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are they going to address the fact it doesn't run the no-go zone when it's looking for its base? That actually seems like it would be extremely easy to implement...
Lol could you imagine a trespasser in the back yard getting that automated announcement right before the lawnmower activates and starts running toward the intruder? Hilarious.
Of course it does! However, please be advised that even if you do decide to get the optional "Sweeper" it will not take out all body parts automatically - you will need the future "Butcher" option for that. ----- Kind regards from your Mammotion customer's support officer.
I have had a number of different robo mowers. The best one I think is the WORKS landroid cut to edge version. This one does do the edge strimming. I have it on automatic after I tell it the square meters of the garden. It then comes out when it wants during a set time frame. It also skips when it is raining. It’s the best one I have had. Strimming is not perfect but very good.
Got my first robot lawnmower today. Currently watching it mow the lawn in awe. Nothing like the quality of this one as only a tenth of the price. But I have seen the peak of human evolution.
I have a Flymo lawnmower and have had it for 3 years. Collecting the clipping is totally unnecessary if you're running it daily as advised, I've never had to worry about thatch etc The thing I would want in any future upgrade is a) good navigation that didn't need me to have a wire buried b) edge trimming, as that's still a pain
It's superbly quiet and does a great job. Some have commented that the lawn doesn't look much shorter, but I could just lower the ride height. The replacement blade packs are only about 30 quid too which I didn't realise until my father in law said it yesterday
OK, so, you have gifted a colony of ants with an armoured vehicle equipped with spinning blades, the ant equivalent of the Death Star. I for one welcome our new ant overlords 🙃
Yes it is more expensive, but that is what you pay for extra features. Want more from it then pay more for the better fully featured one. Kudos to them for cutting out the none essentials yet still giving the great features. My landroid has been trying to dig through to Australia where it does a turn and now I need bricks buried so that it can make it's way around the perimeter. The Mamotion Yuka would be a huge improvement for me if I could find the money!
It's a considered purchase for sure, even at half the price of the luba2. Love it though, looking forward to an update from my in laws as I've given it to them and just gave them the collector/sweeper add on yesterday
You absolutely don't need to collect the grass with a robot mower. They come out often to trim so leave tiny cuttings. I've had a robot mower for about 8 years, if you run a scarifier, nothing comes out. Just get the robot going most days and you're good
My father in law actually pointed out to me yesterday that the collector is more about getting the leaves through autumn and now I wish I hadn't let him have it 🤣
On a serious note, I’ve seen other reviews of expensive & cheaper robomowers, but they all cannot be trusted 100% not to go over something like a sleeping pets tail or a child’s small toy etc. Excellent video Paul as usual!
@@davideyres955 due diligence here .. this is the response from chatGBT - It sounds like you might need some advice on trimming your bushes or hedges. Could you provide a bit more detail on what kind of bushes you have and what you're looking to achieve with the trimming? For instance, are you shaping them, maintaining their health, or addressing overgrowth?
I'm watching robot mowers closely. If I were buying one today, I might save up funds and buy the more expensive model. I am glad to see different versions with options. Who knows, maybe by the time I am actually ready, they will have a model between the two that has "just the right features"?
So Paul, the different pattern choices are not so much to leva a "pattern " in the lawn, but I am sure it would leave something for the first couple days after the mow. The reason you would want choices is you do not want to always use the exact same path when you mow because it is not good for the grass and if you change it up you are less likely to leave ruts in your yard. That is my understanding.
"Yuko not Yoko": Well, I like the sound of it better. "Don't have time for [mowing the lawn] since my kid was born": Consider this the new normal... maybe in another 20 years or so, you'll find some free time again. Mapping tech: I agree. This is the way to go. I think lawns that are made up of nice rectangular bits are the oddity, not the norm and placing wires takes at least as long as mapping and requires maintenance. Is there a way to update the map? "Won't mow while it's raining?" Will it mow when the grass is still wet? (You could probably add a moisture sensor and use an Alexa routine.) I often say that I appreciate the "What's wrong with it" section. I'd like to add that I also appreciate the bits where you took to time to explain that this one is half the price of the other one, so you should expect some compromises. Good review. I'd be seriously looking at this if my lawn wasn't the size of a postage stamp. (I'm lazy, but not quite that lazy.) The lawn is irregular (It looks like a congressional district after the gerrymanders have gotten done with it.) so the mapping feature would be a great plus. I'd thoroughly enjoy watching it run about (for the 15 or 20 seconds it would take) on these steamy summer days when the temperature exceeds safe sauna limits. (At least I don't have to pay for the "sweat lodge experience.")
Hey Russell, thanks as always for being here dude! Yes you can update the map, and you can also set it to not mow on Rainy days! 😁it uses the weather report and sensors apparently, though I've seen it leave it's base station a few times on wet days and then turn around and go back due to the wet grass
Thanks Paul, great honest reviews as usual. You omitted a link to your lawn slippers though, I've been on the lookout for these for a while now, hope to see a review shortly 😉😂
Dude! You have a kid! How come your garden lawn devoid of any plastic tat that takes just as long to clear as it does to do the actual mowing!? 😁 Anyway, congrats again on having a baby. I hope both him and mum are doing OK and you're all grabbing some sleep when you can. 🙂
Paul, enlightening and entertaining as always. Wait, the Yuka is like $2,150 pounds so 15 mows is like $145 a mow! I think the person is overcharging you for a 20 minute mow with a regular mower. I feel like I could come from Rochester, NY and mow the lawn cheaper than that... You were being overcharged or you should go into groundskeeping!
