Heaps cheaper than the last deal posted on ozbargain which were both over 1k.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/886388
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/898800
Bunnings and other sites still have this for much more than the official store
Worx 20V Landroid Robot Mower Starter Kits 700m² WR149E $699 Delivered @ Worx Australia
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You won't find a vision one anywhere near this price.
Guide wire is fine, just do it properly.
Whipper sniper around the perimeter down to nothing then place the wire.
For my first 18 months of ownership I agree, guide wires are fine… until they break and you spend a month finding where it’s open. Then you find the break and you fix it only to find 2 months later it happens again. Then all your wire seems to be dying all over because the coating is crap and there’s corrosion everywhere. So no, guide wires aren’t fine.
Those ones even on sale are more than twice the price of this model
Agree completely. My time is worth infinitely more than the difference in cost for one that does not need those guidewires.
I got one of the Mammotion Yuka mini 500's for $1249 on launch and it has been amazing.
I have had my eye on them but alas still $1299. HAs yours had any troubles? How long have you had? Thanks.
Just use the email signup thingo to get another $50 off will bring it down to $1249.
Ordered January and received mid April, so have only had for about 6 months. It has been great. Took maybe an hour to run it around the perimeter of the 4 zones I had to setup but it has been running great ever since. It seems to have an odd issue with detecting some long weeds as an obstacle and decides to go around them, but I just use the remote control function at the end to manually do the patches it missed. It only happens in my smallest zone though for some reason, not sure why - but it's not a major drama.
Every now and then it will track over a dog poo, but I find just leaving it for the next couple days and it just flakes off with some mild screwdriver prodding.
Sometimes it loses satellite connection and stops but resumes automatically once connection re-establishes.
The Antenna default setup is connected to the base station that the unit charges from by about a 2 metre cable. They also include an extra power brick so you can setup the antenna separate to the base station if needed. Im looking at mounting the antenna off my roof somehow for better coverage eventually, just havent figured out how to run the power to it yet.
Nothing else I can really mention.
Glad I have it, I do not miss sweating my ass off in the sun for hours and then being buggered for the rest of the arvo anymore.@Arcticfox: Thanks man. Great review. I am very very close to getting one. I am very particular about my lawn though. Currently it has less than 1% weeds and looks dark green with perfect cut. :)
I got landroid vision last year. I haven't mowed manually since. Happy days.
does it run over and chop up soft dog turds?
I'll take 10 if it runs over dog owners who leave dog turds
Then the dog owner will take the bot home
Landroid + dog poo = one big mess :)
You need to pickup anyway, regardless if landroid or not.
I don't and it's fine.
I have it set to 5 on cut length.
It is possible to teach dogs to poop in one place
Same price at Harvey Norman and Amazon. Not really a deal imo, inflated RRP.
different model sold at harvey
Yep but the 140E the larger one has a lower RRP though. It was sold at $849 before, this was a drop from over 1k. Not sure if it has better features or not but seems like more value on the surface
@bargain_knight: yeah me neither, maybe it's a later release? Can't seem to find good info on differences between the two online
Something else to note is that harvey actually charges a $25 delivery fee, but the official site has it free
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WR140E
Screen: Features a full LCD screen for direct programming of zones and timing on the machine itself.
Charging: Includes a standard charger.
Body: The standard body design without a waterproof rating.
Features: Does not have the floating deck design found on the
WR149E.
Screen: Primarily controlled via the app, though some versions may have an LCD.
Charging: Has a faster charging system, especially the "Plus" version which uses a 3Amp power supply and charges 50% faster than the standard
Body: Features a waterproof body and a floating deck design.
Features: Capable of mowing up to (700m^{2}).
Accessories: Often comes with a more complete kit, including (150) meters of perimeter wire, 4.0Ah battery, and distance rulers.Every second sentence is wrong lol
Use your brain
This thing was the best money I've spent
Love watching neighbours sweat it out on 40 degree days only to have the grass bounce back to the same height by the next weekend.
This thing seems to also stop weeds as it cuts then down faster than they can pop daily.
The robot itself looks smaller than my mower catcher. How it work? For a lawn that size as in the ads, it will need to run days and nights. No auto empty by the look. How about power consumption?
All good questions.
1 - Robot mowers cut the grass more regularly, which means the cuttings are finer. The cuttings/mulch are small enough that they don't need to be 'caught/picked up'.
2 - Mine runs when I tell it to run, but you can certainly schedule them - I have a Moebot S10 - Similar principle.
3 - It returns to the dock to recharge when required.IMO, keeps the grass at a respectable length via regular mowing, not meant for the once-a-month hard Mow of long grass.
