This Robot Lawn Mower will take your job! Luba awd 5000 Mows PATTERNS, HILLS, and MOWS TALL!

[@DaveAtUofL]

Mowing the patterns are great. Now They just need one that's big enough to do 4 - 4.5" HOC. I got TTTF, and in the summer I'd end up with just a brown lawn or a high water bill at 2.5" lol.

[@pestandlawnginja]

With a daily mow the 2.8” would be fine

[@shanew7361]

I agree mow high when it's dry and hot, so many morons hire companies that don't give a shit and mow to short and end up having dirt to mow every week. Amazes me how stupid and lazy people are.

[@myopenmind527]

I’ve had elite for 3 years now. Best investment ever. The lawn looks perfect every day. Cost very little to rum. We have 3/4 acre.

[@pestandlawnginja]

Rad!

[@stevehawkins4776]

I tried to read through the comments and I didn't see any mention of this (sorry if I missed it)... if you want the alternating patterns, use the customize function and you can change the lines in 10 degree increments. Hopefully a future firmware update will make it a bit easier, but I use this as a work-around for now.

[@pestandlawnginja]

Thanks for sharing!

[@skdgaming4075]

Thanks for the review! I’ve been searching for a new robot mower recently.

[@pestandlawnginja]

i've got updated videos about this new models. great product.

[@PNWLawnGuy]

Seems like all the lawn KZbinrs this year were contacted to promote Luba and Irrigreen sprinklers 😂😂😂

[@MRM5J]

Agreed kinda sad

[@pestandlawnginja]

Soo true

[@pestandlawnginja]

Why is it sad to unbox and try out tech?

[@TheCreamRisesToTheTop]

@@pestandlawnginja just being honest here… it’s kinda sad to see you so enthusiastically review a $2800 rc car with some razor blades attached to the bottom and pretend like anyone is going to buy one

[@pestandlawnginja]

@@TheCreamRisesToTheTop interesting perception. Thanks for sharing

[@danhtrinh1769]

I have a LUBA. If you cut the yard every other day instead of every day it will be longer before you have to replace your battery. Batteries have a fixed number of charge\discharge cycles before they need to be replaced.

[@pestandlawnginja]

That’ll work

[@kennethbutler613]

With the original front tires on the Luba 5000. In KZbin reviews they stated when the mower turns it does a tank style turn and tears up the lawn. I have seen KZbin reviews that state Mammotion sent updates to the program, and now the Luba 5000 makes 3-point Y turns and does not tear up the lawn. The problem was totally resolved. It this true.

[@pestandlawnginja]

testing that out now. hopefully someone else chimes in.

[@sarahlewis8928]

Love this thing!! I can see how the cost is not as prohibitive as people are commenting. Considering the cost of gas, mower maintenance with parts cost, plus a good riding mower starts at around $3,000, I’m sold! My only concern is about theft. How do you keep it from getting stolen out of your yard? 🤔

[@pestandlawnginja]

It has anti theft to it. The device is rendered useless when stolen. However that doesn’t stop people from doing it just to do it

[@wkrp10splayer19]

yards tend to have one or more of: branches, twigs, leaves, acorns, pine cones, storm debris, ...

[@trevormuggeridge4560]

First Aussie 😁. Ginja , the Luba Tool is an Ai that will take over and you will be assigned to be inside watching reruns of the Jerry Springer show. 😬

[@GregNickoloff]

The unedited version?

[@pestandlawnginja]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kennorman1142]

Seeing more and more videos on these robomowers, from lawn channels no less. I'm going to like and comment for the algo cus I love the lawn ginja but I couldn't be less interested in a product. I love cutting my lawn, it's my alone time, it's exercise, it's satisfying. I wouldn't want to give that all up to a $4000 robot mower that's not going to do as good of a job as I would. That being said it looks about as good as the others tbh

[@pestandlawnginja]

👊🏻😁 my man. Thanks for the comment. All these robot mowers are a ton of fun. Do they warrant the price. Time will tell

[@stevenbastian3882]

I echo your thoughts, Ken Norman. I love the Lawn Ninja but have no interest in this product.

[@pestandlawnginja]

@@stevenbastian3882 appreciate the support

[@jackj5591]

Wow amazing how technology is moving so fast. My main barrier to entry on these robo mowers was burying a cable/wire around my perimeter of the lawn. Next barrier to entry is price. I paid $3,500 for a Samsung DLP TV in 2004 and those eventually came dow to hundreds of dollars, now they don’t make them anymore. When I can get a quality robo mower for under $1k, I’m all in

[@racylaserjet]

The 1000 is $1,899 less after promotions and discounts. Most yards probably do not need a 5000. There's also the 3000 as well.

[@pestandlawnginja]

totally true about the tv prices! fingers crossed the price wars begin.