I think green paint would look nicer in the long run, or camouflage even better add a bit of brown for mud to it. . BUT white 🤣 you know in 3 mows its going to be filthy. 👍👍
The one I reviewed a month or so ago actually still looks reasonably clean bizarrely, especially considering I strummed around it and caked it in grass 🤣
Paul, I was wondering what do you when your done testing something out and don’t want to keep it. For example ,you said now you have two of these badass mowers. If I paid for shipping can I have one. And also your videos are awesome and love your jokes.
A lot of it goes into cupboards until I can find a use for it, alas this robot went to my mother in law, after she said she loves my jokes AND that I am the sexiest man alive 😉
Very nice mower, Paul. You do realise the manufacurer will sell the data coming from the mower like the map of your garden it creates and maybe even the data the camera gathers. 😉 Louis Rossman made a video about a vacume cleaner that maps the rooms of a house and sent the data to the manufacturer, including camera data. It's in their terms.
I suppose my first question is why? What will the Chinese do with a map and photos of my living room? But more to the point what would they do with a map of my garden that is already freely available on Google maps 🤣 I think Louis is grabbing those hits with melodrama personally
@@paulhibbert Fair question. selling al kinds of data is big bussiness, so there's always a buyer. It was in the terms of a robot vacuum cleaner, saying they collect the house map data and camera data. But why they do that the always fail to tell their customers.
The ecovacs goat is still less than a grand. It doesn't have the sweeper but I've had no issues with it and you can set a guard routine where it will patrol your garden
I too am rocking the vest or whatever the kids call them now. AC has been all nearly all week too. Amazon Essentials ones are really nice and soft #notashill
Feel like sleep deprived baby brain has taken full effect mate! Ya mentioned the grass collection box, but never reviewed it AND you forgot to thank one of your patreons at the end 🤣 Either way enjoyed the review. I'm still happy with my old Worx Landroid. Although the second anyone releases one that will strim, I will be clicking buy now.
I did actually say in the review it hadn't arrived in time to test it 😉 It arrived over the weekend and my in laws now have it strapped to the mower so they can update me on how well it works so that I can update the description for the video. I definitely want a robot that can strim!! 😍
Hey Paul , i have been watching your videos for a while and trust your opinion , i am looking for a smart light switch tat will work with alexa and have simple intigration to my minimal hoe smart systems at the moment , thanks in advance Neil
Very relieved that you didn’t sport a red shirt to beam down in. Now I can watch the rest of the vid knowing it ends well. (I don’t have a lawn, but I’ll still watch. It presses all my buttons.) Edit: yikes, toes nearly didn’t make it back from the green planet. Can you get skins for these? I think they’d look great dressed up as a frog, toad, turtle, stegosaurus. I need to get out more.
I’ve got half acre now had 7. Zero turn bobcat with dual bagger. 1 cut once a week I empty the two 40 lb bags each twice and 3rd empty is just bits. This would have to run every other day cutting 1/4-1/2 inch material
Rockery? Strimming? Are these Hibbertisms, or some kind of lawn terms I'd not heard of before because I've lived in apartments the majority of my life? And am I the only one disappointed that there isn't a rubber dog poo test with these like the vacuums?
Yuka crashed into a car and scratched it. Then it left the working area and headed right into the next obstacle. The navigation and the avoidance safety tech with the camera does not work good enough as for now.
@@paulhibbert you should be at the million mark by now Paul your the funniest guy out there lol forward to Saturdays because of you.... Guess it's all the Philips hue lovers unsubscribing all the time ,😂😂😂... Keep it up dude I'll try and make you viral!
Saturday morning: watch Transport Evolved then Paul Hibbert. It's "on sale" for £1,449.00, not sure what that is in Freedom Units but it's still out of my price range. You pay £100 per mowing? Folks around my neck of the woods pay around $35-$50.
Okay, I did the math(s), it costs 1,855.66 Freedom Units. That means it would pay for itself in about 1.325 years, American years, not sure what the conversion rate is. We don't usually mow snow here in New England, you probably don't get snow in Old England.
It is a gardeners market round here, I've actually tried 3 gardeners and they're all too busy to come regular and the quote for my whole garden was £300 just for a one off
Hey paul I don't really watch your videos regularly or much but my dad used to love watching your content, doubt you will see this comment but regardless, You might remember my dad Russell LeChard he was a supporter to your channel for years and recently he passed away from colon cancer on January 3rd. Just wanted to tell you how much he loved and supported your content and he would always be so excited every time Saturday hit. Take care!
@@paulhibbert thanks he was a massive hoarder tho and its been a mess trying to decide what to sell or throw out. Lots of computer stuff and lots of old things
I've got a Flymo that uses the wire, usually 600 quid but I got it for 300 second hand from amazon with a full 2 year guarantee. It's stupid, it bounces around, it doesn't collect the grass but it does get the job done, and while I love it I'd also like to upgrade for one that doesn't need a wire as I have multiple patches of grass to cut. My problem with robot mowers is the price. Yes, it's fully featured & a brilliant bit of kit, but how can they justify the prices for these when you can get a robot vacuum cleaner for a couple of hundred quid that has all the same features? Yes of course, you'd need a more powerful motor & higher capacity battery, but how does that translate to the stupidly high price point on these mowers?
I think the price of this robot is comparable to robovac with similar capability. Most robovac I test are over a grand if they have cameras and sensors. I appreciate Mammotion. Haven't quite got the obstacle avoidance right yet, but I have faith they will do. This is also a lot bigger than a robovac and has satellite navigation, so there's that
Whatinheck is a "rockery", ya English numpty? 😊 5:16 Seriously, thanks for all the videos - youve become one of my most trusted sources for things to put in my bespoke configuration.yaml files.
