Flymo 1200R Robot Lawnmower A Few Months Later 

Glad the video helped you Edward, I am still mega happy with mine even a year on. I am sure you will have much enjoyment watching it go about its business ... whilst you sip on a cold one :)

@@SpectrumGeeks do you still have it

Pleasure and happy mowing :)

Nice tip, thanks.

Excellent Shane, was a great price in the Prime Day sale too.

ah, prime day. Yes - good idea. Don't think I can wait that long though. How much was it on prime day?

Love it, I would deffo replace it when the time comes. Love having a mowed lawn but not having to do it :)

I don't think you will regret it Danny. If / When mine dies (hopefully a long way off) I would replace it.

Hey Neil, still loving it. If / when it stops working I would get another in a heart beat. Hope your experience is as good as mine.

Probably best to bury the wires and add some protection around the base unit if you have animal issues. We have foxes here, but touch wood no issues to date.

Did it kill the foxes?

You don't need to see the screen when operating though, or you looking to see something specific?

Nice, I especially like the RGB lit home for the mower :)

I have it set for mowing in between 7am and 9pm I believe, however its normally done by early afternoon. I think by default it doesnt mow more than 12 hours in a day.

Its deffo silently enough to not disturb neighbours early or late hours of the morning. You can schedule it to run in certain windows, so you can deffo achieve what you want, but may be an expensive approach to scaring pigeons though :)

Awesome Tim, you will enjoy it, I just put mine back out again. I set mine the 30cm as recommended, you can set it closer, but it will just bump and head away anyway, so no realy benefit not to in my opinion.

Yeah the install instructions say not to do it, but its where I "wanted" it. In nearly 4 years no issues with docking, and really happy with it and will get another when it gives up. Yes I put the docking station in during the winter, check out my other video on winter prepping the Flymo 1200R.

Not a problem as it cuts so finely its self mulching. Only time ever have issues (if you can call it that) is when kids play in the garden with the paddling pool, then wet feet get the small cuttings on there, but don't get walked into the house under general use.

:)

It will work anywhere you run the boundary wire. So if want to be able to pick it up and move to the front, you will need to run the boundary wire under the fence to the front also.

You can either run border cable around it, or just let it bump into it and it will continue off in the other direction.

I have mine setup so it rebounds, you only need to run cables around the base of the tree if you have a border of plants around them. Not sure what you are referring to regarding earings.

No issues what so ever in all the time I have has it now, I do have the wire coming straight out of it for just over a meter so no issue with departure or docking. I think they suggest against it just to avoid issues and people not thinking / understanding how it works.

Not at all, the boundary wire is a good few inches from the edge, and also over time it semi self buries below the earth. So its a non issue.

This depends. If you front garden is joined to the rear you can run cables from rear to front you can do it with one. If not then yes, you need another as you need the boundary wires in place for the mower to function.

I have not measured it myself, but we can do some rough maths but its costs pence. The mower has a 27Wh battery so roughly 1/4 of a kWh. Over a 9 hour day it will probably charge 3 times, it wont be empty but lets say 3 charges is 75Wh for ease of maths. Then if your electricity costs are around the UK average of 16 pence per kWh it will cost you about 12 pence per day to run.

@@SpectrumGeeks 1 kW is 1000 Watts.

@@SpectrumGeeks so it's 7.5% of 16p, which is 1.2p a day even cheaper

@@johnconner6446 True, I had a decimal issue :)

Thanks :)

Still working beautifully, not mowed my lawn since I got it :)

I had mine since 2017, never missed a beat, start on time every time come rain or shine. More reliable than my ex-gardener.

Based on your lawn size, you probably want it cutting for around 5 hours of the day, 4 - 5 days a week. My space is lager, but I got for cutting 3 days a week, but mowing for about 8 hours of the day. It finishes based on timer / cutting schedule. Page 22 of the manual has information related to the above.

Thanks! Will give that a go. The thing I'm wondering about is: say i set it for 5 hours, but it finishes cutting my full lawn before the 5 hours, does it keep going until the clock ticks over or does it somehow magically know it has completed early and so will go home to dock earlier than the 5 hours....

It will keep on going until the time runs out. It doesnt know where, when or how much cutting its done, it just goes around in its random pattern slowly but surely cutting all the lawn to the desired length over time.

kind of mesmerising to watch!

Ha ha yeah, you swap mowing the lawn, to watching a robot doing it, so no time saved :D

Not really, its pin protected so someone couldnt use it if they stole it anyway, and as its in the back garden its kept out of sight, and its so silent when running, it doesnt really advertise itself.

Spectrum Geeks Cheers, I really fancy one now, it looks much better than I was expecting. Just watched another video and you can bury the boundary cable which would suit me

Yup, burying is optional. Even when pegged it soon becomes invisible. I love mine.

