Robot mowers

[CloverKnollFarms]

I also wonder, we have rain/wet weather for sometimes a week at a time. So I assume it's not out mowing in the rain. So, it would have to mow grass from nearly 7" to 4" at times from April to mid June. Is that something it will do? Sadly I can't find any information on any of this. And like I said, most videos they are just riding across grass 2" or less in height, which tall fescue never gets cut to

 

[Fixastuff]

The people who don’t own one and have never used it always seem to know the most.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

The people who don’t own one and have never used it always seem to know the most.

I can only base it on reviewers who have them. Thats what they claimed at a cut height of 4". I'm not claiming to know the most. Otherwise I wouldn't be asking questions

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

This guy has some good information. He has a high lift system on it after showing a really poor cut with the standard razor blade system.

He was only cutting about 2000 square feet per :35 minute interval. That would take 20 hours to mow our lawn… not including charging. They claim it will cut .25 acres on a charge. And a charge takes about 3-4 hours. So add in another 21 hours of charging. If weather permitted it would take a couple days/nights to mow the lawn. So are they basically mowing all the time? If I only ran it in daylight it would take about 4 days to mow and it would then have to start at the beginning again?

It looks like the high lift system (pro) is the way to go on thick tall fescue

 

[lman]

This guy has some good information. He has a high lift system on it after showing a really poor cut with the standard razor blade system.

He was only cutting about 2000 square feet per :35 minute interval. That would take 20 hours to mow our lawn… not including charging. They claim it will cut .25 acres on a charge. And a charge takes about 3-4 hours. So add in another 21 hours of charging. If weather permitted it would take a couple days/nights to mow the lawn. So are they basically mowing all the time? If I only ran it in daylight it would take about 4 days to mow and it would then have to start at the beginning again?

It looks like the high lift system (pro) is the way to go on thick tall fescue

Yarbo's site states the following regarding the Yarbo Lawn Mower Pro:

"When operating between 80% and 20%, Yarbo covers about 0.25 acres per charge."

Is that a joke or what? It would need to be charged 16 times x 90 minutes to mow my yard at $6,000 for the mower.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Yarbo's site states the following regarding the Yarbo Lawn Mower Pro:

"When operating between 80% and 20%, Yarbo covers about 0.25 acres per charge."

Is that a joke or what? It would need to be charged 16 times x 90 minutes to mow my yard at $6,000 for the mower.

Simple, don't get one then.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Yarbo's site states the following regarding the Yarbo Lawn Mower Pro:

"When operating between 80% and 20%, Yarbo covers about 0.25 acres per charge."

Is that a joke or what? It would need to be charged 16 times x 90 minutes to mow my yard at $6,000 for the mower.

I mean, it seems on something 2 acres or more it would be mowing during almost all daylight hours. Especially if there were a rain day or two thrown in there.

For a smaller suburban lawn it would be neat. I was looking for an option to save me the 60 minutes I spend mowing 2 acres. Especially when $6k is a lot less than the $14k ZTR I currently have, and on par with a residential ZTR. I'm not sure it would keep up on a larger acreage lawn though with charge and run times. I also don't mow wet grass due to potential disease issues... So many days it's noon before I start. So I could cover .5 acre per day. Mowing once every 4 days would force it to cut about 2" off the top each time, not just a little trim.
I'm sure the tech will improve and by the time Im unable to weather the heat on the mower, they will be more capable.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

The Lymow claims almost two acres per day. That is a helluva lot more than the Yarbo

 

[rontaki]

The robot mows while you do other stuff
So what if it is busy all day every day.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

The robot mows while you do other stuff
So what if it is busy all day every day.

Because I often get a few days, to a week of wet weather, so if someone says it's not made to cut tall grass... Well, it will definitely be cutting tall grass if it only gets to it once per week. And if it takes at least 4 days to cut it... It will need to mow tall grass on day 5.