@@SirHackaL0t. really depends how big your lawn is as to whether or not £5000 is worth paying. If you have acres of land it quickly becomes a valuable commodity
It doesnt appear to cut grass !?! I would consider the finished height as time to cut the grass down to the inch or so it needs to be ,my 30 year old hover mower does my lawn in one cut AND collects the grass .
@@paulhibbert the trouble is pussy cats love grass that long and consider it a toilet ,not so bad now but when junior crawls about on it he will definitely find it and the germs it contains .Speaking as a grandad of 11 ofcourse LOL It looks a nice machine but they need strimmers on the side to get that long grass it misses .keep up the good work
We dig up nature. Put the plant we want (grass) we don't like the way it looks dead, so we bring unnaturaly amounts of water to it. but then we don't like the way it looks when it's too long, so we cut it. But now we spend so much in time inside, we can't be bothered to mow manually. so now our robots do it. all so we can enjoy our yard once a month when the wife asks us to go sit on the patio with her. but NO humans don't have an impact on the planet. not at all.
This was a field before it was a garden with guess what growing in it? 😂 Whilst I agree we've had a terrible impact on the planet through our consumption of fossil fuels, the concept of damaging the planet through the localisation of grass is nonsense. 10,000 years ago the UK was a tundra covered in ice sheets. Man had nothing to do with that, nor did man have anything to do with the ground thawing and being replaced by forests and guess what other fairly dominant plant? 😉 nature apparently didn't want anything but wooly mammoths living here 10,000 years ago, should we just do what nature wants now, or what it wanted then? Should I start scattering some ice cubes about and hope nature fills in the blanks? 5000 years ago we came and cut down a lot of the forests and made settlements, grass has been prolific ever since. Are you mad at the people of today or the people of 5000 years ago? Neither one of them has damaged the planet through the cultivation of lawns. If people didn't cut the grass, we'd all be wading to market through head-high vegetation. Do I just leave that area of land to become whatever it likes? At which point should I intervene; when it starts to get into the sewers and gutters? At what arbitrary point should I cut it if not at its most attractive height? It has to be cut some time. I suppose it's evil that I keep cutting my wisteria to stop it from eventually destroying my garage, or maybe it was wrong to plant it in the first place? You'll note I do actually have a wild patch for the bees and other wild life. Impact? Sure from the dictionary definition of impact, but no actual harm has been done by the previous owner's builders planting a really decent lawn for me to now enjoy the few times a year the UK actually gets some sunshine.
I had that issue at first and this might sound like a stupid question but have you definitely got the RTK plugged in to the charging station, got power the charging station AND made sure the RTK is away from any walls with a clear view of the sky? Check the lights on the RTK to see if they are green and whether they're flashing or solid, it should help you diagnose it.
@@paulhibbert - I've pretty much done all of that but I guess it won't hurt to try another experiment and see if that changes anything. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@paulhibbert - You were right. I moved the RTK out another two meters farther away from my house than I wanted to, and I was able to map a zone and it is now mowing. I guess I will just have to live with the new placement of the RTK. Thanks for your advice.
@@kirkrende3935 oh that's awesome man! You can get a wall mount for the rtk to mount it in the wall closer to your gutters if you wanted to mount it to the house but still get the signal
"At the rate my gardener charges for a cut of my lawn it will pay for itself in 15 mows" Are you hiding a football field off camera? Also most of us peasants will have to compare the prices to a traditional push mower and spending our own time, but I am happy you are doing well :)
Gardeners around here are taking the piss man. I have been to three now and they're all too busy to even do my lawn. It seems to be a gardeners market right now!
9:33 five mows it doesn't even look like the grass is cut. 10:12 a bit of dew on the ground and that thing isn't going to be emptying on its own like that.
I don't know what video you watched but that was a perfectly even lawn 🤷♂️ As for the dew, you just don't run it wet if you don't want to. Feels like you're taking really unnecessary pot shots at it.
He said it pays for itself in 15 mows so doesn't matter how many months per year it is being cut. I have a decent size lawn and pay £25 so it would be more like 60 mows to pay for itself or around 4 years
Yeah it's bullshit mate, it's also 1500m2 so surely you'd compare it to the 1000m2 luba which is is £2150 not the 3000m2 at £2550.. Either way they're ridiculously over priced for what they are.
This thread is super irritating 🤣 I tried 3 gardeners, zero of them are taking on regular work and the quote I got for my garden was 300 quid to get it "tidied up a bit". If you guys have found someone that will come weekly at 25 quid a piece then good luck to you, but not everyone has a 25 quid sized lawn and lives in a 25 quid area, and not everyone is satisfied with "six or seven mows a year". So cut the "bull shit" talk. My lawn needs a weekly mow from spring to end of summer. This thing will pay for itself real fast
@@paulhibbert just to clarify, you are saying it pays for itself in 15 mows? So that is £100/mow. And you are doing this weekly? Edit: I wasn't claiming bullshit, I'm just astounded you could be paying 400/month for your lawn. And the other guy was saying a lewn is normally mowed 6-7 months out of the year, not number of time a year.
Mowing a lawn in relaxing, and let's you examine it for dead spots, low spots, see if you need to fertilize it, fill in bits, scarify it. My point is cutting the grass is like at most 20% of lawn maintenance. I seriously doubt anyone with a quality lawn are using these. Learn to relax. Slow down. Cut the grass.
Yeah I quite agree. With a decent 14 inch wide cutting area self propelled mower which will cost about 250 quid if you look around and will last for many years, its a ten minute job doing a lawn the size of Pauls and it is as you say relaxing too.