The spinning 'Blades' are best kept clean/sharp, and I make sure they are capable of spinning freely, every other week.As mentioned above, the next (current?) Generation Robot Mowers don't need a ground wire/loop around your grass and navigate via GPS location.
Mine needs a wire, and it's become PITA… Had it for a few years, and the wire will need to be removed and installed again soon, I fear.It takes mm off daily, there's nothing to catch and feeds your lawn. You won't get grass bits flying around.
I have a lot of grass on a 1200m2 property. It gets through it easily. Remember this thing works for hours happily and is quiet.
It mows constantly so to start things off have the lawn at a respectable height so it can just "maintain" that level for you. It'll work for hours I suppose, will have to see when mine gets here later
Somehow not going to give me the same satisfaction as having spent 2 hrs breaking a sweat with my 20 yr old Made in Australia Honda 21inch HRU215D Buffalo self propelled, then sucking on a coldie as the sun goes down.
Sometimes I sit with a coldie watching my little robot do what it does…
Just as satisfying I feel..
And no Sweat !
I assume you still need to whipper snip? Especially if your yard is filled with kids equipment like slides and play gyms
Correct - Until recently, we had a funky monkey in the middle of the yard, and it was great at navigating around it, but I still got out the Wippa Snippa to do the edges and the poles.
Gee at this price I'd consider it even for tiny yards if the choice is between this and a 36V mower kit
definitely worth a try, compared to push mowers you don't actually have to do the work and it's not even that much more. Different story to those with huge lawns over one acre and need a ride on though
So with a 4mx4m front yard and 10mx2m backyard, it's simply a case of putting down some pegs and letting it run at the front, then moving it to the backyard and doing the same?
I was thinking of $1500 for one of the Mammotion Minis or one of the RobotMyLife models, but this is such a massive price difference.
Dumb question, but functionally, will it be just as good at cutting as the newer GPS models? Or have they also stepped up in terms of getting closer to edge/depth of cut etc ?
I wonder this as well- back yard, front yard and nature strip- how do people manage the different zones? if I just left it running out the back, I'd still need to keep my other mower to do the rest.
Guide wired ones generally don't handle separate zones too well - the wire has to be in a continuous loop around all zones (hard if there is a driveway or footpath between the yard and nature strip, and as the robot needs to detect the wires signal it may not be possible to pass it under concrete and have it still detected with the robot driving over the concrete), and the only way to really control what zone it does when is by telling it how far along the return wire it should travel before it starts mowing. One issue I had with my gardena wired one was when it went into a zone that had a smallish entry (2-3x the width of the robot) it could get in there occasionally, but wouldn't find it's way back out - gps one does that fine as you can set the path between zones. Was so annoying I just moved the wire so it wouldn't go in that zone, and mowed that manually.
When I had a guide wired one I had the wire between front and back yards, but just manually moved it between yards. If you have to pass the wire under a concrete footpath/driveway etc you may need to manually move it to the other side to mow it. No such issues with a GPS based one though.
The wire is meant to be permanent. Eventually grass grows and is forever in the ground.
You might need a second base station or to run the wire across both yards.
Imo this is better that the vision units. It's blind and quiet which means you can run it at night and it'll also be more consistent.
Also less likely to get stolen.
Meant to be, but it does sometimes break and need digging up to patch. 2nd base station may not be possible, check with the manufacturer if it is - the base station and robot need to have a loop signal synced between them so the robot knows the signal to watch out for, a 2nd base station may have a different loop signal, but the manufacturer may have a way to have the 2nd base station match the signal of the first.
GPS ones can run at night too, and are just as quiet. Mine has a camera to avoid obstacles (doesn't use it for nav though) and has a LED headlight for when it runs at night - I run it at night frequently without issues.
GPS ones are potentially better theft wise as you can get them with 4G, and it will report back where it is if it gets stolen. Heard of someone who had his GPS one stolen, but once the person who pinched it realised it had GPS they returned it and claimed they thought it was out for hard rubbish collection. Non-GPS ones are likely to just be binned if stolen, once the thief realises they can't use it without the dock/wire/charger etc, and they have a pin required to unlock them.
Base in rear yard, front separated by house (no direct mower access). Just run wire down fence line and create a second loop. Lift and drop in front yard when needed. Can't get home when runs out of battery but lift and drop in back yard when done. Think two separated squares connected by a line.
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The guide wire needs to be in a single continuous loop, so even if you manually move the mower between yards, there needs to be a way for the wire to go between the two yards. If you can't do this you would need one of the GPS or vision type models.
