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We have the Husqvarna mower. The first one we got was a smaller because we had zoysia grass and it is very low thin grass. Mower worked great. You lay a wire about 4" from the curb and walkways and about 4" deep. At first our mower would end up outside the curb and neighbors would let us know he was "stuck" in the gutter. Mower will stop if it is too far over the wire. That is when we realized that you can adjust how far the mower goes over the wire. We made the adjustment.

It has a GPS and alarm if picked up without putting in your code. We had it for about 4 years, worked great. Then we switched to St. Augustine grass and got the same model just a larger one to cut thicker grass. You can put layers bricks or such decor to prevent having to "trim" a lot. Wife does most of the trimming. However, lawn guys have offered to do just a trim job whenever they are doing the lawns in the area. Reasonable price, but spouse likes that part of the yard work. Wire is laid wherever you don't want it to cross. We only find it necessary to loop around the yard. You can run the wire across the drive, like a little pathway and mower will cross over to do the other side of the drive. We did that at first and then decided mower spent too much time crossing our large drive. We cut out that part of the loop.

Now we just carry mower over to that area when we want it mowed. Mower works in any weather. We run it from around 6 pm to 7am. Remember it takes time-out to recharge the battery during those runs. It is an auto so we just set him to run when sprinkler are off and at night. Mower runs until it is time to recharge and it goes back to its charge station and renews its power and back out it goes again. It has a start time and when to be finished. You can decide where you want the charging station to be. It is a about 3 feet square space to take up. Depending on the size mower you get. When we got our first one we had. to call to get a code to set it up. We now have been using an auto mower for about eight or nine years and it has saved a lot of money and cross contamination from other lawns dropped seeds. That is probably the best advantage of having an auto-mower; you do not get the insect and weed contamination from other lawns that the mower services carry on their mowers.