Automatic Gutter Cleaning Robot

[Canadian GreenScape]

From the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner.. the "Looj" gutter cleaning robot. Seems pretty stupid to me but I still want one to play with. Even has a belt clip, snazzy.

iRobot's site - http://store.irobot.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=2804605

Video - http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=355

I think I'd rather have one of their unmanned, armed, John Deere Gator's designed for millitary use.

[topsites]

Somehow I get this feeling it's one of those things that works great in demos and videos and television infomercials and testimonials and all the pics and blablabla about how fast and good of a job it does, until YOU buy one and go to put it to actual use, then suddenly and mysteriously it becomes an absolutely worthless piece of crap. :laugh:

[Supper Grassy]

Somehow I get this feeling it's one of those things that works great until YOU go to put it to actual use, then suddenly and mysteriously it becomes an absolutely worthless piece of crap. :laugh:

Agreed, they will market the crap out of them... they are so great, yada yada.... then they "Stop working"

[NJT]

Someone should get one and tell the rest of us how it is :)

[Jason Rose]

Well that has to be the dumbest thing Iv'e seen today... How often do you find DRY and LOOSE debris in a gutter?? Pretty much never. That thing is just another grand scam. However the inventor will get rich I'm sure.

[Dunn's]

I don't know with the drought across the country this year you just might find all that dry crap in their

[Sweet Tater]

Well that has to be the dumbest thing Iv'e seen today... How often do you find DRY and LOOSE debris in a gutter?? Pretty much never. That thing is just another grand scam. However the inventor will get rich I'm sure.

I was wondering if anyone else noticed how nice and dry that gutter was.:confused:

[WALKER LANDSCAPE]

The video did'nt actually show the little guy work thou, or did I miss something.:hammerhead:

[Vikings]

I don't know with the drought across the country this year you just might find all that dry crap in their

Mostly people don't call you for eave cleaning till they are having problems. That means plugged down spouts and eaves full of water. However, when you do get an easy job, because someone has it done routinely, I have been known to just make a bunch of noise and pretend to be doing something.

I might as well get me one of these for the winter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aamcWdGG8kk

[newz7151]

The video did'nt actually show the little guy work thou, or did I miss something.:hammerhead:

the other videos below the first one where the guy is putting it in the gutter show it working and running the gutter.

I don't know though.. 15 hours to charge the battery and it runs for 20-30 minutes which they say is about 250' ...... not very useful compared to a nice high pressure hose.

[LushGreenLawn]

I guess this thing also gets up, goes and gets the hose, and unclogs the downspout?

Homeowners won't use this because they still have to climb a ladder. Any homeowner that will climb a ladder will have enough sense to see that this is junk

[Vikings]

A high pressure hose isn't useful. people don't want you blowing all that crap all over their house and yard. It's very rare when I come across an eavetrough cleaning job where I can just drop the crap onto the ground. All lot of what comes out of an Eave with problems is decomposed leaf material that smells like a sewer. You have to scoop it by hand into a bucket, and dump the bucket into a garbage bag.

[newz7151]

A high pressure hose isn't useful. people don't want you blowing all that crap all over their house and yard. It's very rare when I come across an eavetrough cleaning job where I can just drop the crap onto the ground. All lot of what comes out of an Eave with problems is decomposed leaf material that smells like a sewer. You have to scoop it by hand into a bucket, and dump the bucket into a garbage bag.

This device is not designed for mass commercial gutter cleaning use, it is designed for homeowner use, and I, as an individual would rather use a high pressure hose to blast the stuff to a downspout and scoop it out there than to pay money for something that charges for 15 hours to run (supposedly) for 30 minutes.