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Offline Tac

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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2008, 11:39:49 AM »
what gets me in the demo of how the mower works is that it just runs around randomly cutting.

There is no way I can see that the mower will not miss a 'line' of tall grass it left behind... I mean, you step out of the house and see your lawn mostly cut but with some strips of grass that poke out above the cut one.. doesnt look good.



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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2008, 12:37:49 PM »
You have to think in terms of what your grass will look like over the course of a week. If you have bits that have not been cut you increase the amount of run time per day. My grass looks like it never grows compared to the people around me as we have no fences between us, so you can see the length from next door over a period of a week there grass is about 3 inches longer than mine. Also there is a censor that detects longer grass when it finds these areas it will start cutting a grid pattern always getting larger until it detects no more longer grass then it will go back to the random pattern.

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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2008, 12:46:19 PM »
Probably works fine on the small yards like in their pics.
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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2008, 12:55:25 PM »
Probably works fine on the small yards like in their pics.
Latest version can do just on .75 of a acre. My yard is just under .5 of a acre.
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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2008, 01:02:47 PM »
  Maybe I am disabeled or have allergies or I am elderly? Do you know??? I think not.

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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2008, 01:06:04 PM »
bahhh when it can handle 2-3 acres and a couple 45 degree angle banks, give me a holler.




Xbrit you  :devil that was mean. but funny.  :lol
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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2008, 01:08:01 PM »
Yes, you can't spell disabled.
Yeah I know was bugged at the time of the post was not watching what I typed. Oh I got back in time to fix it time was not up after all for editing.
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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2008, 01:21:26 PM »
I have one of these:
http://www.friendlyrobotics.com/robomow/rl1000/

It mows my .6 acre lawn for about 3 hours per shot then returns to the docking station under my deck.  It pretty much gets everything per session but that does not really matter since he can be scheduled to mow whenever and its all automatic.  We named him Sanchez, the underpaid Mexican worker we never had.

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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2008, 01:32:44 PM »
On a big yard you can get 2 and name them Jose and Jos B
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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2008, 04:41:41 PM »
Bah, I have a Body corporate that takes care of all that pesky garden maintenance for me :P
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Re: Is mowing eating in to ah11 time?
« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2008, 10:31:58 PM »
Screw mowing, just install TuffTurf....Man I love this stuff.

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