O.K. so what's Lounge verdict on robot-mowers? Am skeptical but tempted.

[UTUSN]

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Look, been having to mow for 3 months with climate change raining, at least 3Xmo. Am fed up.

So am *OLD* (74) and therefore/consequently reaching the end of how doing-it-m'self is entertaining. Yeah, my cardiologist wants me to exercise but claims this is beyond his "recommendations."

**** The riding mower (cheapest kind) had stalling, no-reverse problems from the get-go. Plus, my "helpful" Tim-Toolman neighbor just wanted to take it all apart and put it together with parts/screws left over, and it was never the same ever.

So I donated it to the VFW. Thinking it was LOST for workabilityl. Well, they FIXED it and then offered to mow my crap for $10/hour. Fuck that/them.

**** So it's been raining for 3 months, meaning I've been mowing about 1/week for 3 months. I'm 74, did I mention that? Am someday going to begin paying. Besides what I pay now for whatever.

*********So. Seeing these little robot mowers on YouTube. A wire around the perimeter. But I know it won't work, me laying some kind of wire somewhere, I don't thinks so.


What is the know-it-all Lounge consensus?

[UTUSN]

1. Here's what am tawkin' 'bout - not that the sprinkle knows how to mow

https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/reviews/best-robot-lawn-mowers/

[sprinkleeninow]

3. Whaddya think I yam? Helpless??!1

I can mow. A gasoline powered walk behind. I almost tipped our riding mower over once so was not allowed again. 😆

[UTUSN]

4. Don't ur MAN do it?!1

[sprinkleeninow]

7. No, I'ma manly woman.

[UTUSN]

9. Maybe. Am 74, don't 'xpect me mowing..

[sprinkleeninow]

13. I got nuttin' to mow currently. HOA lawn service does it.

We almost bought another single family, but opted for a townhome.

Who knew how my life would go topsy-turvy.

[sprinkleeninow]

10. No man. Was one. Reposed 2 years ago. I thot you knew.

[UTUSN]

12. Have *zero* idea what this post means, think I should know.

[sprinkleeninow]

14. My husband of 46+ years died suddenly and unexpectedly of cardiac arrest.

[dewsgirl]

31. I am so sorry.

[dewsgirl]

30. When I was 9, my brother was mowing the lawn and

hit a hot wheel, and it flew through the air and hit me in the pool, right under my eye. My Dr. said I could have lost my eye.
I have never been taught to mow ever.😔 I didn't do it, I don't see why I couldn't mow, always wanted to.😕

[sprinkleeninow]

5. People on here are gonna start talkin' amongst theirselves if they haven't already.

Why UT? Oh, Univ. of Texas.

[sprinkleeninow]

2. Pay. Then watch them on yer verandah while enjoying a cold beverage. Southern iced tea. No sugar.

Yer sweet 'nuff.

Or a Lawn Guyland Iced Tea, no akahol.

Or a bubble tea.🧋

(Did you not think I would show?)

Na z'drovje!1
Mens sano in corpore sano!1

⚓ 🚢 🌊 🧜‍♀️ 🦭 🦀

[UTUSN]

6. Am 13%

[sprinkleeninow]

8. Zat all? So low a percentage.

[UTUSN]

11. Depends on what U'n'moi are tawkin' 'bout, which is rarely the same thing.

[sprinkleeninow]

15. I took it to mean yer 13% sweet.

[UTUSN]

21. Am *literal* - 13% Chardonney - don't care 'bout taste er class

[sprinkleeninow]

23. So a Bohemian but not Bourgeois.

[sprinkleeninow]

16. Okay. Seriously, them robotic mowers are pretty kewl.

[UTUSN]

18. Finally, an objective on-topic verdict. Well, I'm not techie, don't want to hassle.

The YouTubes show the robot hassling all over the yard, no up and down. U gotta watch it wherever. Neh.

[sprinkleeninow]

20. Was gonna say like the Roomba vacuum going allover.

So, it doesn't mow in a typical pattern of rows.

[UTUSN]

22. Yew got it, so nite's over!

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Was wondering 'cause it's purty late.

Nite nite, Sailor!1

[dweller]

17. Am expecting Grovelbot

to chime in any moment now …

✌🏻

[UTUSN]

19. Hah! - U are the breath of *SANITY*! - but I have to return to the sprinle!1

[NJCher]

25. The prices are crazy

Forget that option. For that kind of money you can re-landscape with shrubs and ornamentals and cut out a big percentage of the mowing.

I put in 4 raised beds and raise tomatoes and lettuce in them.

If you want send me a pic of your landscape and I can give you an easy way to handle this.

[multigraincracker]

26. A third of my lawn has signs posted that say....

No mowing, butterfly habitat.

Now my neighbors think I'm cool and not lazy.

[LunaSea]

27. Automation is wonderful

just ask Gumby

[marble falls]

28. I'm for anything that allows this seventy something geezer set on the porch. Have you tried ...

... goats or sheep? We bought a Condo.

[Harker]

29. Give a pair of scissors to a Roomba.

Problem solved.

[Lars39]

32. We regularly see one near us

It seems to do a good job as far as we can tell. The yard is sloped a bit,too.