I'm sitting here with my finger on the complete order button

[dasherHampton]

and I can't pull the trigger.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Worx-7-in-Landroid-Robotic-Lawn-Mower-WG794/207139521

It would be for the back yard only. I would keep mowing the front with my regular mower since I have to mow the strip between the sidewalk and the street anyway. It would cut my mowing time by more than half, I would estimate. I've thought about buying one for years. I like techy new toys.

It's not the money or anything like that. I feel like I'm succumbing to laziness buying something like this. What are the general experiences here?

 

[lxskllr]

Robots are nifty things, and I despise mowing the yard, but I'm skeptical these work well over the long term. If you're ok with possibly losing the money, I think it'll be a fun purchase for a season or so.

 

[Greenman]

and I can't pull the trigger.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Worx-7-in-Landroid-Robotic-Lawn-Mower-WG794/207139521

It would be for the back yard only. I would keep mowing the front with my regular mower since I have to mow the strip between the sidewalk and the street anyway. It would cut my mowing time by more than half, I would estimate. I've thought about buying one for years. I like techy new toys.

It's not the money or anything like that. I feel like I'm succumbing to laziness buying something like this. What are the general experiences here?

I got rid of my lawn. Front yard maintenance happens 4 times a year now.

 

[Micrornd]

I don't know, but it looks like an awful lot of plastic in that unit and at a 7" cut it's going to take quite a while to cut a lawn if it does the standard robot drunken wobble around the yard "oh that's the edge, let me turn around" type cutting.
Just seems like it's going to wear itself out with all the traveling back and forth vs actual cutting of a decent size swath.
A Roomba covers about 7" (maybe) and how long does it take to do a room completely?
And how many times does it run over the same area before it finally finishes the room?
Maybe look at a larger cut robot?

 

[IronWing]

I guess if you're deaf or don't have neighbors it might be okay. It would have to mow over three hours per day, five days a week to complete my yard (~6500 sq feet) according to the owner's manual. Also, the blade looks like it would get stopped cold the first time it hit a branch.

https://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/b5/b5b48c72-f64c-4ae4-87d1-7f0089a1abe8.pdf

 

[paperfist]

I got rid of my lawn. Front yard maintenance happens 4 times a year now.

You were able to just sell your front lawn?

 

[lxskllr]

You were able to just sell your front lawn?

Four times per year is when he cuts sod, and sells it to his neighbors :^P

 

[Greenman]

You were able to just sell your front lawn?

Ripped it out with a bobcat, put a gravity wall across the front, put in a bunch of plants, a drip system, weedgard, and a whole bunch of mulch.
Apparently my grass wasn't the kind the neighbors wanted to buy.

 

[dasherHampton]

I haven't pulled the trigger yet. I think I need to research bigger units. My yard is fairly sizable.

I'm pretty sure I will buy one this year. I'll post impressions if I do.

Just the idea of sitting back with a beer and watching a robot cut my grass amuses me to no end.

 

[zinfamous]

I got rid of my lawn. Front yard maintenance happens 4 times a year now.

see, that's smart. concrete has many uses.

 

[zinfamous]

I don't know, but it looks like an awful lot of plastic in that unit and at a 7" cut it's going to take quite a while to cut a lawn if it does the standard robot drunken wobble around the yard "oh that's the edge, let me turn around" type cutting.
Just seems like it's going to wear itself out with all the traveling back and forth vs actual cutting of a decent size swath.
A Roomba covers about 7" (maybe) and how long does it take to do a room completely?
And how many times does it run over the same area before it finally finishes the room?
Maybe look at a larger cut robot?

I watched a This Old House review of one of these, and it takes a day or longer for these to cut a medium-largeish sized yard. Yes, the blades are small so it is a narrow cut and yes, like all such robots it has no real pattern so it will just start off in random pathways and cut what it feels like, when it feels like it, leave half of that area untouched for a few hours until it decides to return to that area. The batteries drain quickly, so a lot of the cutting time is devoted to the mower returning to the station and recharging for a few hours before it gets back to work. .....so an 10+ hour job, inefficient pathway, long breaks, won't work overnight. Not unlike bullying your teenaged kid into doing the job.

Plus, I'd worry about thieves.

 

[paperfist]

Four times per year is when he cuts sod, and sells it to his neighbors :^P

Ripped it out with a bobcat, put a gravity wall across the front, put in a bunch of plants, a drip system, weedgard, and a whole bunch of mulch.
Apparently my grass wasn't the kind the neighbors wanted to buy.

I should have done that. Instead I forked over $1600 to cut down 2 giant pines just so the grass would grow in the front yard.

 

[Greenman]

I should have done that. Instead I forked over $1600 to cut down 2 giant pines just so the grass would grow in the front yard.

I'm not a grass fan. You have to water it, fertilize it, weed it, and mow it. My whole front yard rip out and replacement didn't take as many hours as one summer of caring for lawn. Now I just walk by it every day and think about how nice it looks.

 

[paperfist]

I'm not a grass fan. You have to water it, fertilize it, weed it, and mow it. My whole front yard rip out and replacement didn't take as many hours as one summer of caring for lawn. Now I just walk by it every day and think about how nice it looks.

I hear ya. I can't stand it either.I thought about doing something similar to what you did, but I live on a street with like 30 other houses that have grass so I didn't want it to look that drastically different.

 

[Greenman]

I hear ya. I can't stand it either.I thought about doing something similar to what you did, but I live on a street with like 30 other houses that have grass so I didn't want it to look that drastically different.

I was the trend setter on my street. The first few months after it was finished we had a couple of people knock on the door looking for the name of our landscaper. It was all my wife's plan and my labor.

 

[Homerboy]

Ripped it out with a bobcat, put a gravity wall across the front, put in a bunch of plants, a drip system, weedgard, and a whole bunch of mulch.
Apparently my grass wasn't the kind the neighbors wanted to buy.

/me checks user name.
Does not check out.

 

[Greenman]

/me checks user name.
Does not check out.

I'm a living dichotomy.

 

[Homerboy]

I'm a living dichotomy.

But is that a dichotomy as well? Negating the fact you're a living dichotomy? Is this a vicious circle and you don't even exist?