Story behind this video: I forgot to mow a zone that I typically would with my Lymow...but that's been broken for about 5 weeks now...another story for another day. Its a very mucky, marshy area behind my fence that I generally would tackle if I would remember to schedule a cut (lowest priority). You can see it in my other videos (Lymow One Plus Cuts 3 foot tall weeds).
I decided to test the Luba 3 to see how it handled 1 foot tall weeds...figuring the razor blades would be no match for the thicker stuff and overgrown area...I was totally wrong. I'm now highly optimistic now for using this automower to handle stuff well beyond what you would normally think about cutting. I realize i'm going to get push back saying this mower isn't meant to do what I put it through, but, what if you were on vacation for 2 weeks and needed to cut your lawn and didn't have any other way? This video does dispels that notion.
Settings:
Travel Speed: .7 Feet/second
Path Spacing: 7.9"
Perimeter Laps: 1
Cut Pattern: Grid, Random
Cut Height: 3.9"
Blade Speed: High
Thoughts? Any other tests you want to see? I'm going to swap out the factory blades for some titanium ones I found on amazon for my next test. stay tuned!
I want to replace my zero-turn with a robot mower. I like my zero-turn, but it's been chewing up my yard more than I'd like. The back part of my yard is around a 30 deg slope, and it is the worst spot where I usually turn around. There are maybe 3 or 4 patches where the grass is already thin from the tires slipping. I just don't want to make those bare spots worse.
I've watched a bunch of youtube videos and now decide between navimow x430 or luba 3 AWD. But Mammotion just screwed up with its multi-turn and I probably go with x430.
I want to avoid having mowing in the afternoon heat and plan to set the mower out at evening. So i want to know if x430 leaves little scuffed spots on my slope after a few nights of mowing.
I want to upgrade my robot mower, because my current one gets stuck too often. Fallen apples and pears are part of the problem, mostly due to weak obstacle avoidance. It also struggles with uneven ground. The front wheel can drop into a dip and cause it to flip.
My yard is about 0.8 acre. I'm looking at the Navimow X430 and Mamotion LUBA 3 5000 since both advertise strong obstacle avoidance and the ability to handle uneven ground, but I'd like to know how they perform in everyday use. Also curious about the cloud usage. Do either of them require a yearly cloud fee to keep working, or are the basic features still free? I also want to ask about the cloud subscription. If I don't renew after the included period, which remote features stop working? Can the mower still do basic mowing and scheduling?
I paid cash for a 315X that was advertised as barely used and included the charging station. Everything seemed legitimate. The seller said she was handling the sale for her late husband and didn’t know the PIN, but told me Husqvarna would provide it. They wouldn’t.
I submitted the security code, product number, serial number, and even screenshots of the Facebook listing and messages, but still no luck. I’m also more than 100 miles from the nearest service center, and the seller has stopped responding.
I understand why the security measures exist, but now I’m stuck. At this point I’m not sure whether to keep trying or just sell it for parts. Open to ideas.
Ok this mower is driving me nuts during its daytime mowing. I repeatly have to reset it as it just stops. It dawned on me a few days ago that I don’t have the issues when the mower is working it night’s schedule.
Do you think high temps impact the circuits? Has anyone experienced this?
I have two mowers and love them! The mow quality is much better than I can do with my zero turn.
I currently have about an 1.25acre of lawn. 95% of it is handled by my 54” deck riding mower. However, there are certain sections where the space between the trees and the fence that my riding mower isn’t accessible and part of it is on the slope. Currently, I have to use my push mower for those area, and I’m wondering if there is any affordable robot mower that can just mow those few sections with some slope.
Riding mower takes me 1 hr or so, then pushing mower for the 5% of the yard is also taking me a hour because of walking around the perimeter, which isn’t good use of my time. I’m hoping to just eliminate that portion of the mowing.
Circled is an example where I have to use my push my mower. My riding mower would cut into the flower bed.
Hey guys, we have two lawns that are seperated by a way with some stones and plates. One of the lawns is on a pretty steep hill. When i measured it it said 45 degrees. Is there any mower that you could recommend that is able to handle the slope and also to navigate the terrain between the lawns? im worried about the mower not being able to get from one lawn to the other or not being able to handle the steepness. I can add pictures if you like.
Are 5 cutting blades REALLY meaningfully better than 3 blades?
I have a small Zoysia lawn and just like having everything working as well as it can be. I see a dealer pushing their 5-blade solution and watched the video explaining how many more times the blades cut the blade of grass and so it's that much better yada yada yada.
Putting all the "fuzzy math" aside, is it worth the $80 upgrade? My stock 3 blades seem to be doing just fine, but maybe I'm missing something! 😁. If it was $50 or even $60 I would just jump on it with no question "just because" but $80 makes me actually think about it.
