Neighborhood cats shit right in the middle of my lawn. It stinks and the robot lawn mover makes it even worse.
I do NOT like cats, and this is not helping.
What works to keep them from shitting on my lawn?
The votes have spoken. Some people are cat lovers; thanks for the great advice from the rest of you! I will not go out of my way to accommodate other people's pets that aren't welcome on my property. My first weapon of choice will be chili because it's simple and cheap. Other ideas have been noted.
It's like an outdoor Roomba. Very common in Europe, nothing special at all.
"nothing special at all" he says...
I grew up using a push mower.
So did I. Now I am old, and will enjoy the modern world.
Until the robot hits a cat turd you could have seen.
I mean, good for you and your good luck in finances. This isn't something we can all afford, though. A lot of my neighbors used rusty reel mowers growing up. Even the gas variants were out of reach.
My daughter has two reel mowers. (She had one, and I gave her mine.)
They don't get used much though, it's more for nostalgia along with my scythe.
I'm imagining that you have a grim reaper outfit to go along with that scythe. And that you do your lawns at night.
Where are you from? These days, Gas and electric mowers are the standard everywhere I've lived here in Canada.
Special if it works, the damn wire needs to be redone completely each spring because it somehow breaks somewhere.
In 1980?
"used to" is past tense, good job
I feel like this can't possibly be true... The cheapest one I can find is $650. Like, these are not affordable for most folks.
But what does a lawn cost in your part of the world? $US650 would buy me maybe one square metre of land down here in NZ.
Calculate out how much time you spend mowing. Even at a pathetic minimum wage like 7.50/h, it's still pretty easy to make the calculation make sense.
Is that a price in euro converted, or price from dollar land?
It's getting better all the time, and I'm happy to see people buying them. ๐ Much like ebikes mid-pandemic. Initial adoption provides capital, gets real-world feedback & conditions, and hopefully that gets communicated back to the company for future R&D, implementation.
I have dreamed about (good) robot lawnmowers. A couple months ago, I saw a business with a couple Husqvarna robomowers; they charged at their little solar-panel hut in the middle of the greens. It was beautiful.
You either afford it, or you pay for not affording it. Hours of your life every week (or hiring a guy), oil changes, feeding it gas?...it adds up. That all goes away if you have an electric robomower.
It hasn't been around super long, it's getting cheaper & better with time...I encourage you to be patient. ๐
Most homeowners are capable of buying a $650 item for household maintenance. If not, they probably should have bought an apartment.
But that's the price of a regular half decent roomba. Consider that they have a house with a lawn, 650 seems cheap. Houses with lawns are expensive.
400 โฌ is not much more than a good petrol mower. And yes, that counts as affordable in middle European countries. This is neither Ethiopia nor Afghanistan.
You say that like Europe isn't comprised of like 50 countries and near a billion people
Iโm from the UK and Iโve never seen an automatic lawnmower unless it was on tv
But all the EU countries got one for christm... Oh....