Sure, for the 10% of people who care about such things. ;) but for myself, I spend two hours a week mowing the lawn, and it's an obnoxious chore. - "Mowing a lawn in relaxing" - for many, its really not. - "and let's you examine it for dead spots" - don't care. - "low spots" - dont care. - "see if you need to fertilize it" - in 20 years I have never, and will never , fertilize my lawn. - "fill in bits" - dont care - "scarify it" - dont know what that means - "My point is cutting the grass is like at most 20% of lawn maintenance". - for me it's 100% - "I seriously doubt anyone with a quality lawn are using these". - my lawn looks fine, its green. ;) - "Learn to relax" - there is nothing relaxing about it. - "Slow down". - but then it would take even longer? That's no good. - "Cut the grass" - ok, going out now, I'll be back in two hours. :) I do actually like my yard and lawn! :) (half an acre in suburban North-East USA), my wife and I have converted half the grass in to gardens, so less to mow, which is great. There is a slow movement in the works to decrease the amount of turf grass and replace it with "lower maintenance " alternatives, I hope it continues to catch on. Sometimes I do enjoy mowing, but not when it's 90F/33C, full sun, and 90% humidity. (Which it will be today)
You're telling me to learn to relax by telling me I should do chores instead of automating them 🤔 "Mowing the lawn is relaxing"?... not as relaxing as lying in the sun drinking a beer watching a robot do it. If mowing is only 20% of what you seem to be describing as a GIGANTIC pain in the ass, then I'd rather only have to do the remaining 80%. Your maths is dubious at best too considering filling fertilising and scarifying is a yearly task whereas the mowing is a weekly pain in the butt and exponentially more painful the bigger the lawn.
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are they going to address the fact it doesn't run the no-go zone when it's looking for its base? That actually seems like it would be extremely easy to implement...
@knifeyonline I hope so, they are working on a firmware update off the back of my obstacle tests
Hold on, this does routines? "Intruder detected, activating murder robot!" 😂
Lol could you imagine a trespasser in the back yard getting that automated announcement right before the lawnmower activates and starts running toward the intruder? Hilarious.
@@Yama_1291 Mr Socky got a new vehicle lol
The thought of Mr socky riding on the back of this screaming "get back here you bastards" is terrifying
Of course it does! However, please be advised that even if you do decide to get the optional "Sweeper" it will not take out all body parts automatically - you will need the future "Butcher" option for that.
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Waking up on a Saturday morning to a tech video full of innuendos! Winning!
Seeing Mr Hibbert in those denim shorts - JACKPOT!
Need to cut them shorter for my OF 🤣
I have had a number of different robo mowers. The best one I think is the WORKS landroid cut to edge version. This one does do the edge strimming. I have it on automatic after I tell it the square meters of the garden. It then comes out when it wants during a set time frame. It also skips when it is raining. It’s the best one I have had. Strimming is not perfect but very good.
It's 10 o'clock on a Saturday, regular crowd shuffles in...
There's a bald man chatting at me, who's in love with his echo dot thing.
Parklife!
Loving this and imagining Billy Joel singing it. Well done Dan
Got my first robot lawnmower today. Currently watching it mow the lawn in awe. Nothing like the quality of this one as only a tenth of the price. But I have seen the peak of human evolution.
Yes, I think our species peaked when we invented the robot mower 😂
Contact sensor on your back door. Made me chuckle.
I have a Flymo lawnmower and have had it for 3 years. Collecting the clipping is totally unnecessary if you're running it daily as advised, I've never had to worry about thatch etc
The thing I would want in any future upgrade is
a) good navigation that didn't need me to have a wire buried
b) edge trimming, as that's still a pain
Yeah, I wish the robots could strim!
So glad to see an update on your kid!
Great video as always man!
Love that you don't need a perimeter wire. The cutting blades look extremely extremely small.
It's superbly quiet and does a great job. Some have commented that the lawn doesn't look much shorter, but I could just lower the ride height. The replacement blade packs are only about 30 quid too which I didn't realise until my father in law said it yesterday
I think you get the replacements from Gillette.
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OK, so, you have gifted a colony of ants with an armoured vehicle equipped with spinning blades, the ant equivalent of the Death Star. I for one welcome our new ant overlords 🙃
This is my favourite comment 🤣👍
Yes it is more expensive, but that is what you pay for extra features. Want more from it then pay more for the better fully featured one. Kudos to them for cutting out the none essentials yet still giving the great features. My landroid has been trying to dig through to Australia where it does a turn and now I need bricks buried so that it can make it's way around the perimeter. The Mamotion Yuka would be a huge improvement for me if I could find the money!
It's a considered purchase for sure, even at half the price of the luba2. Love it though, looking forward to an update from my in laws as I've given it to them and just gave them the collector/sweeper add on yesterday
You absolutely don't need to collect the grass with a robot mower. They come out often to trim so leave tiny cuttings.
I've had a robot mower for about 8 years, if you run a scarifier, nothing comes out.
Just get the robot going most days and you're good
My father in law actually pointed out to me yesterday that the collector is more about getting the leaves through autumn and now I wish I hadn't let him have it 🤣
There is a benefit to having the lawn mowing pattern changed up. It’s kind of like when you brush your hair and you… anyhow…have a great day!
🤣 in all seriousness you can set it to alternate it's pattern!
Should really be able to add a jpg to show it what pattern to mow 🤔
Happy Hibbertday 😁
Right back atcha dude!
Ha ha. I genuinely get excited for 10am Saturday morning too... 😂
On a serious note, I’ve seen other reviews of expensive & cheaper robomowers, but they all cannot be trusted 100% not to go over something like a sleeping pets tail or a child’s small toy etc.
Excellent video Paul as usual!
