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It is passed only through the end of my first summer cut the grass watching Mon in our zone 6 Pennsylvania farm. It is a pleasure not to do the work yourself when Mo missing a place I do not care because I do not mowing. Yippie.
Yes, it takes time and perserverence to lay the wire. I make my own stakes of wire coat hanger and I use 14-gauge wire from Home Depot, because the supplies are from this maker just too high priced. The blades will probably be changed (too manyStones were taken in that year) and the battery still seems after a summer mowing every week 03:01 acre well.
obstructed I have learned, Mo use only in dry weather – Comments made by other reviewers are true, he makes a mess in the mud and the deck, in fact, with wet grass. But that was my big old gas-powered Toro that I did not miss.
You'll like this mower if you are opposed to feeding and coddling lawn. MY "yard" was mainly weeds and grass in May last year. Moset to mow high – 3 "- and I can already see the improvements. The higher cut grass weeds displace it, with the result that there is more grass. The robot does a good job that will cost over a period of three years less I would have paid for the lawn service, and the edges are really worried whether the cleanest in the city?
I love this thing.
Friendly Robotics #RL850 RoboMower 21-Inch Automatic Cordless Electric Lawn Mower Feature
- Automatic lawnmower designed to mow entirely by itself
- Efficiently and safely mows lawn, while you relax
- Cuts up to 10,800 square feet on a single 24-hour charge
- Onboard sensor and bumper avoids obstacles; built-in child safety lock; powerful mulcher
- This item is not for sale in Catalina Island
Friendly Robotics #RL850 RoboMower 21-Inch Automatic Cordless Electric Lawn Mower Overview
Imagine relaxing on your porch with your family instead of mowing the lawn. With the innovative Friendly Robotics Robomow RL850, you can turn your dreams into an eco-friendly, wallet-friendly reality. This fully automatic lawnmower cuts grass all by itself, so you can get a vacation from mowing–forever! Just drive the Robomow to the edge of your yard and press ‘Go’ for a beautifully manicured lawn.
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 Robomow does all the work so you don’t have to. |
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Automatic Lawnmower Does All the Work for You
The Robomow RL850 is an innovative lawn mower that works automatically, so you won’t have to spend another weekend pushing your old gas guzzler around the yard. It mows on its own within a boundary that you outline with a thin wire (included). Once you handle the initial wire setup, this mower does all the work for you–simply press ‘Go’, sit back, relax, and mow!
Powered by exclusive drop-and-go 24-volt batteries, the heavy-duty Robomow RL850 is an eco-friendly 53-centimeter, 21-inch mower/mulching system. With its three blades spinning at 5,800 RPM–double the speed of a typical gas mower–the Robomow RL850 travels across your lawn in a crisscross pattern, covering up to 10,800 square feet on a single charge. Easy to set, the Robomow RL850 delivers a 1.75- to 3.25-inch cut with high-cut blades and a 1.0-2.5-inch cut with low-cut blades.
Eco-Friendly, Wallet-Friendly Choice
Unlike conventional lawn mowers that pollute as much as 40 late-model cars in just one hour of use, Robomow RL850 offers a way to keep your lawn looking great without sacrificing the environment.
The Robomow RL850 doesn’t simply cut your grass–it repurposes the clippings through a patented process called grasscycling. The mower cuts grass into fine clippings and disperses the cuttings over the ground. These clippings quickly decompose and release valuable nutrients and water into the soil, resulting in a better-looking lawn. Grasscycling also leads to a deeper, healthier root system that increases your lawn’s resistance to disease, drought, and insects, and it reduces the amount of water your lawn needs by as much as 85%.
And because the eco-friendly Robomow RL850 doesn’t require gas, oil, tune-ups, or spark plugs, it will save you money.
Multiple Features for Safe, Quiet Operation
In addition to its environmental benefits, the Robomow RL850 offers several user-friendly, neighbor-friendly features. First, a user-controlled theft protection system guards the mower from unauthorized use, and a child lock provides peace of mind.
