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Lawn clanker does a better job than I do, and I’m sure the grass will appreciate being mowed more than once every other week.

What brand? Any major issues getting it set up?

@cjd

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Looks really nice. I didn't realize some of these things use string trimmers...

The object avoidance in the marketing looks pretty solid, though I guess you need to stake around flowers so they don't get ground up.

If I'm not mistaken, acre a day means you could conceivably map out 7 acres of property and have it do a different one each day (?)

For me it seems perfect with one exception: I wish it would bag the grass and carry it to a designated dumping location.

@cjd re flowers: you drive it around to define the cutting zone. After a cutting zone is defined, you can drive it around areas within the cutting zone to set "no-go zones" that it paths around during the cut.

No matter what you're still going to be string trimming, but I'd rather do 90m of string trimming than 4 hours on a mower deck AND 90m of string trimming.

Oh yeah, I never expected not to do a little weed whacking as well...

Like I said, the only real down-side is that it doesn't collect the grass and put it somewhere, also I wonder what it does what it drives under an apple tree with dropped apples...

@cjd > dropped apples

It has a front bumper just a robotic vacuum; a substantial obstruction will cause it to re-route. Apples are pretty soft though, so worst case it'd probably just slice it up.

> collect the grass

I've always preferred to just mulch it and let it lay. I leave the debris clogged in the ejection port and crank the RPM to max to hopefully dice the refuse. I'll open the ejection port up if an area gets too long between mows, but I doubt I'll have to.

Chopping up the apples is really not worst case at all. They're drops, so for me, they're abandoned.

The clippings, it would be nice if they could be collected for compost or chicken fodder.

I have an unsolved problem which is how to get the apple drops to the chickens, or the chickens to the apple drops, without me doing effort or chickens ending up roosted in the apple trees. We don't have any chickens yet, but this is something I want to solve before getting any...

@cjd @eriner I suppose if you are worried you could clip the chickens wings but chickens prefer the ground or a low roost. If your apple tree branches start 4'+ off the ground, you're probably OK and if you give them a nice home for the night they'll prefer to head back to familiarity.