Yup, I would definitely automate a shut off if the back door is opened once my kid is toddling about
I reckon ‘Alexa, trim my bush’ will soon be a thing. Probably part of the premium package that’s coming. 😳
If you going to risk your premium package with an AI trimmer you’re braver than I! 😂
You guys have hurt my imagination
🤭 But imagine it though... Oh, you have. 🪒 🤸 😝
@@davideyres955 due diligence here .. this is the response from chatGBT - It sounds like you might need some advice on trimming your bushes or hedges. Could you provide a bit more detail on what kind of bushes you have and what you're looking to achieve with the trimming? For instance, are you shaping them, maintaining their health, or addressing overgrowth?
Congratulations on the kid and welcome to Fatherhood
Thanks dude! 😁
The robot mower is his kid?
@@jkeltonga 🤣 my favourite kid!
I'm watching robot mowers closely. If I were buying one today, I might save up funds and buy the more expensive model. I am glad to see different versions with options. Who knows, maybe by the time I am actually ready, they will have a model between the two that has "just the right features"?
After using this for a bit I would definitely get this one. More visible stripes would be nice, but it isn't missing much other than that!
So Paul, the different pattern choices are not so much to leva a "pattern " in the lawn, but I am sure it would leave something for the first couple days after the mow. The reason you would want choices is you do not want to always use the exact same path when you mow because it is not good for the grass and if you change it up you are less likely to leave ruts in your yard. That is my understanding.
Nice one dude, you can actually schedule it to do alternating stripes, so that makes sense. You've actually just convinced me to turn that on!
"Yuko not Yoko": Well, I like the sound of it better.
"Don't have time for [mowing the lawn] since my kid was born": Consider this the new normal... maybe in another 20 years or so, you'll find some free time again.
Mapping tech: I agree. This is the way to go. I think lawns that are made up of nice rectangular bits are the oddity, not the norm and placing wires takes at least as long as mapping and requires maintenance. Is there a way to update the map?
"Won't mow while it's raining?" Will it mow when the grass is still wet? (You could probably add a moisture sensor and use an Alexa routine.)
I often say that I appreciate the "What's wrong with it" section. I'd like to add that I also appreciate the bits where you took to time to explain that this one is half the price of the other one, so you should expect some compromises.
Good review. I'd be seriously looking at this if my lawn wasn't the size of a postage stamp. (I'm lazy, but not quite that lazy.) The lawn is irregular (It looks like a congressional district after the gerrymanders have gotten done with it.) so the mapping feature would be a great plus. I'd thoroughly enjoy watching it run about (for the 15 or 20 seconds it would take) on these steamy summer days when the temperature exceeds safe sauna limits. (At least I don't have to pay for the "sweat lodge experience.")
Hey Russell, thanks as always for being here dude! Yes you can update the map, and you can also set it to not mow on Rainy days! 😁it uses the weather report and sensors apparently, though I've seen it leave it's base station a few times on wet days and then turn around and go back due to the wet grass
The screw part was my favorite. Laughing my a$$ off!
Thanks Paul, great honest reviews as usual. You omitted a link to your lawn slippers though, I've been on the lookout for these for a while now, hope to see a review shortly 😉😂
I do not recommend them, they collected more grass than any robot ever could! 😂
Thanks Paul. Happy Saturday.
Happy Saturday Ron!
Apples! You missed an opportunity to mow / mush fallen apples in a sugar-in-the-mop kinda way!
🤣 that does sound like something I'd do!
My wife said “need more outtakes” in her best Jeff Bezos voice she could muster.
I'm waiting for the one that does the striming as well. The I'll want one that weeds the flower beds.
Dude! You have a kid! How come your garden lawn devoid of any plastic tat that takes just as long to clear as it does to do the actual mowing!? 😁
Anyway, congrats again on having a baby. I hope both him and mum are doing OK and you're all grabbing some sleep when you can. 🙂
Thanks
Thanks so much dude!
Paul, enlightening and entertaining as always. Wait, the Yuka is like $2,150 pounds so 15 mows is like $145 a mow! I think the person is overcharging you for a 20 minute mow with a regular mower. I feel like I could come from Rochester, NY and mow the lawn cheaper than that... You were being overcharged or you should go into groundskeeping!
I think green paint would look nicer in the long run, or camouflage even better add a bit of brown for mud to it. . BUT white 🤣 you know in 3 mows its going to be filthy. 👍👍
The one I reviewed a month or so ago actually still looks reasonably clean bizarrely, especially considering I strummed around it and caked it in grass 🤣
Having an artificial grass lawn, I was still thinking, this will be cool to have, but I really can't defend buying this one
I think it has a sweep mode. It shows it picking up leaves
You totally need one.
what is the main differences between yuka and luba? Which one is better?
Paul, I was wondering what do you when your done testing something out and don’t want to keep it. For example ,you said now you have two of these badass mowers. If I paid for shipping can I have one. And also your videos are awesome and love your jokes.
I too love your videos and your jokes, you are also so handsome and smart. If I come and cut your grass, can I have the other one?
A lot of it goes into cupboards until I can find a use for it, alas this robot went to my mother in law, after she said she loves my jokes AND that I am the sexiest man alive 😉
Very nice mower, Paul. You do realise the manufacurer will sell the data coming from the mower like the map of your garden it creates and maybe even the data the camera gathers. 😉 Louis Rossman made a video about a vacume cleaner that maps the rooms of a house and sent the data to the manufacturer, including camera data. It's in their terms.
I suppose my first question is why? What will the Chinese do with a map and photos of my living room? But more to the point what would they do with a map of my garden that is already freely available on Google maps 🤣 I think Louis is grabbing those hits with melodrama personally
@@paulhibbert Fair question. selling al kinds of data is big bussiness, so there's always a buyer. It was in the terms of a robot vacuum cleaner, saying they collect the house map data and camera data. But why they do that the always fail to tell their customers.