An on-board sensor and bumpers identify obstructions like trees, rocks and obstacles, and truly quiet operation means you can mow your lawn at any hour without disturbing your neighbors.
Dimensions and Warranty Information
The Robomow RL850 is WEEE and RoHS compliant, measures 26.0 x 12.5 x 35.0 (WxHxD), weighs 50 pounds (without battery), and is backed by a two-year warranty.
What’s in the Box
Robomow RL850; 500-foot perimeter wire and 200 plastic pegs; sealed batteries and charge pack; 2007 Generation software; instruction manual.
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Customer Reviews
RL1000 Unreliable – J. Blakely –
Many of these posts seem to be from previous buyers. I have a RL1000 for two years and now I had thought people could benefit from an experienced owner.
In two years I have had to replace the power supply 3 times and the cradle board 3 times. Both components are approximately $ 100 when you are done with shipping and even the way you need to budget about $ 300 per year in maintenance costs. This is not including the 2 sets of blades, I also bought. (By the way, do not disturbwith the “deep cut” blades, they don’t mulch any better than the regular blades.)
None of the components on this system were designed with durability in mind. I had 1 of the docking station boards fail after 2 (count ‘em 2) days. The service for these units is terrible, simply terrible.
Finally, last week, one of the drive wheels failed and it just kept driving around in a circle. I’m not going to spend any more money on it, so I bought a lawn tractor.
Even when things are not breaking down, its operation is problematic at best. It is not something you can let run unattended. The first season the unit kept leaving the perimeter area. Had to call 3 times before anyone could tell me how to correct that issue (sensor needed adjustment). The unit would also get stuck a lot. More often than not, I would have to go out and move it away from an area that is was bogged down in.
I can’t recommend this product to anyone. Which is really a pity, because if it works, they kept the grass looks very good.
25 hours of use and dying (battery?) – Discriminating shopper – Kansas
I had basement work done that involved digging up my entire yard, so I had no yard until reseeding in the fall. Anticipating that mowing would begin that fall, I bought the RL 850 Robomower in June. Seeding took place in September, and I eagerly began to try out my new mowing toy in October. I’ll describe the entire process I went through to date:
Laying the perimeter wire was a major project, since I have a large size yard with several trees, a shed, and a rock garden island. I think that even if I would not be sufficient simply laid out the wire around a rectangular box of a shipyard, which provided pins and wires. I eventually ended up ordering an extra roll of wire and four bags of herring to get my chest, back, and sides of the yard fixed. want (you will more. Trust me. See the bottom of this review for more information …) I finally bought a three-duty edger to kill this job, without having to do my knees and back. At that time it lasted for three weeks of eveningsget everything in place and securely tied down, with debris in the fill in Mount wheels.
Once all the cable was available, we observed the mower eager not his thing. It was a spectacle to the neighbors and even the UPS man watched this little mower is not his thing in the front yard. Sure enough, it fits in this way and that way and that, to stay within the wire, and quite good for the entire front yard. It seems to be less generous with cutting stricter quarters.I have a tree that is about 5 feet from my sidewalk and driveway, and this area is always neglected by the Robomow. I have to manually run it about this area, that does not seem like a big deal – except that I have a few areas have as the one between the front and back yards. Anyway, it mows, and makes getting a decent job cut most of the area.
Just when we determined that the cut was as short as I like. My neighbor was talking about it and agreed that it hardlylooked like it removed any grass last fall when we first ran it. We adjusted the height, which made no difference. An online investigation indicated that the mower comes with high-cut blades, and if you want a closer cut, you have to order the low-cut blades separately. So, we ordered and they arrived a couple of weeks later, and the yard was cut more to my liking.
If my robomower continued as it did last fall in October when cutting my lawn, I’d indicate we’re happy with this to acquire. It is not owned up, and it is only April the following year – six months after I started the mower. To improve this in perspective, I mowed my tender new lawn 2-3 times in late October, just because I was eager to use my new electric mower gadget. Living in Kansas, it was cold and even snowed, so the mower was safe in my garage through the winter months in early November and stored not in use …
I have to mow it three weeks ago for the first of the spring, andimmediately, I noticed it runs a bit sluggish when it moved manually to start the yard for mowing. I lifted him up, turned on the perimeter switch and do not let them their cause, and the Robomower pretty cut my side yard, which lasts all of an hour. No problem so far, I thought.