Cutting wise the GPS ones are smarter, think of the worx like a 1st gen robot vac where it just bumps from guide wire to guide wire aimlessly, hoping that with enough passes it will cover your whole yard - fine if it's running every day or two, but if you go too long between runs you'll notice the uneven mow until you've run it a few times to clear it up. GPS ones are like modern robo vacs where it goes in rows with a slight overlap to ensure it gets everything in 1 pass, you can also usually choose different mowing types, mammotion have a standard zigzag pass but also have a chess board pass where it will go north-south on pass 1 then east-west on pass 2 to ensure it gets everything.
Other benefit of the newer ones is the connectivity - the worx says it's bluetooth only, so if it's like my previous gardena guide wired one you can only see anything about the mower when you're within a few meters of it, and won't get any warnings that it's stuck, finished, can't find the charger or whatever. Newer ones are wifi and can have 4G too so you will get notifications wherever you are, and can potentially control it remotely too (so may be able to get it unstuck, or drive it back to the charger manually if it thinks its path is blocked etc). I went from a guide wire one to a yuka mini and it was well worth it. Guide wired one worked ok for what it was, but the yuka mini actually works well.
why haven't Xiaomi made one yet?
Lawns not so much of a problem for the average Chinese person.
yes of course- lots of apartment living
False, they do make them
That's cool, nice to know. I don't think my statement was wrong per se though.
There's the Moebot but this is much better.
https://dreame.com.au/products/dreame-robotic-mower-a1?srslt…
They do via the Dreame brand they use for vacs
If I was going to get a robot mower (no need with teenagers) this one. Anything needing a guide wire, no.
Roborock which is one of Xiaomi's partners are testing one for release soon, https://www.techradar.com/home/smart-home/ive-just-seen-robo…
FALSE! They came up with this year. Too busy with making cars I suppose.
Curious… If you have garden edging so the robot cant escape the grassed area, do you still need the wire? My neighbour has something like this (no idea the brand or model) and it looks a bit random how it mows with the end result looking a bit like a blind child has mowed the lawn (i see it from an elevated position, so more pronouced). At ground level it probably doesnt look too bad, but yeah its a deal breaker for me. Does this particular one mow in proper lines like a house robo vac?
No. It bounces around like a DVD player screen saver.
It looks better than going up and down and creating lines, it blends the grass so it always looks natural.
OK. I dont know what is different about my neighbours setup but it definitely does not look better. Maybe it's more to do with whatever their grass/blend of grass is, or the fact i view our backyards from elevation. Or maybe their robot is just retarded. Either way, my mowed buffalo always looks a million times better than their robo lawn. Interested in getting a robo at some point though once i find one i like.
Guide wire robo mowers always require the wire, and GPS, vision or other wire-free ones don't need a hard barrier to do their thing. If your neighbours one bounces around randomly it will be a guide wire one. The idea is similar to early robo vacs - enough passes should get everything - but from experience, it will still look uneven unless you run it very frequently (daily would be ideal). You would need a GPS or other wire free one to have it mow in lines like a current gen robo vac.
Can it handle slope?
What if you want the robot to mow the front lawn and nature strips? Do you run guide wires in two zones and manually move the robot to the second zone to mow?
Bunnings has the wr140e (1000m2 version) with the flip up garage accessory for $699:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/worx-landroid-1000m2-robot-lawn-…
I ordered it to replace my mower, but having doubts if I should spend more to get one without boundary wires.
The flip up garage is $169 of purchased separate.
If you can afford/justify the difference, definitely get one without boundary wires. I went from a gardena boundary wire one to a yuka mini GPS based one and it's similar to the difference between a 1st gen dumb robo vac (but with more setup!) and a later gen lidar based one that actually works well.
I have this, it's great.
Take your time with the wire and don't go to close to the edges thinking it will save some time, it won't 😂
Just use pegs and don't worry about burying the wire. Also if you have a break use proper connectors and decent replacement wire so you only have to do the job once.
You can get cheap line testers from aliexpress to find breaks.
Bur if you have the funds get this instead
https://amzn.asia/d/aEZCPWqI buried my wire thinking it would lead to less breaks, still got breaks. Also meant when I had to move the wire slightly it was more work - would either be too far away from the edge so it wasn't mowing there properly, or too close (especially on a slope) so sometimes it would approach the boundary wire differently and run off the slope - not a big slope, just enough to put it outside the boundary wire so need manual assistance. Mine was a gardena not a worx, but similar setup.
100% echo getting the yuka mini if you have the funds.I burried it too thinking it would help with trimming the edges, but as you said it's a pain to adjust, digging around with a screwdriver to find the cable location 😂
Beware though Yukka mini has had major paid youtube marketing blitz. It's working….
These are great however I would recommend pay more and get one that doesn't need you to install a guide wire, more trouble than its worth.