Awesome video! You must have got some sleep!
The ecovacs goat is still less than a grand. It doesn't have the sweeper but I've had no issues with it and you can set a guard routine where it will patrol your garden
Oh no way! I didn't know ecovacs made a mower! Might have to check it out!
Oh no way! I didn't know ecovacs made a mower! Might have to check it out!
Have you checked out the home assistant integration I'm working on?
😳 no! I need that!!
I too am rocking the vest or whatever the kids call them now. AC has been all nearly all week too. Amazon Essentials ones are really nice and soft #notashill
My vests are soooo cheap 😆
It looks like Big Trak with blades but costs a stupid amount more. Wanted one but then realised I'd replaced the lawn with a patio
Just use it to trim your patio 🤷♂️
Alexa, send out the bee murder machine! ;)
Jorts with turnups? Was this video made in the 90's Paul 😁
Great video as always. Any nice integration with Home Assistant ? Thanks
Nothing direct, you'd have to just get home assistant to start an Alexa routine 😁
What about Home Assistant support?
It would be amazing if DJI made a robot lawnmower.. obstacle avoidance is their specialty
They need to make a drone that can do the strimming. Now THAT is something I would immediately buy!
@@paulhibbert 😂
except they removed it to save money on my Mini 3 😆 but hey, life on the edge
Feel like sleep deprived baby brain has taken full effect mate! Ya mentioned the grass collection box, but never reviewed it AND you forgot to thank one of your patreons at the end 🤣
Either way enjoyed the review. I'm still happy with my old Worx Landroid. Although the second anyone releases one that will strim, I will be clicking buy now.
I did actually say in the review it hadn't arrived in time to test it 😉
It arrived over the weekend and my in laws now have it strapped to the mower so they can update me on how well it works so that I can update the description for the video.
I definitely want a robot that can strim!! 😍
Crap! Sorry I thought it was something at the front to make stripes, not the bin that hadn't shown up yet. Whoops.
I haven’t seen you do any Govee videos in over a year, what happened?
Hey Paul , i have been watching your videos for a while and trust your opinion , i am looking for a smart light switch tat will work with alexa and have simple intigration to my minimal hoe smart systems at the moment , thanks in advance Neil
Very relieved that you didn’t sport a red shirt to beam down in. Now I can watch the rest of the vid knowing it ends well. (I don’t have a lawn, but I’ll still watch. It presses all my buttons.)
Edit: yikes, toes nearly didn’t make it back from the green planet.
Can you get skins for these? I think they’d look great dressed up as a frog, toad, turtle, stegosaurus. I need to get out more.
I was wearing red socks 🤣
Someone else said it looks a bit like voyager! It needs a voyager skin!
I’ve got half acre now had 7. Zero turn bobcat with dual bagger. 1 cut once a week I empty the two 40 lb bags each twice and 3rd empty is just bits. This would have to run every other day cutting 1/4-1/2 inch material
You would need the yuka 2000 to cover that area rather than the 1500, but if the terrain is tough you would actually more likely need a luba2
@@paulhibbert what you need is a gas mower, weed whacker, blower, edger, chain saw,fuel cans trailer, service center and do it your self lol
Good luck with that
Rockery? Strimming? Are these Hibbertisms, or some kind of lawn terms I'd not heard of before because I've lived in apartments the majority of my life?
And am I the only one disappointed that there isn't a rubber dog poo test with these like the vacuums?
🤣 it would 100% eat every turd I put in its path.
Move the base GPS away from the wall. it should have a clear view of the sky.
I moved it all the way to my inlaws house, along with the mower 😂
Yuka crashed into a car and scratched it. Then it left the working area and headed right into the next obstacle. The navigation and the avoidance safety tech with the camera does not work good enough as for now.
How much?
Harold!!!! Your not old enough to know Harold 😂😂😂😂
Oh but I am, I'm old enough to remember being glued to this exact storyline! Simpler times man
@@paulhibbert man, well can I have some of what your taking because your looking younger than you should.... Some sort of TH-cam elixir 😂😂
@Jonathannew-cp7fj TH-cam only give it to you at 100,000 subs and then swear you to secrecy 😂
@@paulhibbert you should be at the million mark by now Paul your the funniest guy out there lol forward to Saturdays because of you.... Guess it's all the Philips hue lovers unsubscribing all the time ,😂😂😂... Keep it up dude I'll try and make you viral!
Thanks man, that means a lot!
Saturday morning: watch Transport Evolved then Paul Hibbert. It's "on sale" for £1,449.00, not sure what that is in Freedom Units but it's still out of my price range. You pay £100 per mowing? Folks around my neck of the woods pay around $35-$50.
Okay, I did the math(s), it costs 1,855.66 Freedom Units. That means it would pay for itself in about 1.325 years, American years, not sure what the conversion rate is. We don't usually mow snow here in New England, you probably don't get snow in Old England.
It is a gardeners market round here, I've actually tried 3 gardeners and they're all too busy to come regular and the quote for my whole garden was £300 just for a one off
@@paulhibbert note to self, start a subscription business with a fleet of robot mowers in Paul's neighborhood
Hey paul I don't really watch your videos regularly or much but my dad used to love watching your content, doubt you will see this comment but regardless, You might remember my dad Russell LeChard he was a supporter to your channel for years and recently he passed away from colon cancer on January 3rd. Just wanted to tell you how much he loved and supported your content and he would always be so excited every time Saturday hit. Take care!
