We're looking to buy a flail mower (slagleklipper, klepelmaaier) and found Deleks.
Their products look decent and compared to others prices are even more so. It's a stretch but maybe someone has experience with them and is willing to share their opinion?
https://www.deleks.dk/en/p/1173/flail-mower-smart-800
edit: We decided not to buy a flail mower. As to #Deleks specifically: quality appears "random". Mainly it's warranty service that would worry me as it is reported to be bad.
It's amazing how quickly your needs increase when you search the internet with pictures on.
Instead of a 60cm wide human-pushed budget mower I'm now considering whether @juliette and I need a remote controlled dandelion-battle-bot that surely can also do deep-sea mining and has more self driving autonomy than even the wildest Musk claims for Tesla.
It's 500.000 Danish kroner though. Which is above our budget of roughly 20.000.
edit: if anyone wants to invest 480k we can share it 50/50%.
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In gardening tools: we have two Stihl equipment batteries. These things are designed to last a decade of daily professional use.
I just learned they have a bluetooth module capable of sharing a bunch information: critically the total ever usage time and error states.
Apart of simple connectivity stuff like mice or cordless keyboards I think this is the first time ever I have a basic technological device where bluetooth is an actual bonus.
Btw. We decided to not buy a large machine (flail mower or otherwise).
An "Avatar style mower" would've worked to create lovely paths on our woodland and open up other overgrown areas for biodiversity. But: the machines combination of environmental impact and high initial costs made us look for an alternative.
As I was gifted the two professional grade tool batteries above we decided to buy a powerful electric brush-cutter instead. It has some limitations but should be a good trade-off.
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We got the "Stihl FSA 135". With our use it is likely to last for the rest of our life.
While it comes with a strimmer head (using nylon wire*) we'll be using it with a metal cutting disk as not to pollute the woodland with untold bits of #microplastics.
I'm looking forward to do some testing this weekend :-)
*There's no such thing as biodegradable trimmer wire. #podcast tip: the @plastisphere episode about microplastics in soil:
https://anjakrieger.com/2021/04/27/welcome-to-the-plastisphere/
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Hej @anja I just listened to the soil episode as in my memory it discussed the plastic wire (both traditional and so-called biodegradable ones) in garden mowers used in cities, gardens and forest (this issue https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article/98/5/706/8004996?login=false).
It wasn't in there though. Was this maybe discussed in another episode?
@anja Thanks. I just found some browser bookmarks and now suspect the source was... me doing an internet dive into the topic after listening to the soil episode. (...)
One day it might be an interesting episode topic in itself. The amount of plastic used in these devices is non-trivial, and they're very much used around places with food production.
Amazing slow motion zoomed in footage of a weed-eater / brush-cutter wire basically exploding into bits of microplastic after hitting another material.
Even when the wire doesn't break the plastic just flakes off.
Not something I'd want to use around my, let's say, vegetable garden.
Footage at 11:39: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1opkMO1w4U&t=699s
@Pepijn @plastisphere See, what I’m reading here is that I might need to exchange my consumer-grade Stihl weed trimmer (we call it a «whipper-snapper» in our household) with a bigger, more powerful insdustrial grade one so that I can have the possibility of having a non-plastic cutting mechanism…
See, I already have the same battery system. 🤔
Good to know, that there is an alternative between nylon "wire" and traditional scythe.
@astridpoot Yeah :-( It really sucks to have an environmental consciousness and an over-analysing brain.
I wish I could just be "big machine, makes earth go brrrrrrrrrr, hole!, it's shiny!. We'll buy it now!" But my brain doesn't allow that :(
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