so Brad, whats your involvement... you seem to know more about it:)
From a neighbour perpective, I can say....On a complex lawn the Husq does sometimes get stuck. For example sometimes it wants to cut through a hedge, turns out the perimeter wire was too close at one point. to begin with it was running over the edge, where the perimeter wire was too close to the edge by about 1 inch.
So despite the apparent simplicity, I think there has been quite alot of RandD to get it to the stage it is:
- If you try to nick it an alarm goes off.
- It learns the complete map of the lawn, so if you have several separate lawns it knows to cover them all equally (Iain has a number of small lawns separated by paths).
- It has to know the state of the battery and where it is so it can get back.
- It works in the rain
- It has an app from which you can control cutting times cutting height, send it home, see where it is etc etc
I am sure there is more.
And for £40 per year the supplier takes it away, services it and stores it in the winter for you, so no lawnmower in the shed, now £300 service bills or expensive belts. The blades are I believe replaced for that price. In Austria there are huge sheds with 1000 of them every winter I am lead to believe .
