Robot Mower

Robot Mower HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Mowers (38) 18-1-5 "Weed Eater" Imports Robot Mower - That "robot mower" from Belgium that was featured on the cover of FARM SHOW a year ago (Vol. 17, No. 1) and again this winter on the cover of the 1994 Edition of "Best of FARM SHOW", will soon be on the market in the U.S. and Canada, manufactured and marketed by Poulan/Weed Eater of Shreveport, Louisiana. "We'll probably have a limited number of units on the market in 1994 and, if all goes well, they should be widely available by 1995," says Charles Hodges, Poulan/Weed Eater spokesman. The solar-powered mower is already on the market in Europe, manufactured by Husqvarna, where it sells for about $3,000. Poulan/ Weed Eater hopes to put a much lower price on it in North America, and they also say some engineering changes will be made to the mower to adapt it to North American conditions. The first-of-its-kind mower is totally automatic, keeping your lawn at a pre-set height without refueling and requires virtually no maintenance. You put it out on the lawn in the spring and take it in each fall. It senses the height of un-cut grass and shuts down if the grass is too wet to mow. It bounces back from obstacles such as trees, buildings, hedges. On lawns without a natural boundary to turn the mower, you simply run an underground wire that sends a signal to the mower as it approaches. To get on a mailing list for more information about the robot mower when it becomes available, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, David Anderson, Project Manager, Poulan/Weed Eater, 5020 Flournoy-Lucas Rd., Shreveport, La. 71129 (ph 318 687-0100).

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