Oh man I'm so sorry to hear that and truly sorry for your loss man. I will raise a glass to him tonight. ❤️
@@paulhibbert thanks he was a massive hoarder tho and its been a mess trying to decide what to sell or throw out. Lots of computer stuff and lots of old things
Morning
Morning brother!
I've got a Flymo that uses the wire, usually 600 quid but I got it for 300 second hand from amazon with a full 2 year guarantee. It's stupid, it bounces around, it doesn't collect the grass but it does get the job done, and while I love it I'd also like to upgrade for one that doesn't need a wire as I have multiple patches of grass to cut. My problem with robot mowers is the price. Yes, it's fully featured & a brilliant bit of kit, but how can they justify the prices for these when you can get a robot vacuum cleaner for a couple of hundred quid that has all the same features? Yes of course, you'd need a more powerful motor & higher capacity battery, but how does that translate to the stupidly high price point on these mowers?
I think the price of this robot is comparable to robovac with similar capability. Most robovac I test are over a grand if they have cameras and sensors. I appreciate Mammotion. Haven't quite got the obstacle avoidance right yet, but I have faith they will do.
This is also a lot bigger than a robovac and has satellite navigation, so there's that
Obstacle avoidance would be more to stop my stubborn dog being turned into paste
I would definitely not let it near stubborn dogs!
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I don't know how you do it! Every week I am more impressed!
Is it me, or doesn't I vaguely kind of look like the front half of Voyager? Either that or I need more sleep.
Oh man, I missed the perfect opportunity to green screen it into a star fight!
@@paulhibbert Could do it as a YT short?
Whatinheck is a "rockery", ya English numpty? 😊 5:16
Seriously, thanks for all the videos - youve become one of my most trusted sources for things to put in my bespoke configuration.yaml files.
🤣 I had no idea a rockery was purely an English thing!?
Apparently - on this side of the pond, it's typically called just a "rock garden" or possibly "xeriscaping" if you add in some plants. TIL!
Older kids who have a brain ... ... hahaha .. 6 years later .. I'm still waiting. She doesn't see any massive SUVs let alone a mowing robot. 😅
Every child story I hear now makes me terrified of my near future 🤣
I thought you said this was the cheap mower!
It's less than half the price of the other one I reviewed, so yes.
@@paulhibbert Wow! Who has five grand for a plastic lawnmower! The world has truly gone mad. 😂
@@paulhibbert btw, I love your jokes and innuendoes in your videos. It’s part of the reason why I watch them.
@@SirHackaL0t. really depends how big your lawn is as to whether or not £5000 is worth paying. If you have acres of land it quickly becomes a valuable commodity
@@paulhibbert True, but even a ride on mower is only about £1k. :)
It doesnt appear to cut grass !?! I would consider the finished height as time to cut the grass down to the inch or so it needs to be ,my 30 year old hover mower does my lawn in one cut AND collects the grass .
The ride height is one from the top but I can assure you the grass was the length I wanted it to be
@@paulhibbert the trouble is pussy cats love grass that long and consider it a toilet ,not so bad now but when junior crawls about on it he will definitely find it and the germs it contains .Speaking as a grandad of 11 ofcourse LOL It looks a nice machine but they need strimmers on the side to get that long grass it misses .keep up the good work
In case I'm not being clear the ride height can be substantially lowered 👍
We dig up nature. Put the plant we want (grass) we don't like the way it looks dead, so we bring unnaturaly amounts of water to it. but then we don't like the way it looks when it's too long, so we cut it. But now we spend so much in time inside, we can't be bothered to mow manually. so now our robots do it. all so we can enjoy our yard once a month when the wife asks us to go sit on the patio with her. but NO humans don't have an impact on the planet. not at all.
This was a field before it was a garden with guess what growing in it? 😂
Whilst I agree we've had a terrible impact on the planet through our consumption of fossil fuels, the concept of damaging the planet through the localisation of grass is nonsense.
10,000 years ago the UK was a tundra covered in ice sheets. Man had nothing to do with that, nor did man have anything to do with the ground thawing and being replaced by forests and guess what other fairly dominant plant? 😉 nature apparently didn't want anything but wooly mammoths living here 10,000 years ago, should we just do what nature wants now, or what it wanted then? Should I start scattering some ice cubes about and hope nature fills in the blanks?
5000 years ago we came and cut down a lot of the forests and made settlements, grass has been prolific ever since. Are you mad at the people of today or the people of 5000 years ago? Neither one of them has damaged the planet through the cultivation of lawns. If people didn't cut the grass, we'd all be wading to market through head-high vegetation.
Do I just leave that area of land to become whatever it likes? At which point should I intervene; when it starts to get into the sewers and gutters? At what arbitrary point should I cut it if not at its most attractive height? It has to be cut some time.
I suppose it's evil that I keep cutting my wisteria to stop it from eventually destroying my garage, or maybe it was wrong to plant it in the first place? You'll note I do actually have a wild patch for the bees and other wild life.
Impact? Sure from the dictionary definition of impact, but no actual harm has been done by the previous owner's builders planting a really decent lawn for me to now enjoy the few times a year the UK actually gets some sunshine.
I've had my Yuka 1500 for a week and I still can't map a zone because it keeps going to "Positioning" and failing. I'm considering sending it back...
I had that issue at first and this might sound like a stupid question but have you definitely got the RTK plugged in to the charging station, got power the charging station AND made sure the RTK is away from any walls with a clear view of the sky? Check the lights on the RTK to see if they are green and whether they're flashing or solid, it should help you diagnose it.
@@paulhibbert - I've pretty much done all of that but I guess it won't hurt to try another experiment and see if that changes anything. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@kirkrende3935 if not then get in touch with their customer service people, it's definitely worth it
@@paulhibbert - You were right. I moved the RTK out another two meters farther away from my house than I wanted to, and I was able to map a zone and it is now mowing. I guess I will just have to live with the new placement of the RTK. Thanks for your advice.
