What a lawn mowe
After sorting the boarder with the wire supplied, this helps the robot from cutting your plants. The robot cut a perfect lawn, then he goes back home to charge for his next trip out,to keep the grass at a certain level, no need to empty the robot has there is no gress to collect, it stays on the lawn. Put him away for winter now.(November 25th before the frost) very impressed.

Perfect. For me at least.
I have a decent sized back lawn, no front lawn, just a nice area that I would usually have to mow at least once a week. This little beauty keeps it looking like a green carpet with no fuss.
I have no grass clippings to worry about and the lawn has never looked healthier.

Time saver.
After a few issues with the boundary wire, and a few emails to flymo, I finally got ‘Mowses’ up and running.

I have a large garden with various obstacles in the lawn (trees, bird feeder etc….). I have found this mower frees up so much time, that I can now relax and enjoy the garden a bit more.

I buried the guide wire, time consuming, but worth the effort. A top tip, is to purchase some clear 4mm tubing, for ‘islands’ around tree’s. I threaded one side of the cable through the tubing and taped the ‘return’ cable to the side of the tubing, so the wires do not cross each other are a perfect distance from each other, enabling the robotic lawnmower to cross the buried cable, with no issues.

Here’s the link to the tubing I purchased. 4mm ID x 6mm OD – 10m Length PVC Clear Hose Vinyl Tubing, Food Grade Plastic Flexible Tube Pipe for Transfer Water Oil air https://amzn.eu/d/8jMX9Qi

Good
After 11 months of use the robbot stopped charging, at first I thought it was the battery. Tried to contact flymo support
Could not talk to them.
Then I thought may be charging contacts between lawmover and the station need cleaning. With a fine sand paper cleaned charging contacts on the mover place it in the station that fixed the problem.
So to keep the unit going every time you clean/sharpen the blades clean mover charging contacts.

One of my Favourite Purchases!
So far, this has been one of my favourite purchases to date.

I love cutting grass but a heavy workload, lack of free time available and the fact that we don’t often get dry sunny days to cut grass up here in Scotland, meant that this was a great solution to maintaining our garden throughout the grass-growing seasons and although it comes at a cost – if it stands the test of time, it wont take long for it to pay for itself.

Pro’s
– once you have it all set up its so good.
– You can set a schedule or timetable and it will go out and do its thing before returning to the base to charge.
– There is an app that’s ok – I dont often use it after setting up the scheduling but you have an element of control over it.
– its quiet, really quiet – when its out cutting, it doesn’t even disturb birds in the garden, the dog if she’s out and it will have no affect on interrupting conversations if you have anyone round sitting in the garden.
– little to no grass cuttings to contend with. (unless your grass is too long to begin with – I’d suggest you cut the grass before first use and let the mower maintain that).

Con’s
– so, you have to install a wire around the perimeter of the area to be cut.
– You can use the provided stakes to pin it down, which is easy enough but be warned that on the lowest/shortest cutting setting (we found the longer and medium setting too long) it cut the cable in places – so burying it is probably the best solution and that is a rubbish task to carry out, essentially going round with an edging tool and pushing the cable into the ground, all the way around. Its boring and time consuming but worth it.
– You essentially have 3 spinning blades that cut the grass to a length and if like us, you choose to have the mower out every day – its really just nipping the top off the grass. Theres no vacuum or catch bag, so the grass just lands on the grass, essentially self-replenishing itself. It does however mean that any footwear that crosses it, will bring an element of grass back indoors (particularly when the grass is damp/wet).
– like a traditional mower – grass does accumulate underneath and you will from time to time have to clean the undercarriage.

Neither Pro nor Con
– you’ll need an outside power source
– the optional flymo cover is expensive. I didn’t like the idea of no cover at all, given the weather conditions up north and so went with the purpose made one by Flymo, thinking that it would connect to the charging base but to my disappointment it is a free-standing structure that is in no way connected to the device – so a cheaper or DIY alternative should be considered.

Decent performance but comes with DRM installed!
performs well overall. Its nice and quiet and does a good job in our garden.

The issue with this mower is that what they don’t tell you is that it will refuse to operate for more than 2 hours in a given day and will tell you that the operating limit has been reached and will refuse to work for 24 hours after this (so if you exceed the limit close to midnight – it may refuse to work for 2 days after this). This is purely a software restriction installed to make you buy the “bigger” models (all GO models have the exact same hardware – the only difference is the level of time restriction in the firmware). This needs to be considered as if you run the machine with default settings (where it wants to run all night) it can leave the machine out of action every 2nd day. You cannot force it to cut once this limit is reached, the manual modes are all locked out once the limit is reached. That said if you set it to 1 hour a day max, and run it every couple of days, it should do fine in a small garden but I hate this concept / implementation of DRM.

Product support is dire, they don’t reply to messages at all.

Installation is a long process, as you have to bury the boundary wire really (they will show that you don’t have to do this just lay it on the surface, but if you do this, its very easy to get the wire cut especially if your lawn is not dead flat).

The supplied power cord is VERY short (2 meters) and you’ll probably need to purchase a larger wire which are pretty expensive too unless you can put your base station right by an external power source.

The android / apple app is a must really but the Bluetooth range is pretty short here, so forget operating it from indoors, you have to go stand by the machine really to get it to connect.