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Mower fixed. Deck removed, bent metal thingie hammered back into place and shape and welded back on.
Until we hit the next surprise steel post.
Looks like we're due a new set of blades as well.
Then deck reinstalled. This is the annoying part with holding the heavy thing in the right place while fiddling various finger-pinching things into their slots. And then wrestling the deck belt back on.
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Mower fixed. Deck removed, bent metal thingie hammered back into place and shape and welded back on.
Until we hit the next surprise steel post.
Looks like we're due a new set of blades as well.
Then deck reinstalled. This is the annoying part with holding the heavy thing in the right place while fiddling various finger-pinching things into their slots. And then wrestling the deck belt back on.
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Mower front tyre getting another patch. After the last patch it had a slow leak. Usable but annoying to pump up every two weeks. Turns out the leak was on my patch, so its patch upon patch now. We'll see how that does.
The rear tyre patch worked perfectly, to my surprise, as I simply poked a slice of rubber from an ancient inner tube through the hole with some vulcanizing goop. Zero leakage there.
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Mower front tyre getting another patch. After the last patch it had a slow leak. Usable but annoying to pump up every two weeks. Turns out the leak was on my patch, so its patch upon patch now. We'll see how that does.
The rear tyre patch worked perfectly, to my surprise, as I simply poked a slice of rubber from an ancient inner tube through the hole with some vulcanizing goop. Zero leakage there.
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if you're looking for climate friendly grass care options, try out my new organic #mower. will deal with your whole field off just one can!
#pixelart #pixel_dailies @pixel_dailies -
if you're looking for climate friendly grass care options, try out my new organic #mower. will deal with your whole field off just one can!
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The Mownster found a hidden stump which bent a piece of the mowing deck. That piece proceeded to cut into the soil. Had to lift it up and hammer the piece back into shape.
Mowing was overdue, as with me digging holes around the house nobody was doing it. Luckily during the heatwave the grass was growing slower than usual. Still a struggle in some places.
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The Mownster found a hidden stump which bent a piece of the mowing deck. That piece proceeded to cut into the soil. Had to lift it up and hammer the piece back into shape.
Mowing was overdue, as with me digging holes around the house nobody was doing it. Luckily during the heatwave the grass was growing slower than usual. Still a struggle in some places.
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Pixel dailies: Mower
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #Mower #ドット絵 #aseprite #Procreate @pixel_dailies -
Pixel dailies: Mower
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #Mower #ドット絵 #aseprite #Procreate @pixel_dailies -
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THE GARDEN GATE: It’s the month of ‘UGHH!’ | Sherrie Ottinger https://www.allforgardening.com/1850308/the-garden-gate-its-the-month-of-ughh-sherrie-ottinger/ #agriculture #archaeplastida #botany #garden #gardening #grass #horticulture #Kingdoms(biology) #KitchenGarden #lawn #leaf #Mower #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #pruning #rain #soil #Vegetable #wasp #water #weed
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THE GARDEN GATE: It’s the month of ‘UGHH!’ | Sherrie Ottinger https://www.allforgardening.com/1850308/the-garden-gate-its-the-month-of-ughh-sherrie-ottinger/ #agriculture #archaeplastida #botany #garden #gardening #grass #horticulture #Kingdoms(biology) #KitchenGarden #lawn #leaf #Mower #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #pruning #rain #soil #Vegetable #wasp #water #weed
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Being aware of fire danger this summer | Gardening https://www.allforgardening.com/1839123/being-aware-of-fire-danger-this-summer-gardening/ #barbecue #fire #FireStation #firefighter #firefighting #fireworks #garden #gardening #lawn #LawnMower #Mower #wildfires
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Being aware of fire danger this summer | Gardening https://www.allforgardening.com/1839123/being-aware-of-fire-danger-this-summer-gardening/ #barbecue #fire #FireStation #firefighter #firefighting #fireworks #garden #gardening #lawn #LawnMower #Mower #wildfires
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Bosch Rotak LI36 given another few years (acquired in 2014). Unfortunately, that part of the assembly can no longer be purchased as a spare part. I apologize to the Gardena family. The Bosch mower had its first post-surgery run and is recovering well.