@@kirkrende3935 oh that's awesome man! You can get a wall mount for the rtk to mount it in the wall closer to your gutters if you wanted to mount it to the house but still get the signal
Stop Harold and Marging me. Its still too soon and I still get emotional about her death. TOO SOON!
The Big Trak for grown up children..
Never grow up!
£3000 ? 😂
nano nano
You could have pulled the weeds...
You may have noticed but I created this video with a kid strapped to my chest, I am a little short on time 😂
@@paulhibbert I did, and that was amazing!
"At the rate my gardener charges for a cut of my lawn it will pay for itself in 15 mows" Are you hiding a football field off camera?
Also most of us peasants will have to compare the prices to a traditional push mower and spending our own time, but I am happy you are doing well :)
Gardeners around here are taking the piss man. I have been to three now and they're all too busy to even do my lawn. It seems to be a gardeners market right now!
Blimey, Paul has his guns out. Not suitable for female audiences today. Can't have my wife swooning over TH-cam vids.
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Wait, you don' have a real transporter in your room? So disappointed.
I do, that end segment was just to put the government off the scent!
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9:33 five mows it doesn't even look like the grass is cut. 10:12 a bit of dew on the ground and that thing isn't going to be emptying on its own like that.
I don't know what video you watched but that was a perfectly even lawn 🤷♂️
As for the dew, you just don't run it wet if you don't want to. Feels like you're taking really unnecessary pot shots at it.
Why don't you include the dog turd test? Like you do for the robot vacuum cleaners. Surly its even more relevant in the garden.
£1500 divided by 15 = £100.....YOU PAY SOMEONE £100 TO MOW YOUR LAWN?????
You only need it cut six or seven months a year. It stops growing from late October till about Feb. He is paying some guy like 200 quid.
He said it pays for itself in 15 mows so doesn't matter how many months per year it is being cut.
I have a decent size lawn and pay £25 so it would be more like 60 mows to pay for itself or around 4 years
Yeah it's bullshit mate, it's also 1500m2 so surely you'd compare it to the 1000m2 luba which is is £2150 not the 3000m2 at £2550.. Either way they're ridiculously over priced for what they are.
This thread is super irritating 🤣 I tried 3 gardeners, zero of them are taking on regular work and the quote I got for my garden was 300 quid to get it "tidied up a bit". If you guys have found someone that will come weekly at 25 quid a piece then good luck to you, but not everyone has a 25 quid sized lawn and lives in a 25 quid area, and not everyone is satisfied with "six or seven mows a year". So cut the "bull shit" talk. My lawn needs a weekly mow from spring to end of summer. This thing will pay for itself real fast
@@paulhibbert just to clarify, you are saying it pays for itself in 15 mows? So that is £100/mow. And you are doing this weekly?
Edit: I wasn't claiming bullshit, I'm just astounded you could be paying 400/month for your lawn. And the other guy was saying a lewn is normally mowed 6-7 months out of the year, not number of time a year.
Mowing a lawn in relaxing, and let's you examine it for dead spots, low spots, see if you need to fertilize it, fill in bits, scarify it. My point is cutting the grass is like at most 20% of lawn maintenance. I seriously doubt anyone with a quality lawn are using these. Learn to relax. Slow down. Cut the grass.
Yeah I quite agree. With a decent 14 inch wide cutting area self propelled mower which will cost about 250 quid if you look around and will last for many years, its a ten minute job doing a lawn the size of Pauls and it is as you say relaxing too.
Sure, for the 10% of people who care about such things. ;) but for myself, I spend two hours a week mowing the lawn, and it's an obnoxious chore.
- "Mowing a lawn in relaxing" - for many, its really not.
- "and let's you examine it for dead spots" - don't care.
- "low spots" - dont care.
- "see if you need to fertilize it" - in 20 years I have never, and will never , fertilize my lawn.
- "fill in bits" - dont care
- "scarify it" - dont know what that means
- "My point is cutting the grass is like at most 20% of lawn maintenance". - for me it's 100%
- "I seriously doubt anyone with a quality lawn are using these". - my lawn looks fine, its green. ;)
- "Learn to relax" - there is nothing relaxing about it.
- "Slow down". - but then it would take even longer? That's no good.
- "Cut the grass" - ok, going out now, I'll be back in two hours. :)
I do actually like my yard and lawn! :) (half an acre in suburban North-East USA), my wife and I have converted half the grass in to gardens, so less to mow, which is great. There is a slow movement in the works to decrease the amount of turf grass and replace it with "lower maintenance " alternatives, I hope it continues to catch on. Sometimes I do enjoy mowing, but not when it's 90F/33C, full sun, and 90% humidity. (Which it will be today)
You're telling me to learn to relax by telling me I should do chores instead of automating them 🤔 "Mowing the lawn is relaxing"?... not as relaxing as lying in the sun drinking a beer watching a robot do it.
If mowing is only 20% of what you seem to be describing as a GIGANTIC pain in the ass, then I'd rather only have to do the remaining 80%. Your maths is dubious at best too considering filling fertilising and scarifying is a yearly task whereas the mowing is a weekly pain in the butt and exponentially more painful the bigger the lawn.
Personally I find hiking relaxing and not doing monotonous chores. So I'd rather go hiking while a robot vacuums my house for me.
Do you use paper maps by any chance ? 😉 next you'll be telling us to get the broom out
How much 😮😂😂
Who was cutting your grass? Alan Titchmarsh!
It's this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Oh man did I ever want one of those as a kid!!