Hi K Smith. By default its set to mow 7 days a week, but I just didnt need it. I think it would cut your size garden but Flymo says 400m2 is its max, but assume they are just covering themselves. In terms of setting there is not much to it (see my other videos). You can change cutting height and how often it cuts and set alarm, thats pretty much it.

@@SpectrumGeeks thanks thats good to know. I just ordered one for £400 exactly, new, on amazon. Just ordering extra pegs and boundary wire now. We have a square area of grass that cars park on which is part of the 700m2. I'm going to do a switching wire or somehing as such for that area, so the mower can get in there during the day when no cars are on it. In the longer term gps /rtk / rtklib/ + chip set is the way forward with ~ 2cm guiding precision. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cqmtBR--Ja0.html). I have another area of grass as well as the 700m2, and the auto mower would have to cross the drive to get to it. It's about 300m2. With a smarter guided solution (rather than existing random mow), the thing could be driven at appropriate times and to specific areas, or in a given mow pattern. Far more efficient. I'd be building it myself, but for having no time. Your videos are great: got me to the point of making the buy. Cheers, Kes Smith, Aberdeen

Pleasure, be interested to hear how you get on.

@@ksmith7122 hi there let me know if it works out for you on the 700sqm lawn , mine is approx that also , would appreciate feed back , I also have other areas that will need mowing but will after cross drive to get to them🤔

@@leepy120 hi Lee, it has been installed since mid last year and does 700m2 no bother. I only run it 9am - 5pm every other day. Mower on/off times are configured using the touch panel. I'm going to get rid of my patch of chuckies that separates the two bits of grass I have - the mower currently only cuts one lawn. Once they are joined it will cut both lawns which total about 1,300m2. I see no reason the one mower won't cut all of it, because I can use the days up when it's sitting there doing nothing. I will just have to change the on/off timing so that it is cutting longer. Highly recommend burying the perimeter wire once your happy the wire is in the right location. For some reason my wire popped up a bit over winter while the mower was in storage in the garage. I only found out where the wire had popped up when the mower chopped through it. Had to make 9 joins where it cut through in various places. Also once wire is buried you can do the edges with the petrol mower once a month,.without chopping the perimeter wire. It's definately a game changer and definately recommend getting one. It does a good job too. I'd say it takes about a day all in to set-up and get going, then another half day to bury the wire once you're happy with everything. I really value the grass cutting time I've recovered for leisure and activities I like.

Yes its good, but not 6k good :)

£530 on Amazon at the moment.

@@SpectrumGeeks where you live ? The moon 🤔🤔🤔

@@leepy120 Not sure I follow?

I actually don't mind strimming with a cordless strimmer, only takes a few mins.

@@SpectrumGeeks until the plastic thread runs out or stops feeding through. And it's noisy and messy. Plus I have hedges and sapling trees - the strimmer would damage the trunks if I'm not careful.

Move the boundary wire closer to the edge.

@@SpectrumGeeks but then the lawnmower falls off the edge unfortunately

@@Mujahid2885 Sounds like you already have it as close as possible. Will just need to strim the boundary areas.

Only if the grass starts to get boggy due to poor weather, but in general this is not an issue until winter.

@@SpectrumGeeks what do you do during winter (talking proper winter with snow), Do you remove the docking station and mower and leave the guide wires and boundary wires in place?

@@Daniel-dy7qm Flymo recommend bringing in the docking base but I never do. Once the winter arrives and its wet and frosty I bring the mower in and store it, then bring it back out in the spring. If you look on my channel I have a video about winter storage showing what I do.

@@SpectrumGeeks Thanks for the feedback, I will take a look at your other videos.

I got rid of all the grass out the front of my house so don't use it there. If you want to use it out front, ideally tou need to be able to run the peremiter wire out there also.

It will bounce off the borders without issue. The dock cant easily be moved, I am not tried moving out of the range of the boundary wires, as I removed all my grass from the front lawn.

@@SpectrumGeeks thank you for replying. Your advice is helpful. My back garden is enclosed so i guess i could put the dock out the front and just carry the mower to the back. Just hope no one steals it as the front is visible to passer bys.

There is no grassbox. As it mows it cuts the grass so fine it leaves it behind, so its self mulching and great for the grass.

@@SpectrumGeeks tank you

A lawn expert said you may still want to scarify the grass a couple of times a year as that's a lot of grass to mulch down over a single year

Yeah, I am no garden expert but I did do this last year (borrowed a friends).

if you dont get to it first it will roll through and squish it :) So I make sure I clean up after my dog when it happens so no surprises later.

Its self mulching so nothing to pick up. If you have a dog, then you need another robot helper for that mess :)

Hey Will, I am not near the mower right now, but from memory I have it set to 9 hours work hours per day. This doesnt mean it always runs for that long, its just the maximum. This is based on garden area size and allows for multiple recharges back at its station.