Robot Mowers Introduction & History

Yes! Sadly, they are not the ‘silver bullet’ for everyone. Robot mowers are great but there are plenty of reasons why you might be better off buying a normal mower. Such as…

• Robot Mowers are unable to mow anything but short grass. So if you have mole hills, fallen twigs and branches, large tufts of grass etc etc, things that you would normally just run over with a petrol mower, you will have to attend to and clear these by hand.
• If you have various sections of lawn where the mower cannot get to. For example… They cannot go up or down steps.
• It will leave a narrow margin of long grass where the boundary wire is. In most cases the owner will have to manually strim these areas.
• Despite having fairly sophisticated security measures in place, they are still vulnerable to theft.
• If you like striped lawns then don’t by a robot mower.
• If you are unable to provide a reliable and permanent power supply.