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Bosch Rotak LI36 given another few years (acquired in 2014). Unfortunately, that part of the assembly can no longer be purchased as a spare part. I apologize to the Gardena family. The Bosch mower had its first post-surgery run and is recovering well.
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DIY flail mulcher build. Pretty well done! Shaft alignment didn't seem to happen though.
Didn't say how much it cost him, which would've been interesting. I wonder, because you can buy these for €900 (Mateng NEFL).
He still had to buy all the steel, four flange bearings, the gearbox, pulleys + taper fittings and the hammers, so I kinda doubt he saved much, if any.
Fun to watch though! :-)
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DIY flail mulcher build. Pretty well done! Shaft alignment didn't seem to happen though.
Didn't say how much it cost him, which would've been interesting. I wonder, because you can buy these for €900 (Mateng NEFL).
He still had to buy all the steel, four flange bearings, the gearbox, pulleys + taper fittings and the hammers, so I kinda doubt he saved much, if any.
Fun to watch though! :-)
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Mownster maintenance.
Too many sticks wedged in the various deck channels 😆
This thing has impressed me with how much it can handle. They are designed for a poncy lawn that gets aerated and fertilized, but it handles shredding small branches, chewing a path through a meadow, clearing an overgrown goat pen (minus the shrubs) and even driving up the really steep forest road, although only when its not too wet and slippery.
It also mowed steel, rocks, concrete chunks, molehills, bricks and small stumps hiding in the grass with nothing more than some dents in the blades.
The weak point is the collector chute which blocks up when the grass is too moist or thick or a twig gets stuck sideways. Can still mulch without collection then.
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Mownster maintenance.
Too many sticks wedged in the various deck channels 😆
This thing has impressed me with how much it can handle. They are designed for a poncy lawn that gets aerated and fertilized, but it handles shredding small branches, chewing a path through a meadow, clearing an overgrown goat pen (minus the shrubs) and even driving up the really steep forest road, although only when its not too wet and slippery.
It also mowed steel, rocks, concrete chunks, molehills, bricks and small stumps hiding in the grass with nothing more than some dents in the blades.
The weak point is the collector chute which blocks up when the grass is too moist or thick or a twig gets stuck sideways. Can still mulch without collection then.
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Hype for the Future 203M: LeRoy—Ostrander, Minnesota
Overview The communities of LeRoy and Ostrander represent a pair of communities located within the boundaries of Mower County, Minnesota, including Sweet’s Hotel, Restaurant, and Lounge in LeRoy and the Wolf’s Den in Ostrander. Overall, the general vicinity, including LeRoy city limits, is accessible chiefly via Route 56.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/hype-for-the-future-203m-leroy-ostrander-minnesota/
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Hype for the Future 203M: LeRoy—Ostrander, Minnesota
Overview The communities of LeRoy and Ostrander represent a pair of communities located within the boundaries of Mower County, Minnesota, including Sweet’s Hotel, Restaurant, and Lounge in LeRoy and the Wolf’s Den in Ostrander. Overall, the general vicinity, including LeRoy city limits, is accessible chiefly via Route 56.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/hype-for-the-future-203m-leroy-ostrander-minnesota/
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Popped the two leaky tyres off the lawnmownster and patched them.
Patched a crack in the sidewall, probably from some metal junk. Its at the curvature and can't really patch it from the inside, so outside it is.
And one from a thorn in the rear tyre tread. Drilled up the hole, cut a sliver from an old inner tube, folded it in half and jammed it in with a screwdriver and some vulcan sweat.
Both not leaking now, but time will tell after some use.
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Popped the two leaky tyres off the lawnmownster and patched them.
Patched a crack in the sidewall, probably from some metal junk. Its at the curvature and can't really patch it from the inside, so outside it is.
And one from a thorn in the rear tyre tread. Drilled up the hole, cut a sliver from an old inner tube, folded it in half and jammed it in with a screwdriver and some vulcan sweat.
Both not leaking now, but time will tell after some use.
