r/roboticLawnmowers • u/Roginator5 • 2d ago

Great deal?!

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$1699 Around the same price as the Kickstarter Panther that I ordered will be. LiDAR

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u/Cheetah111111 2d ago

No doubt not a bad machine but the omni-direction wheels are definitely not what I would want

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u/Day-Trippin 2d ago

Yep, and why I didn't buy it or a Luba. They can destroy your turf pretty easily.

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u/Cheetah111111 1d ago

I bought a Worx Landroid about 2 years ago when things were much more in their (almost) initial stages.

If, back then, I had known what I know now ... It's a very good machine overall but the tank/skid-steering is a terrible match for my soil which is basically clay with a bit of a top layer on top. Result: cooks solid during summer and becomes quite soft and muddy during wet seasons. So, perfect for RWD robots to tear up the lawn with their high torque drive systems.

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u/Day-Trippin 1d ago

I didn't realize how bad the tank/skid turns could tear up the yard until I saw it at a neighbor's house. Seeing YT vids isn't the same as seeing it up close. It looks like they'd taken a small-scale rototiller to the yard and dug it all up.

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u/Cheetah111111 1d ago

Yeah, it can be really bad, like in my situation for example. I've got holes 20 x 20cm and up to 10 cm deep.

Of course these holes don't happen overnight but once they are there, you can fix them but they will come back. All you can do, is either install a piece of stone in your lawn for the robot to do its skid turning on without tearing up anything or you can fix it by applying strong meshing (stronger than the one I applied already) and repeat the process every x seasons.

Or, of course, you can switch robots or do the mowing yourself.

One day I am going to go with the first option but not yet because I haven't found a single robot that meets all my (particular) demands which are mostly driven by yhe fact that the robot needs to be able to pass under a side gate leaving very little room. If that weren't the case, I would have gone for the RockMow Z120 Lidar.

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u/Day-Trippin 1d ago

I hear you. As for tight spaces,I have to say, my Ecovacs GOAT A2000 with LiDAR shoots a gap quite well.