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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The Mownster tyre needed testing and I wanted to try if this works. The manual says no, but the manual is wrong about many things, including how to assemble the machine 😆

Worked really well, although the leaves must be dry. Set mowing height high so the grass isn't bothered and simply drive over, vacuuming up the leaves and slightly chopping them.

I only did the area where we walk alot, because they get quite slippery in the rain. Dropped one load in the little kitchen compost and the rest as piles under some trees in the orchard further away where they can stay until spring.

Maybe some hedgehog will like that.

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