and after the mowing season you eat them and get replacements next spring.
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Ahh back on topic 
I can +1 for ego kit.
Customer has to have it for a contract around the hospital. His donkeys could break anything and so far not that stuff.
Don’t know the specifics of what he has but for small gardens in the hospital he swears by it.
I can +1 for ego kit.
Customer has to have it for a contract around the hospital. His donkeys could break anything and so far not that stuff.
Don’t know the specifics of what he has but for small gardens in the hospital he swears by it.
I bought one of these for the lawn. https://www.parkerbrand.co.uk/petrol-lawnmower-21-inch
Everything about it is Chinese clone but for the price I cant fault it. The equivalent size Hayters were 4-5 times the cost and just couldnt afford one at the time. I have since refurbed a Hayter Harrier (the big one - made one good one out of two scrap ones). I use that a lot but the parkerbrand one still comes out on the rough stuff and it gets a hammering. I did have to put a metal plate over some plastic at the back as it was getting a bit battered, but if you are just mowing normal lawn or long grass (i.e. dont have sections where you have rubble in the long grass like me!) then you will be fine with the one above. Picks up well, engine has lots of power and the company post out very quickly.
Everything about it is Chinese clone but for the price I cant fault it. The equivalent size Hayters were 4-5 times the cost and just couldnt afford one at the time. I have since refurbed a Hayter Harrier (the big one - made one good one out of two scrap ones). I use that a lot but the parkerbrand one still comes out on the rough stuff and it gets a hammering. I did have to put a metal plate over some plastic at the back as it was getting a bit battered, but if you are just mowing normal lawn or long grass (i.e. dont have sections where you have rubble in the long grass like me!) then you will be fine with the one above. Picks up well, engine has lots of power and the company post out very quickly.
No. They're ****. Trading on being a British "brand" when they're as British as Ducati (and less reliable)...
Terribly designed, poor quality. Buy a Honda.
Our old Honda was >30 years old. Didn't service it for 10 years expecting it to die and then replace it...Failed to die. Eventually replaced it because the (aluminium) deck had corroded through in multiple places, the (solid plastic) wheels were bald, all the wheel bearings were shot....but it still fired up first pull & ran beautifully.
Mountfield otoh, level adjustment doesn't work properly, won't "stick" and if it does will often just collapse. Blade is secured by two minuscule sacrificial pins...that regularly break if you hit any heavy grass or a twig and then you need a new head. I'm on my third already.
The drive is hopeless, wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. It works via a V-belt that is then tensioned, the level of drive is dependent on the amount of slip... So unless the lawn is dead flat, no drive.
Still, the engine runs sweetly....because it's a Honda.
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We have a petrol Hyundai at the stables, Mrs Robo wanted one with electric start as she can't use a pull start, had it 3 or 4 years and I've never known her use it, I end up doing all the mowing and just use the pull start.
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She's got your number
