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    #11
    Cheers everyone I went with an Einhell FREELEXO 400 BT. £300 with 3 year warranty and a standard replaceable battery (seems the common failure point for other mowers but the batteries can be purchased for £40). It has Bluetooth control and mainly good reviews. Should be ok for my smallish lawn <200M .

    https://www.einhell.co.uk/p/3413948-freelexo-400-bt/

    I have some of their tools and they have been very good.

    I will keep you updated.

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      #12
      Originally posted by vetran View Post
      Cheers everyone I went with an Einhell FREELEXO 400 BT. £300 with 3 year warranty and a standard replaceable battery (seems the common failure point for other mowers but the batteries can be purchased for £40). It has Bluetooth control and mainly good reviews. Should be ok for my smallish lawn <200M .

      https://www.einhell.co.uk/p/3413948-freelexo-400-bt/

      I have some of their tools and they have been very good.

      I will keep you updated.
      The gardner says he uses a HUSQVARNA AUTOMOWER® 520

      https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/robotic...automower-520/

      Sent me a picture of it doing my grass as we speak. He says we lose a couple in the moat from time to time but overall it works. Great news for me, bad news for him as he's now redundant and he's being escorted off the estate as we speak.

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      'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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        #13
        Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

        The gardner says he uses a HUSQVARNA AUTOMOWER® 520

        https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/robotic...automower-520/

        Sent me a picture of it doing my grass as we speak. He says we lose a couple in the moat from time to time but overall it works. Great news for me, bad news for him as he's now redundant and he's being escorted off the estate as we speak.

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        Would have thought NLyUK could keep him busy! Does he look like Sean Bean?

        Who is going to paint the duck house?

        If you are losing them in the moat you need to adjust the boundary wire.


        £2600???

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          #14
          I've been a little tempted but truth is, I quite like mowing the lawn. When the current tractor dies (it came with the house) I might look again.
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins
          I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
          Originally posted by vetran
          Urine is quite nourishing

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            #15
            Originally posted by d000hg View Post
            I've been a little tempted but truth is, I quite like mowing the lawn. When the current tractor dies (it came with the house) I might look again.
            I spend too much time on CUK to mow the lawn! Seriously I swing between bored & so busy I can't move, so the lawn suffers.

            If I have a robot mower its flat & neat, then I can fire up the Suffolk punch when I want fancy stripes for parties rather than spending 2 weeks getting the lawn to look normal first.

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              #16
              Here's an alternative approach to lawn maintenance.

              First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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                #17
                Originally posted by _V_ View Post
                Here's an alternative approach to lawn maintenance.
                Moles? When we were having problems with the little blighters a few years ago, I read about a guy (German I think) who wired his garden to the mains and ended up electrocuting himself to death. No moles were harmed though.
                Scoots still says that Apr 2020 didn't mark the start of a new stock bull market.

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                  #18
                  Well "little red" (the working title of our new mower short for "Little Red Scything robot" better names welcome" despite being due on Wednesday it turned up at 10am this morning which was nearly a challenge as we were supposed to be out all day.

                  Nicely packaged etc.

                  More details to follow.

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