Getting an electric lawn-mower was a better decision that getting a Tesla which is brilliant.
My mower always starts is light and easy to move , cut great, and it is red and black (like my Tesla)
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My electric mower didnāt come in the best colours. Works beautifully though.
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yep, iāll get an electric one when the one i have now gives up the ghost
Iāve got a robot lawn mower. I just schedule it to do its thing.
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Do you have a reasonable size (biggish) lawn to mow and if so what brand robot? I looked into getting an electric push mower when I had to buy one two years ago and was told for bigger heavier lawns they arenāt quite there yet. Maybe with a robot it could just keep taking breaks until it gets it all done.
We have currently about 200 sq m of grass, which is big enough.
My electric mower is a cheaper Ozito and it has handled it easily. I never cut is short though and do it regularly in the warmer months. I was worried that the battery would run out, but never has yet.
I originally borrowed a robot mower, but it never seemed to cover the whole yard on one charge.
I looked at them but my front lawn just didnāt suitā¦nowhere near level.
So i got an iRobot vacuum.
And i have a 32 amp Ryobi mower. Well 32 something.
I was going to get one of them but didnāt like the colour.
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36 volt?
I got the Worx robot mower.
Which is good for up to 1000m2.
It returns to its base station to recharge like a robot vacuum. It took me a bit of tinkering to get the boundary wires set correctly and fix a couple of snag points where it spun its wheels, got stuck, and dug holes.
My yard is around 200m2. Sir Walter turf.
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Yeahā¦that!
Had the 15K service this morning. Now I have to read up on what battery pre-conditioning means.
Had a look at a little abarth 500.
Got to say at the prospect of having next to no maintenance issues if you wanted a hot hatch over the traditional ICE version it wouldnt be a bad run about. Certainly makes you smile,
Shame i dont have the charging infrastructure at home or id consider it.
10k premium over its ICE equivalent but i would imagine very few trips to my mechanic vs the many expensive ones in a hotted up italian car.
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42kwh battery could easily be charged on that overnight.
Yeah it would cost thousands to run juice to where my cars parked.
And you would have a good time using up most of the juice each day
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Thanks BB. I probably have about 450m2 in the yard to mow and most of it is pretty thick buffalo and about the same in the naturestrip which I suppose I would still need to mow myself. How are the boundary wires set and I assume once done they are set for life? Also what causes a snag point? I have a lab already that can dig holes if he feels like it (doesnāt often do it anymore) so donāt need a mower to dig as well.
Snag points can happen near boundary wires where the elevation changes or the wheels cant grab effectively like a muddy spot or soft dirt.
There are newer models out now that donāt require wires.
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How could you say that about Nathan Lyon?
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Haha Do you remember that show on the ABC called āThe Inventorsā?
Every week they had people coming out with all sorts of great inventions. There was a panel who judged them. Two experts talked about how the idea was great, how they could be improved and the practicalities of getting to market. Then the third ājudgeā was this idiot from Sydney (?Dianne Fisher) who usually asked could it come in another colour
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Professor are you calling me an idiot for preferring RED & BLACK.
She smiles more than me.
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