A Year-Round Robot Mower Lawn Care Calendar
For my first year with a robot mower I basically set it and forgot it, and by August the lawn told on…
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The Robot Mower Troubleshooting Checklist
After a few seasons of owning these machines, I stopped troubleshooting by instinct and started working from a list taped inside the…
The Annual Robot Mower Service Checklist
Once a year, I clear a bench, pour a coffee, and give my mower the kind of going-over a mechanic gives a…
The Robot Mower Setup Checklist for Day One
The day your robot mower arrives is exciting and a little daunting. There is a spool of wire, a bag of pegs,…
The Complete Robot Mower Buying Checklist
Most buying regret with these machines traces back to something skipped, not something unknowable. The steep back slope nobody measured. The narrow…
RTK GPS Robot Mowers Explained Simply
The phrase RTK GPS gets thrown around like everyone already knows what it means. Most people do not, and that is fine.…
How Smart Robot Mowers Adapt to Weather
Weather is the one thing a robot mower cannot control, so the good ones learn to work around it. The first summer…
How to Find and Fix a Broken Boundary Wire
The mower would not leave the dock, and the app flashed a loop error. My first thought was dread, because a boundary…
Robot Mowing a Shady or Patchy Lawn
Half of my back garden sits under two big oaks, and for years that shady strip was the part I dreaded mowing:…
Spring Startup: Waking a Robot Mower After Winter
There is a particular smell to the first warm Saturday of spring, cut grass and damp soil, and for the last few…