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Hype for the Future 198D: City of Austin, Minnesota
Overview The City of Austin is a small city in and the county seat of Mower County, Minnesota, along Interstate 90 and Routes 218 and 105. Today, the community is associated with the Hormel Historic Home, Buffy the Cow, and the Mower County Historical Society.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/hype-for-the-future-198d-city-of-austin-minnesota/
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Hype for the Future 198D: City of Austin, Minnesota
Overview The City of Austin is a small city in and the county seat of Mower County, Minnesota, along Interstate 90 and Routes 218 and 105. Today, the community is associated with the Hormel Historic Home, Buffy the Cow, and the Mower County Historical Society.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/hype-for-the-future-198d-city-of-austin-minnesota/
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Look out for this #autonomos #spring #mower. The Lymow One Plus is next generation #smart home #hightech. A fusion of advanced #robotics, #AI perception, intelligent propulsion, and cutting‑deck engineering #NewGizmo #Camera newgizmoblog.com/2026/02/10/b...
Built for the Lawns Other Robo... -
Look out for this #autonomos #spring #mower. The Lymow One Plus is next generation #smart home #hightech. A fusion of advanced #robotics, #AI perception, intelligent propulsion, and cutting‑deck engineering #NewGizmo #Camera newgizmoblog.com/2026/02/10/b...
Built for the Lawns Other Robo... -
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https://www.evshift.com/356603/honda-hrc-be-battery-powered-commercial-mower/ Honda HRC-BE Battery Powered Commercial Mower #Battery #commercial #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #Honda #HRCBE #Mower #powered
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Honda’s robot lawnmower needs you to train it before it works alone. #Honda #Lawnmower #Mower #Robotics
https://gadgetbond.com/honda-prozision-autonomous-lawnmower/
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Honda’s robot lawnmower needs you to train it before it works alone. #Honda #Lawnmower #Mower #Robotics
https://gadgetbond.com/honda-prozision-autonomous-lawnmower/
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#Gardening : compost is good. Particularly when we learn that the collections of some classes by privatised services ( eg Thames Water) are poisoned by adding toxic collections to clean ones, and then returned to farmland, one might keep it at home.
So, a heap.
Munch it up with the lawnmower to avoid a painful back later and speed composting. -
#Gardening : compost is good. Particularly when we learn that the collections of some classes by privatised services ( eg Thames Water) are poisoned by adding toxic collections to clean ones, and then returned to farmland, one might keep it at home.
So, a heap.
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**Severe weather alerts and automations in Home Assistant**
(link to blog)
Yesterday we had a severe thunderstorm with strong wind gusts, hail and torrential rains in my area.
The storm developed quickly.
While I was observing the falling hail, I saw the mower still mowing. Because of the fast storm development, it didn’t have time to detect rain and return to the docking station.
Nevertheless, we had luck, the hail was small and wet and only partially destroyed some cucumber leaves. Roof, panels and mower are intact. Nearby villages didn’t have that luck, the hail there was egg-sized.
Severe weather alerts in Home Assistant
I started thinking it would be nice if Home Assistant informed me somehow the weather will be severe in my area.
I found an integration(s) and HACSs add-ons that reports severe weather and can be used to trigger some events in HA:
Meteo alarm
Meteo Alarm is a binary sensor that can be added to Home Assistant. It provides weather alerts for EU and UK. Unfortunately, only manual setup is possible. So I edited configuration.yaml and added the following code:
binary_sensor: - platform: meteoalarm country: "slovenia" province: "North-East"Where did I found country and province?
Finding ‘Country’ attribute was easy. Went to Meteo Alarm RSS feeds and searched for Slovenia feed URL: https://feeds.meteoalarm.org/feeds/meteoalarm-legacy-rss-slovenia. I copied the last part: ‘slovenia’.
What about the ‘province’ attribute? I found it in RSS feed. I opened the feed and searched for region names. I found it in <title> tag, after ‘Slovenia / xxxx’
After HA restart, there is a new entity available:
The meteoalarm entity switches the states from ‘unsafe’ to ‘safe’. Great, now I can create an automation that reacts to the state change.
But firstly, I need to show it on my dashboard.
I found another HA add-on in HACS: Meteoalarm Card (by MrBartusek on GitHub) which is compatible with MeteoAlarm (and other weather alert services) entity:
I installed it directly from HACS addon.
Adding this card to HA dashboard is easy: Just add new card and search for Meteoalarm Card. The configuration seems very simple:
I like the option ‘Hide when there are no warnings’. My main dashboard now shows the card only when it is weather alert.
