Flymo 1200R Robot Lawnmower A Few Months Later
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- In this video we take a look at the Flymo 1200R after a few months of ownership, and I am happy to say I am not dissapointed.
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Thanks for the advice, I was very sceptical before buying, but your youtube video convinced me. Anyway just installed mine this evening and I can't stop watching it going back and forth. I'll be keen to see how my lawn looks in a few months time! Plus, looking forward to coming home from work and seeing a freshly cut lawn rather than feeling guilty that my garden is turning into a jungle.
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
I had the 1200R since 2017, same set of blades, I was just about to order some new blades from Amazon. No need now! I found the set of 9 new blades that came with the flymo still in the box. Thanks for the reminder.
Pleasure and happy mowing :)
Just got one of these but not set up yet for my daughter. My edges for any mower that is close to walls edging strips etc I always kill it with (creosote in the old days) but a general weed killer now. It only needs to be the width of a paint brush 3/4 "- 1" or so. Saves the strimming and doesn't look at all untidy.
Nice tip, thanks.
Cheers for the update dude, bought one as well on Prime day after seeing your video. Looking forward to setting it up.
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?
Thanks for the update.. it reminded me that i could reduce the number of days it mows per week and that i should look to lower the blade next week.. glad it's working for you too! :)
Love it, I would deffo replace it when the time comes. Love having a mowed lawn but not having to do it :)
Thinking of getting this, looks great. My lawn is smaller again but hate the hassle of cutting.
I don't think you will regret it Danny. If / When mine dies (hopefully a long way off) I would replace it.
Thanks for the update, I picked one of these up on prime day based on your other video so was interested to see your follow up. I haven't set it up yet but looking forward to 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.
Best purchase I've ever made, had mine 2 years and its an awesome bit of kit. The opaque screen is a nuisance though.
You don't need to see the screen when operating though, or you looking to see something specific?
Nice video, I've bought one but I've sunk all the wires, I found that's best, took quite a lot of time, there's no issue when strimming all round of cutting this wire, I've also made the guide wire all snakey, so the 1200R goes home in a weird fashion !!!! I have a secondary area round the front, here the mower cuts and cuts until it dies, looks great tootling about for the all the neighbours to see !! I'm going to take a video of it in action, I've also got a canopy/garage for mine and I've lit this up with RGB strip lights.
Nice, I especially like the RGB lit home for the mower :)
If you have foxes, it may not be right for you. They bit through my power cable on day 1. The power cable is quite thin, not armoured, and the base station itself is not very flexible, so you can't just lift the base station and put it away each night. There needs to be an armoured cable solution.
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?
3 days per week, but how many hours/minutes is it running per day?
Nice one! Bought one too on the recent prime day. Love it also. Fair bit of fiddling with the boundary wire, but good now. On the 3 days you have it mowing, how many hours is it set to mow?
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.
My garden is plagued by wood pigeons that leave tremendous amounts of crap behind. I spend more time picking up pigeon poo than mowing. Could this be used several times a day for short periods to scare off the pigeons? Is it quiet enough to run early in the morning when the birds are having breakfast without disturbing the neighbours (we live in a detached house). Alternatively is there another piece of kit that would serve this purpose?
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 :)
Watched all of your videos on this mower. Just managed to grab an awesome bargain from b&q to get mine. Will set boundary wires in a few weeks when the weather improves. I wanted to ask did you set the boundary wire 30cm from the fence (which is what seems to be recommended in the guide)? Would it be possible to set them closer to the fence?
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.
I was unlucky, because the same day I bought one of these my grass stopped growing, apart from in the corners.
:)
Thanks for video. I got one last week and installed it at the weekend. I noticed that you have placed the docking station in corner, have you had any issues with that as the instructions say not to install it in a corner? Do you take you docking station in during the winter? Are still happy with yours?
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.
Does it only do the rear garden? How would it work if you a front garden as well (separated by a fence to the rear)
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.
What about grass clippings? Traditional lawn mowers in the UK typically bag up cuttings and they're then removed from the garden or put on a compost pile. Robot lawn mowers can't do that, is it a problem? Do you end up walking loads of grass cuttings back into the house every time you use the back garden?
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.
Hi - I notice that your charging station is in a corner, although the manual says not to ("Do not put the charging station in a corner in the
working area. There must be a straight boundary
wire, at least 1.5 metres long, to the right and left of the charging station."). Have you had any issues with that, or any idea why it says not to?
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.
I am anxious for my arrival but I have some doubts. you have passed cable through the trees or rebound in them because I have seen videos of the 2 ways but I do not know that you advise me? how is the earrings? Thank you
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.
Hi, I have a line of trees in my garden with a circular metal edge at the base of each tree and also the kids climbing frame. How would it work around these items?
You can either run border cable around it, or just let it bump into it and it will continue off in the other direction.
What about front garden, you would need to run two?
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.
Great video, really helpful, thanks.
Thanks :)
Is the robot still working? I am about to buy one and on Amazon there are negative comments. Some say that after 3 weeks stopped working. 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.
you say you have to strim the edges - doesnt the boundary wire get in the way of doing that ? - for example, wouldnt the wire cut the strimmer cutting cable when you hit it ?
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.
Thanks for this helpful review video. Was wondering if you could provide an idea of the electricity cost of running it for 9 hours a day? Thanks
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 :)
Do you worry about it being nicked from the garden? That’s my only worry about getting one. Cheers
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.
$6,000 where I live. I could have my lawn pro cut for six years including the strimming, and save on that power bill... but maybe they will come down to $100 one day.
Yes its good, but not 6k good :)
£530 on Amazon at the moment.
@@SpectrumGeeks where you live ? The moon 🤔🤔🤔
@@leepy120 Not sure I follow?
Do you have any issues with the rear wheel scuffing and removing the grass down to the mud?
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.
Cheers. My lawn is 120m squared. What timer setting would you set it for including recharge time? And how does it know when it has finished cutting the lawn.... by timer or by knowing it has covered everything inside the boundary’s?
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
Hi,
Great video, thanks. Gives a good feel for the thing.
I have about 700m2. Husquarna is too expensive.
You said you mow 3 days a week and have about 290 ish m2 of grass.
(1) could I set this mower to mow 7 days a week. Is that possible in the settings ?
(2) do you reckon on 7 days mowing it would cut 700m2 ?
(3) what settings are available on the thing. A video would be great as there seems to be little available online.
Great video, thanks :)
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. (ua-cam.com/video/cqmtBR--Ja0/v-deo.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.
If I have to strim anyway, I may as well just cut the grass. I can get close enough to the edges with a mower to not need to strim. I hate strimming with a passion.
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.
How can we get it to cut more of the edge of the lawn
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.
What about the front garden????
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.
Can anyone who has a robot mower tell me how it works if you have a front and back lawn? Can the dock be moved according to which lawn you want it to mow? Also, if you have a natural boundry (wall or fence) do you still need to lay the boundry cables or would it work without the boundry cable and just bounce off the wall as it detects an obsticle?
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's nothing like this at this price point in the usa. Enjoy it friends.
ok, but where he empties his grasshopper?
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).
How does it handle dog sh*t?
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.
Who picks up the shit? 😜
Its self mulching so nothing to pick up.
If you have a dog, then you need another robot helper for that mess :)
3 days per week, but how many hours/minutes is it running per day?
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.