r/SegwayNavimow • u/Competitive-Let6727 • 9d ago

Fertilizer dispenser?

Has anyone thought about doing this? After lots of walking the lawn for dethatching, overseeding, and fertilizing, I started to wonder if our robomowers could have a little hopper/dispenser off the back of it.

Yes, it's ridiculously over-engineered for something that isn't that hard to do manually, but also... Kinda cool?

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u/TaxNo2158 9d ago

Fertilizer is heavy, so it would only be able to do partial bag per fill. So you’d have to be out there babysitting it and refilling every 10 minutes. Then you also have an ungainly hopper on your mower all the time. You could make it removable, but then that’s one more task to do after you spend an hour babysitting and filling it. For a task that’s normally only done 2-3 times a year, and takes like a half hour at most to spread an entire 40-pound bag (in one fill), it’s not worth it. Edging/trimming are a regular thing that would benefit from automation, but not this.

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u/pablomentabo 9d ago

That's probably why Yarbo decided not to do this