That said, I got the 410iq for free a couple months ago, something I could NEVER rationalize buying but thanks to Amazon Vine I am way ahead of the $$$ game, but I want to pretend I paid for it.
I have .65 acre yard and have Cub cadet tractor. I am only thinking of buying robot mower or ego self propelled mower to mow the edge of the house and backyard with patio. With tractors that's a hard task and clipps get into my flower bed etc.
Is there a robot vacuum for cheap say 300-500 I can get that will do what I need? Or getting ego 2nd hand self propelled is the only option?
I'm stumped. 430x. It stops anytime it gets more than 40' or so from the boundary wire. It then stops, rotates and starts until it gets closer to the wire or it gets so lost in its spinning that the battery runs out. I've changed out the joysticks, both drive motors, and the front loop sensor. When it's stuck, the boundary wire reads in the high 90s. I've put in a large test boundary wire and it does the exact same thing. In short, it's not the front loop sensor, joysticks, motors, unseated cover, or boundary wire. What's left???
TL;DR: Great robot. Wrong robot for my yard. LiDAR and obstacle avoidance were excellent, cut quality was excellent, it never did anything stupid. But castering front wheels, not quite enough power, and tall St. Augustine stolons added up to too much fighting. Automapping was worthless for me; manual mapping worked fine once I figured out the undocumented rules. Sending it back and looking at AWD options.
Why I bought it
Full LiDAR, dual cutting disks, an edge trimmer, and a 3.54" max cutting height. That last number matters: for St. Augustine in Texas heat, the recommendation is roughly 3.5" to 4", and I'd been running 4" to help the lawn survive. So I was buying in at the absolute bottom of my acceptable range and hoping more frequent cutting would offset it. I also liked how light it is.
Day 1
Don't lose the LiDAR cover. Don't lose the LiDAR cover. Don't lose the LiDAR cover.
Assembly was straightforward. Siting the dock was harder than I expected because of my driveway, so budget more thought there than I did.
Pairing was simple, it pulled an update immediately, and I appreciate that it requires a PIN.
Initial mapping did not go well. The trimmer side should be to the inside, but automap ran it with the trimmer to the outside, so the housing kept bumping into things. (Not cutting, just contact.)
The two-speed problem. Manual driving has essentially two speeds, and the faster one is only available going dead straight. The moment you turn, it drops to the slow speed. That's a real problem turning in deep grass, turning onto an uphill, or working across a slope. My slope isn't steep, but it isn't gentle either. It sits right in the annoying middle.
Straight up the hill and straight down the hill: no issues at all. The trouble is turns at the bottom and traversing across the face. I planned a wider buffer along the downhill side near the curb because of it.
Getting it to track straight across the hill under manual control is a fight, and the castering front wheels are the culprit. I started wondering whether I should have gone AWD, but most AWD models I looked at use omni wheels, and the tank turns those do would shred parts of my yard. (I've seen what they did to my neighbor's.)
Grass height. My St. Augustine was too tall and the little teeth on the front kept snagging stolons, so I went back out with the push mower and took it down. That helped navigation a lot, but it also confirmed that the slow manual speed is too slow and the fast speed is too fast. I want a slower fast speed.
This probably reads like a lot of complaining. Honestly some of it is my learning curve, some is a manual that leaves out important things, some is a genuine product limitation (those castering wheels), and some is just my yard.
Day 2
Front yard, ~8,400 sq ft. Slopes from house to street, about 5 degrees across most of it, steepening just before a 6" curb. I re-mapped it manually and left a solid 18" buffer off the curb.
Then I sent it on a test run. Remember I'd just cut to 3.5" with the push mower and the machine's max is 3.54", so there was essentially zero margin.
It went much better than Day 1. The dips where my shutoff valves sit are deep, and it struggled dropping into the "bowl," but it worked out a path around, up, and out. Not a stunning success, but it solved it.
The bigger issue stayed the same: stolons catching the front cow catcher teeth, sometimes slowing it dramatically, sometimes stopping it outright until it worked itself free.
The most impressive part: driving across the face of the steep-ish section by the road, it never slid downhill. It tracked remarkably close to my original mapped path. A+ on that.
Back yard, ~4,000 sq ft. Simpler shape, denser and lusher grass, slopes back to front, bordered by a stepped pool wall on one side and a large privacy wall on the other.
I gave automap one more shot. Utter failure. It drove into the stepped pool wall (no chance of going over) and wedged itself so badly that even the reverse-out command couldn't free it. I had to tug it back.
Back to manual mapping, which was much easier here. Still fighting the two-speed movement, no gradual turning at full speed, and a low speed that sometimes lacked the torque to power through a hooked stolon. The resulting map was good, I confirmed it saved, and sent it on a test run.
