Tool for laying perimeter wire for robot lawn mower?

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Hi all,

For the new house, we have a ~150m perimeter lawn to lay a wire around for a robot lawnmower, who here has done that before and what tools did you use?

Professional installers usethe petrol-engined wire-laying tool that make it look amazingly simple, but I can't see where I can rent one of these from that isn't hundreds of pounds a day.

https://www.agrieuro.co.uk/geotech-...ight-and-handy-groove-depth-3-cm-p-14212.html

This looks like it'd be very helpful but they don't ship to the UK anymore, and I can't find anything similar in the uk.

I want to make sure it's properly in the grass and not sitting on top, so that it doesn't get cut (lots of people who just peg on top say it ends up getting cut by the mower/chewed by animals.

I've ordered the mower, a Bosch Indego S+ 500.

Open to suggestions!
 
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I pegged it down on top, after about 6 months you won't be able to find any trace of it.

When i needed to alter the layout it took me ages scrabbling in the grass to find the wire, ended up using a pick to scrape over the area to locate it in the end.

I'm pretty liberal with the strimmer around the edges and i've never had an issue with the wire as long as you peg it down properly, also makes it easier to alter in the future if its not buried too deep.
 
rG-tom said:
Would this not take absolutely ages to do 150m?
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I mean, you could pretty much put your spade in, pull it back, put wire in, lay back down.

Might take a while but I guess it depends what you'd rather do...spend the money to rent something or just spend a weekend or do laying.
 
The only tool that is needed is you. :D

Peg it down like sovietspybob suggests and it will soon grow over the top.
 
Not something I know much about but aren't there models around the same price range which don't need the guide wire?

I seem to remember the Worx you can even walk the boundaries, etc.
 
The thing you linked in looks like a pizza cutter with a broomstick attached to the end... Could you bodge that? It just needs to cut the soil a few CM down surely?
 
rG-tom said:
Hi all,

For the new house, we have a ~150m perimeter lawn to lay a wire around for a robot lawnmower, who here has done that before and what tools did you use?

Professional installers usethe petrol-engined wire-laying tool that make it look amazingly simple, but I can't see where I can rent one of these from that isn't hundreds of pounds a day.

https://www.agrieuro.co.uk/geotech-...ight-and-handy-groove-depth-3-cm-p-14212.html

This looks like it'd be very helpful but they don't ship to the UK anymore, and I can't find anything similar in the uk.

I want to make sure it's properly in the grass and not sitting on top, so that it doesn't get cut (lots of people who just peg on top say it ends up getting cut by the mower/chewed by animals.

I've ordered the mower, a Bosch Indego S+ 500.

Open to suggestions!
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Search for lawn edger, loads of places in the UK sell them.
 
Rroff said:
Not something I know much about but aren't there models around the same price range which don't need the guide wire?

I seem to remember the Worx you can even walk the boundaries, etc.
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Couldnt find any sensible priced models that didn't require a boundary wire :)
 
Delvis said:
I mean, you could pretty much put your spade in, pull it back, put wire in, lay back down.

Might take a while but I guess it depends what you'd rather do...spend the money to rent something or just spend a weekend or do laying.
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somewhere in the middle :D
 
rG-tom said:
I can't find any "known" models at all that don't need one?
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I may have been mistaken on the functionality - I saw demos of some of the Worx models where you could mark out boundaries in software and assumed they didn't need the wire but looking in the details now they all say they include the perimeter wire. (Don't really know enough about it to know what the limits and/or abilities of the software is).
 
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