-
Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
A few pics before going to work.
- Thread starter duke
- Start date
fuse
Sapling
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2025
- Messages
- 463
- Reaction score
- 365
- Location
- Herefordshire UK
- Name
- Martin
- LOCATION
- Uk
Nice
My view was the engine compartment of a recalcitrant van
My view was the engine compartment of a recalcitrant van
DaveL
Old Oak
I love the picture of the spider web, I can remember making a loop of grass and trying to collect webs on the way to primary school.
duke
Old Oak
Sure did, problem with being away on job sites.
duke
Old Oak
duke
Old Oak
Used to have a Troy Built, great machine which had a cutting height of 7" which was ideal for tall grass areas. Sadly no way to attach a collector other than a pull behind sweep. My wife wasn't keen on the dogs bringing grass clippings into the house. Go figure. 
Accipiter
Nordic Pine
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2025
- Messages
- 793
- Reaction score
- 610
- Location
- Frome, Somerset
- Name
- Frank
- LOCATION
- Somerset
You need to get yourself one of these Scott 
While on holiday in Cornwall last month we visited the https://www.bonythonmanor.co.uk/ and saw this in action covering a very large area around trees and a lake at the bottom of this paddock/orchard. Quite impressive to watch it going backwards and forwards doing its job. Definitely saves the gardener there a fair bit of work - and time. Hopefully gives a small sight of the area it was covering...
I took a 2½ minute video of it going round... not sure how to (if ablevto?) upload a video... plus it may be a bit boring for watching - but I'll admit to finding g it rather relaxing... and avtad mesmerising
While on holiday in Cornwall last month we visited the https://www.bonythonmanor.co.uk/ and saw this in action covering a very large area around trees and a lake at the bottom of this paddock/orchard. Quite impressive to watch it going backwards and forwards doing its job. Definitely saves the gardener there a fair bit of work - and time. Hopefully gives a small sight of the area it was covering...
I took a 2½ minute video of it going round... not sure how to (if ablevto?) upload a video... plus it may be a bit boring for watching - but I'll admit to finding g it rather relaxing... and avtad mesmerising
fuse
Sapling
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2025
- Messages
- 463
- Reaction score
- 365
- Location
- Herefordshire UK
- Name
- Martin
- LOCATION
- Uk
Definitely saves the gardener there a fair bit of work - and time
probably has cost one his job
probably has cost one his job
Accipiter
Nordic Pine
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2025
- Messages
- 793
- Reaction score
- 610
- Location
- Frome, Somerset
- Name
- Frank
- LOCATION
- Somerset
True Martin... and that did cross my mind. Unfortunately a sign of the times and not just in such gardens as these. Watched the Clarkson's Farm series and saw him using robotic ploughing and sowing machines... working through the nights as well as days... Now there's 'driverless taxis' starting to drive folk around London...Definitely saves the gardener there a fair bit of work - and time
probably has cost one his job
duke
Old Oak
I did look into these at one time, for a commercial/farm grade unit and I fainted at the price.
I do enjoy sitting on the mower, its a weird satisfaction knowing you did the job.
I do enjoy sitting on the mower, its a weird satisfaction knowing you did the job.
Dr.Al
Old Oak
They've got quite a few robot mowers at work. Husqvarna ones I think. They seem to spend an awful lot of time parked in the middle of the lawn having run out of battery.