[Derwood]

Tell ya what: It would come in handy in the Fall for ME! It would mean no more getting up at 3:55 AM and starting before work on Thursdays!! And I still have 5 after work!

 

[SouthEastTurf]

I just ordered 50 of those robot mowers off Amazon. Going to start converting my customers over next week. I sold my SCAG and laid off my helper.
Sure hope this works.

 

[mlsceo]

I just ordered 50 of those robot mowers off Amazon. Going to start converting my customers over next week. I sold my SCAG and laid off my helper.
Sure hope this works.

In the immortal words of David Lee Roth, "Tell us how you do!"

 

[Youngandfree]

Dang, 2 times in one week. DRT. Dead Right There. Same room.

 

[Hayduke]

do you own a rumba ? Because from what I have seen, they still do a kinda crappy job, and the rumba isn’t designed to take the place of a human. It’s designed to keep a clean area, reasonably clean for a 3-5 day period before a human needs to do a manual sweep/vac. If they can’t get a rumba perfect, they are not going to get a lawn robot either.

Best rumba story I heard was a client who had one and an older dog.
She worked a 9-5.
Sometime during the day, the dog didn't make it out the dog door and left a rather large, very liquid puddle of poop on the kitchen floor. The rumba didn't detect it somehow and spent the day tracking nasty puddle poop all over the house and carpets...
Client got rid of the Rumba...

 

[mlsceo]

Dang, 2 times in one week. DRT. Dead Right There. Same room. View attachment 523087

You're just gonna have to shoot the poor motherf----r.

 

[Derwood]

Best rumba story I heard was a client who had one and an older dog.
She worked a 9-5.
Sometime during the day, the dog didn't make it out the dog door and left a rather large, very liquid puddle of poop on the kitchen floor. The rumba didn't detect it somehow and spent the day tracking nasty puddle poop all over the house and carpets...
Client got rid of the Rumba...

bro I told that story a dozen posts ago lolololol!!!!! Quit riding my coattails!

 

[Youngandfree]

You're just gonna have to shoot the poor motherf----r.

It actually does a decent job getting dog hair up. It just illustrates my point that a fleet of roomba mowers won't work the way envisioned in this post.

 

[mlsceo]

It actually does a decent job getting dog hair up. It just illustrates my point that a fleet of roomba mowers won't work the way envisioned in this post.

My dog sheds like crazy but I can't get a Roomba cause he would chew it to bits. Maybe I should shoot him...

 

[Hayduke]

bro I told that story a dozen posts ago lolololol!!!!! Quit riding my coattails!

Well, I guess it has happened more than once!!
Didnt have time to read all 8 pages of this thread.

 

[tobylou8]

Well, I guess it has happened more than once!!
Didnt have time to read all 8 pages of this thread.

Slacker! 8 pages is nothing compared to maxing out the hits! Miss checking in for 2 hours and you're 20 pgs behind! 😆😆😆

 

[tobylou8]

It actually does a decent job getting dog hair up. It just illustrates my point that a fleet of roomba mowers won't work the way envisioned in this post.

I thought about how a robomower would work on my properties this week and there wasn't a single property that would not need multiple robomowers. Until a robomower can open gates and hop curbs and handle terrain, it's a non starter.

 

[brydan]

I thought about how a robomower would work on my properties this week and there wasn't a single property that would not need multiple robomowers. Until a robomower can open gates and hop curbs and handle terrain, it's a non starter

But but but when the homeowner is out clearing sticks and pine cones out of the lawn they can pick it up and take to the back yard to mow...

And remember to continually move it to each area so the grass doesn't get too tall...

but they're so excited about an electric mower they'll still pay you $50/wk for the privilege of moving the robot...

and if it rains or they forget to move it they'll gladly pay you to bring a crew out to cut the grass back down so they can continue paying you for the priveldge of doing the work themselves...

Looks like a win win to me

 

[BrandonV]

Just installed my first one... We have a putting green in a courtyard the owner wants short short but doesn't want multiple visits through the week to keep it so. It was wearing us out scalping it every week so we're going to try this little guy. Have it set at 1" and will mow daily. I have hope!

 

[grass man 11]

Just installed my first one... We have a putting green in a courtyard the owner wants short short but doesn't want multiple visits through the week to keep it so. It was wearing us out scalping it every week so we're going to try this little guy. Have it set at 1" and will mow daily. I have hope!
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This is probably the best example of where it would work. Short grass, smooth lawn, single area (I assume no fences), small area, in a back yard with low theft risk. And your still going to service the rest of the property like normal.

 

[mlsceo]

Just installed my first one... We have a putting green in a courtyard the owner wants short short but doesn't want multiple visits through the week to keep it so. It was wearing us out scalping it every week so we're going to try this little guy. Have it set at 1" and will mow daily. I have hope!
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Respectfully, that putting green looks awful rough...

 

[BrandonV]

Respectfully, that putting green looks awful rough...

oh it is... it used to be a putting green, then they decided it wasn't so switched to weekly mowing for about 3 years.... now its a going to be green again. with once a week mowing we couldn't keep it short (got to about 3.5" tall, we had to scalp it bad before the robot can take over. We'll just sand it again in the spring and see how it goes.

 

[BrandonV]

This is probably the best example of where it would work. Short grass, smooth lawn, single area (I assume no fences), small area, in a back yard with low theft risk. And your still going to service the rest of the property like normal.

they actually have a cell phone built in now so you can track it when stolen

 

[grass man 11]

they actually have a cell phone built in now so you can track it when stolen

Well yeah. But doesn’t that come with a cost ?
And I know of lots of things that can be tracked when stollen and never recovered.

 

[BrandonV]

Well yeah. But doesn’t that come with a cost ?
And I know of lots of things that can be tracked when stollen and never recovered.

not that I've seen yet. it may have a couple of years free or something. they've not asked for payment on that yet. they may be able to make it up on sending me notifications on blade replacements etc.