Husqvarna 265ACX (or 260ACX) Automower.

[lawn mower fanatic]

I have no clue what that has to do with your robotic mower. :confused2: Maybe you hang the clothes out when you mow the lawn so the clothes smell like fresh-cut grass?? I'm clueless!

 

[Perry]

The clue lies in the pegs.

 

[exotion]

It's a boundry wire

 

[Perry]

Keep guessing! I didn't aim to make this
easy. :confused2: No prizes to win or lose, either.

How many days do you reckon I should
allow before asking: d'y'all give in?

 

[Perry]

A Month Later . . .

As reported earlier, the watchwords for Husqvarna NZ seem to be
obfuscation, general incompetence and delay. One consequence
of that is, as Coxy has been operating for over a month with the
condition previously described to them, further stress fractures
have appeared in the plastic cowling.

I wonder how long it will be before the front falls off?!

 

[briggs]

a friend of mine bought one a few years back and all I can say is its POS misses half the grass in the corners unless u round your yard out ...To me its a lazy mans mower ..I much rather cut my grass with a real lawnmower then u cant complain ..If its to save on pollution then use a cordless mower ...Best thing for those units is a 8 pound sledge hammer it will fix it no prob ..As for the dealer most of them are like that because to be honest they do get to deal with allot of people that don't treat there equipment right ,Hope u get it figured out as those are not cheap

 

[Perry]

The Added Extras

There will always be the necessity to deal with edges and corners.
Even with big gas guzzlers as the main area mowers. In this case,
the mower does a great job of keeping the area tidy and well mown.

I have to go around the trees, edges and corners with a variety of
accessory tools, but that's what I expected. But your comment that
it's a lazy man's mower is valid - in a sense. It's not that I'm inher-
ently lazy, but that the lawn expanse is sufficiently large that a big-
area robot mower made more sense than a ride-on.

One odd-ball side effect is that I now pay more attention to the turf
quality! One of the grasses, a dwarf rye, seems rather susceptible
to brown patch fungus (Rhizoctonia solani), so gets regular fungicide
applications. Plus more attempts at controlling hydrocotyle and creep-
ing oxalis. If I thought lawn management was going to be less, I was
wrong. All that's happened is that it's changed from one maintenance
activity to another.

Such is life! :ashamed:

 

[MowerMike]

Perhaps you should consider one of these:

 

[Perry]

Bosch et al are too small

This beast has ultrasound sensors that slow it down to half
speed when an obstacle is detected in front of it. Some details
were mentioned back in this post.

But - based on observation - the sensors do not have a 100%
object detection success rate.

AFAIK, the 265ACX has no competition in the large lawn area
range of robotic mowers. E.g. 5000-plus square meters. That's
about 53,000-plus square feet. (Around 1.2 acres)

The dealer came the other day and noticed yet another stress
fracture that had escaped my attention. I shall get some more
pix when the sun's out.

 

[Perry]

Well, here's the pic of the additional crack spotted by the dealer.

Is it fair to say that the plastic was a dud brew? Too much
hardener or the like?

The dealer made noises like he thought there might have been some
abuse of the mower. He based that on some dents in the logo, plus
one lug turned in/over, slightly.

Seems to me to be drawing a long bow on that. However, he did say that
the general installation was certainly not at fault.

He said that the plan was to order another cowling, replace it, then send
the cracked one to Mickey Mouse HusQvarna NZ for an assessment.

That was about a week ago. A crashing gale of silence, since then.