Weather alert automations
For now, I came up with three automations (which was the main reason I added MeteoAlarm to my HA):
Mower should return to docking station immediately when weather alarm is detected. Moreover, it should stay on the docking station and ignore mowing schedules (‘party mode’).
With everything in place, creating automation was easy:
And when the alarm is over, the party mode is off and normal mowing schedues are active again:
The next automation is pushing notifying my and my wife’s phones. This one is pretty obvious, so I’ll skip the description.
TL;DR
As I found out, HA can be used to avoid the damages, protect the property, reduce costs. That’s what I like in HA: I add automations and add-ons when it’s necessary.
Is it useful? I can not protect the garden, roof and other major things with it, but at least I can protect little things. And play with what the technology currently allows.
Thanks to all developers of this nice add-ons. At the end, everything works at it should.
The configuration of HA’s Meteo Alarm integration is not very straight-forward. It would be better if there was an UI to add and configure it. Especially selecting the country and the region. It’s clunky to search for regions in some RSS streams and then to manually add it to configuration.yaml.
https://blog.rozman.info/severe-weather-alerts-and-automations-in-home-assistant/
#alert #homeassistant #landroid #meteoalarm #mower #weather #worx
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**Severe weather alerts and automations in Home Assistant**
(link to blog)
Yesterday we had a severe thunderstorm with strong wind gusts, hail and torrential rains in my area.
The storm developed quickly.
While I was observing the falling hail, I saw the mower still mowing. Because of the fast storm development, it didn’t have time to detect rain and return to the docking station.
Nevertheless, we had luck, the hail was small and wet and only partially destroyed some cucumber leaves. Roof, panels and mower are intact. Nearby villages didn’t have that luck, the hail there was egg-sized.
Severe weather alerts in Home Assistant
I started thinking it would be nice if Home Assistant informed me somehow the weather will be severe in my area.
I found an integration(s) and HACSs add-ons that reports severe weather and can be used to trigger some events in HA:
Meteo alarm
Meteo Alarm is a binary sensor that can be added to Home Assistant. Unfortunately, only manual setup is possible. So I edited configuration.yaml and added the following code:
binary_sensor: - platform: meteoalarm country: "slovenia" province: "North-East"Where did I found country and province?
Finding ‘Country’ attribute was easy. Went to Meteo Alarm RSS feeds and searched for Slovenia feed URL: https://feeds.meteoalarm.org/feeds/meteoalarm-legacy-rss-slovenia. I copied the last part: ‘slovenia’.
What about the ‘province’ attribute? I found it in RSS feed. I opened the feed and searched for region names. I found it in <title> tag, after ‘Slovenia / xxxx’
After HA restart, there is a new entity available:
The meteoalarm entity switches the states from ‘unsafe’ to ‘safe’. Great, now I can create an automation that reacts to the state change.
But firstly, I need to show it on my dashboard.
I found another HA add-on in HACS: Meteoalarm Card (by MrBartusek on GitHub) which is compatible with MeteoAlarm (and others) entity:
I installed it directly from HACS addon.
Adding this card to HA dashboard is easy: Just add new card and search for Meteoalarm Card. The configuration seems very simple:
I like the option ‘Hide when there are no warnings’. My main dashboard now shows the card only when it is weather alert.
Weather alert automations
For now, I came up with three automations (which was the main reason I added MeteoAlarm to my HA):
Mower should return to docking station immediately when weather alarm is detected. Moreover, it should stay on the docking station and ignore mowing schedules (‘party mode’).
With everything in place, creating automation was easy:
And when the alarm is over, the party mode is off and normal mowing schedues are active again:
The next automation is pushing notifying my and my wife’s phones. This one is pretty obvious, so I’ll skip the description.
TL;DR
As I found out, HA can be used to avoid the damages, protect the property, reduce costs. That’s what I like in HA: I add automations and add-ons when it’s necessary.
Thanks to all developers of this nice add-ons. At the end, everything works at it should.
The configuration of HA’s Meteo Alarm integration is not very straight-forward. It would be better if there was an UI to add and configure it. Especially selecting the country and the region. It’s clunky to search for regions in some RSS streams and then to manually add it to configuration.yaml.
https://blog.rozman.info/severe-weather-alerts-and-automations-in-home-assistant/
#alert #homeassistant #landroid #meteoalarm #mower #weather #worx