Then I moved it to my front yard and let him mow this area. It was about half way through the front garden before it completely died and I had to literally pull the mower in the garage to plug it in – only onehalf hour after it began cutting the front yard. When it died, it died completely. There was no juice left to move it to the garage or even to turn it on and begin to head in that direction.
I thought, maybe the poor thing is just sluggish from having been stored for the winter, etc. I recharged 24 hours, babytalked to the thing, and set it out on the front lawn to begin mowing again. It finished the front lawn, which takes 80 minutes, and then I moved it to my back yard to start in. It died within 20 minutes, although this time it had enough remaining juice to limp along to the garage for recharging.
Today, I brought it out to the back yard to try again. Just over an hour into the mowing process, after a full day’s charge, it died again. This time completely. I had to drag the power charger cord and an extension cord out to resuscitate it before I could move it back to the garage again for recharging. Grrrrr!
I checked my battery Statistics: setting on the mower and it looks like the mower every 24 hours has to use the original battery came with it before it wastes away substance. Given the size of my yard, it would probably take four days to mow the only one hour before I get hte whole back yard mowed. had mowed Unfortunately it's not like the mower can say where it died and quit mowing every time, so that when I go back to start it again before court, it ends go back to places already.
Obviously, I’m an unhappy camper. Based on the many reviews I’d read prior to buying the robomower, I opted for a second battery which was purchased at the time that I bought the mower itself. I had envisioned that I could charge one while the other was on the mower. Unfortunately, I didn’t buy the special external cord to charge it. It’s still in the box as I type this. Looks like it was a good thing to have prebought, since the old battery will be going back as soon as I can reach tech Support for a warranty claim.
I'll keep you posted on how friendly answers to my question about a warranty claim. At this point I have a lot of money socked fizzles out in a lawn mower that died after one hour, and its battery after 24 hours of total use. Obviously, this product is not ready for prime time. Unfortunately, I will invest all my mowing dollars in buying this thing in good faith, I have to go through the warranty people to solve this, it is up toand functioning right away.
About the need for more pegs: Because my back yard grass came in with a patch-type pattern, it didn’t make sense to use the robomower all over the muddy dirt segments in order to get the patches of grass as well. So, my son and I went out and set up three temporary “zone” type areas for mowing efficiently until the grass filled out elsewhere in the yard. Because these were temporary patches, we used a minimum number of pegs to secure the wire above Ground – a perfectly acceptable practice in the operating manual for the mower. We also have an extra rod or two along the perimeter of each line for additional security effort. The second time was the grass mower out there in the zones, it had a tendency to catch the perimeter wire in his wheel and dragging it along in lines – is to set up substantially alter the zones we are. If I use me permanently on the perimeter wire setups, I would have to secure the device has more vertebrae at the cables. Adecent rule of thumb: one peg for every 5-7 feet of straight stretch of wire.
Very useful tool – Xiaoyan Chen –
RL850 I bought in July 2008. I have beening using it almost every afternoon, except when it rains. So far I am very pleased with this purchase. The lessons are easy to follow and the operation is very simple.
Stopped working in three hours – lawn not finished – Vince Faltesek –
In writing this review I have very mixed feelings and buyers remorse.
First I would say that if you expect great customer service from the the manufacture, your not going to get it. I expected a vendor return with my product as it is defective, but the vendor is absolute in me sending it in for warranty work. After dropping a buck and a half you’d think they’d be concerned about reviews and such, but I guess not. Their stance is that it has a two year warranty and that how it should be handled.
The reason I have mixed feelings is that my mom has the mower with no issues, in fact she is the reason I purchased it, but I see a train wreck coming and things for me usually only get worse with defective product…………..I THINK I GOT A LEMON.
Thank god for Amazon as they are taking a return!
Lasted Update : May 30, 2010 22:47:30