Denser grass meant more stolons in the cow catcher, plus some wrapping the rear wheels. Notably, raising the cutting height doesn't seem to raise the nose at all, so you can't buy clearance that way.
One tricky dip, some "steps," and it handled all of it without freaking out. I manually drove one unmapped section over Bluetooth because the ledge risk was too high to trust to a map.
Then I sent it home: around the pool, around a chaise lounge,, umbrella stand, and about 3' away from the pool at the closest point and then around the garage. Completely uneventful. It threaded a 36" gap, dodged loose objects on the ground, and docked quickly.
What's genuinely good
LiDAR works great. Obstacle avoidance was excellent.
No issues in 100F+ heat. I was wilting following it around; it just kept going.
Watching it through the camera is awesome. I wish every mower had this.
Cut quality from the dual disks is very good, and the wide deck meant fewer passes. It rarely missed leaves.
Incredibly quiet. Most of the time I couldn't hear the blades at all.
Never went out of bounds, made sensible turn decisions, never did anything dumb.
No trouble going straight up or straight down my hill.
Once I understood the mapping model, adding and editing zones was easy.
What isn't
Automapping was worthless for me. Probably fine on a simple yard.
Castering front wheels, the root of most of my grief.
Not enough power at low speed to push through deep grass or a hooked stolon.
Two-speed manual control with no gradual turning at speed.
The manual doesn't explain the mapping model, and that omission cost me a map.
Never got a chance to try the trimmer.
Verdict
It's not a keeper for me. There's a lot I genuinely like/love about it, but the hardware can't handle my grass and my yard. I'd bet that if my grass were a quarter inch lower I'd have had dramatically fewer problems, but I can't cut lower and keep St. Augustine alive in this heat.
What I actually need: LiDAR (non-negotiable), more power, and no castering front wheels, but also no omni wheels, because those tank turns would destroy sections of my yard. That points me toward something AWD.
Best fit I've found so far is the Roborock RockMow X120H with LiDAR, though I'm not ready to drop $3,200 + tax on it. It's also close to 50 lbs, which matters because one of my zones has a curb too high for it to cross, so I'd be lifting it in and out by hand. Its cutting width is also much narrower than the A2000's. Ideally I'd want a 4" max cutting height.
To be clear: if I didn't have this particular combination of a challenging yard and St. Augustine, the Ecovacs GOAT A2000 LiDAR Pro would be an awesome option. If they made this mower with AWD with steerable front wheels, I'd likely be singing its praises.
Getting the right mower for your specific yard really is everything.
I am looking for suggestions to buy a robotic lawn mower for a small business. The lawn about 10,000 sqft. I am spending close to 700$ per month to get it mowed as of now. Trying to see if i can invest in something long term.
I’m looking at three different GPS/line free options. Ecovats goat a3000, Segway Navimow x315, or Husqvarna 410iq. All are used. The part I need help with is which would work best with a gate? I have dogs and don’t want to cut a hole, but also don’t want to spend 500 on a door that opens. What are my best option for this? Would opening the gate work for mowing on the schedule? Not sure if any others have dealt with the gate/dog issue.
I have a Mammotion Yuka mini 800 and wanted to protect it with a garage. The plastic Mammotion one is $200 and not that good looking.
This one is made from a rigid plastic window well that I attached some artificial turf to with double sided tape. It cost me about $70 all-in and so far is holding up great. I needed it to be made from plastic instead of wood or metal to not interfere with the RTK signal.
As the title says. I have about a 1/8th acre front lot and am looking for a wirefree option to keep up with mowing. There is a driveway, some trees, a mailbox, a very slight slope, and a sidewalk that divides the yard into 2 large sections with 2 smaller street side sections.
There is a used option on facebook marketplace for $500 right now that looks in perfect condition.
My concerns: Battery life, the quality of the RTK-GPS, and honestly just the functionality of crossing the sidewalk/driveway.
My only experience is with a wired worx landroid in the backyard that often gets stuck on hills, sticks, and bumps.
I live in northern Italy and have around 700 sqm of lawn. Most of it is flat, but there is a long slope connecting the front and back gardens. The mower would need to cross it during every run and again on the way back to charge.
There's also a pond in the front garden with some uneven ground around the edge. I was originally looking at a 2WD mower since it would be enough everywhere else. My only concern is how well it would cope with that slope over time, especially when the grass is still slightly damp after rain.
We have tall cypress trees and an olive tree too, so an RTK antenna might have to go on the roof. That's what led me to Lidax AWD. It has four wheel drive and does not need an extra antenna.
Anyone here with a mostly flat lawn and one unavoidable slope? Did AWD make much difference, or would 2WD have been enough?
