A prima industrious garden helpers

The Lawnmower R40 Li Gardena is since August 2012 minus the winter break, with me diligently in use. Light he has not: My almost 400 sqm lawn are overground remodeled 2 dogs and underground by numerous voles and moles repeatedly. Together with an old and fairly low-lying flagstone, fruit trees and flower beds due to the fact for him a rather uneven field of work with from time to time new obstacles. Garden and robots have of course only have to get used to each other. The boundary wire I have a few times and correct change before all crash sites were protected and excluded all dead spots. Some small flower pot got securing posts. Now he is barely hanging times or is for any other reason to fault.
He must work mainly at night, it is so quiet that it will not interfere in the summer with the windows open. Something I let him go during the day when I'm at home, so I can see and hear whether it is working properly. His charger I have covered with a half-210l water butt, so he has a secure bunker when he takes a break. This I leave him even if heavy rain is announced, because the narrow wheels in the wet is not much grip and he then saut not unnecessarily from the bottom with wet grass clippings. But he is not afraid of water.
The 3 meter do I change about every 2 months in between is also, according to the weather, a little brush from below hip. This is not to do with a hose you, so scrape with a small spatula or screwdriver due. Longer than 5 minutes but not need it.

But the best in all, the result and the time savings: I do not work to the normal 9-17 times and had always used to when I had a day off, a long, shaggy lawn, rather a meadow behind the house. Then work was properly announced and the free time was doing it. Since the robot is working, I have to be working field not once more have to work with the big lawn mower, not even after the winter break. Just a few dead spots and a small area in front of the house I have to mow even that fills just the pot of my mower. On the main surface of the lawn is always equally high, one might think he would no longer grow. That's just great.

Rasenmähprofis will naturally complain that more strips from the wheels back and you can see the robot mowing cross on the surface and that one can not create parallel Striping and patterns more. Also, of course, has not the entire lawn, the exact same amount, because the robot needs to be passed all times on average about 3 working days to. And professionals ask their Mowers certainly a low when I set the robot. Because at too low a setting he remains too often are at bumps or small obstacles and then reverses. Due to the short wheelbase of the robot the lawn surface is uneven overall, a great mower or even a lawn tractor create a ebeneres image. One must also keep in mind that you can not readily scarify a robot lawn, because there are the boundary wire and the middle and the homecoming cable. You can also buried.

I give the robot still 5 stars because the labor savings and be proficient, uncomplaining work make every little flaw a minor matter.

Only one wish I have for a successor: a small, simple remote control would be great. You would just have the can, you have to do on the display and keyboard on top of the unit now. Then there could be the rickety cover accounts and could the robot sometimes from afar a "Go home" - enter command when rain threatens.