[@Troy-Echo]

You forgot one highlight of auto-mowers. If you keep your lawn cut daily or every other day, you can fight back many weeds that require the taller height to survive. My Zenith Zoysia lawn can be cut as low as 0.75 inches which would kill a LOT of weeds that herbicides haven't taken out. And if you have some nutsedge or other grassy weed that is hidden in there, with the constant mowing, you'll never see them. At that height, it may even push back clover. I've looked at automated mowers in the past and they were all perimeter wire driven and that's a PITA feature, so this GPS driven mower is a nice version. My dogs are off leash in the fenced in back yard so making a hole in the fence isn't an option for automatically moving from front to back, but carrying it by hand to avoid mowing my 10,000 sq. ft. back yard is worth it. I'm not sure I'll love the price, but I definitely love the technological advancements since the last I looked into these mowers. You also didn't cover if this could mow in the rain, or if cool season grasses will cause clumping. I doubt rain or clumping would matter with constant mowing as it didn't with the older models. I'm assuming mowing Zoysia would reduce the service life between sharpening or changing blades due to the grass density.

[@jmenta77]

Your content is great and has been very helpful. This thing seems like a neat gadget, but i would not give up being outside and doing man work with a tru cut. This is for guys that do not enjoy getting their hands dirty.

[@pestandlawnginja]

It’s a great machine. It’s particularly valuable when one goes out of town

[@Jessica-wq7mj]

Hi! You are my favorite lawn person to follow! I need some advice and while it’s of a different topic, I’m putting my question here and hopefully you see it and have time to respond. I’ll try to be brief: I’m in northern New England and my yard was decimated by grubs this year. I planned to be super proactive about my yard but then I spent the entire spring trying to deal with my grub issue and reseeding the bald patches. The weeds were opportunistic and now my yard is mostly just weed. We’ve also been hammered with rain for several weeks and the soil will not dry out. My question is, by the time we get a break in the rain it will be late June. My plan was to use post emergents to kill as many weeds as possible and then dethatch my yard because the thatch is extreme. After dethatching I was wondering I’m I’m too late to lay down a pre-emergent given it will be quite warm here in a few weeks? I will also need to continue trying to reseed a good portion of my yard in the fall but I understand that’s when I should be putting down peemergent for best outcomes. I’m new to this, hope you can help!

[@pestandlawnginja]

If you have tttf or ryegrass you’ll be fine to seed over the summer. As for pre emergents they get dramatically less effective the closer the ground temps reach 75 degrees and above. Hope that helps. We commonly don’t use pre emergents when the daytime temps get above 85 degrees or above for the rest of the summer. And as they come down in the fall we resume

[@Aerialphotovito]

very cool lawn drone !

[@pestandlawnginja]

👊🏻🤣

[@DStek42]

My challenge with tall fescue that we have in the north is unless you have sufficient updraft from the mower blades, the grass doesn't get cut long and instead falls over. Any thoughts?

[@pestandlawnginja]

I didn’t get enough time to test in directly on fescue. If you set the height of cut at 2.8” or so I still believe the blades of the grass will be rigid enough. I was cutting ryegrass, which commonly is very flaccid, at 3” down to 2.8” without issues. Given tall fescue is commonly more rigid than ryegrass I think it would be fine

[@baxt1412]

Likewise I would also imagine possibly using a rotary mower to get HoC slightly below the height you want for your fescue will get it more upright and then setting this robot to the height you want it to ultimately be at and I’d imagine it will only take off millimeters at a time and stay upright especially if mowing 3-7 times per week

[@DD-rb6hi]

Freaking Awesome man wish I could have one. $2,800. No way ill pass.

[@pestandlawnginja]

Its a fun machine for what it is. its not cheap!

[@brookekathryn1980]

Needs to alternate angles and cut to 3.5". After that I'm in!

[@pestandlawnginja]

👊🏻😃

[@covertpuppytwo3857]

You can alternate the angles... but it doesn't do 3.5".

[@brookekathryn1980]

@@covertpuppytwo3857 No, I read the manual. It only does left right or up down. It doesn't do angular cuts in either direction. Essentially it creates a checkerboard but it won't chriss or cross cut anything...

[@MRM5J]

I need it to cut at 4 inches and open a gate

[@pestandlawnginja]

The gate opening feature would be awesome 👏

[@Firehazard159]

Is your gate smart/connected? You can use IFTTT to connect them, potentially. I have a side garage door with access to the backyard and a front garage door with access to the front yard, so I plan on using homeassistant - not exactly sure how the mower integration will work yet but the idea is "When the backyard is finished, open garage doors, pathway to the front yard, close garage doors" - then when the transition finishes for the front yard zones, it'll return back to the garage and park. If those kind of detailed triggers don't work, then defaulting to "If Luba is active, open garage doors" and then close them upon luba finishing/charging.

[@prafulrameshkesharekeshare3308]

Great review! But are there any cheaper models out there?

[@pestandlawnginja]

yes, but..... mammotion offers multiple options now and there 1000 is not only cheaper, still loaded with options

[@user-kx1qz6lh5q]

I keep loosing wifi and I don't know why and sometimes the luba 5000 goes into a fit and don't stay on line it goes all different directions other than that its great a fun working toy lol

[@covertpuppytwo3857]

Luba doesn't use wifi for location and making lines... it uses satellites. I suggest you find a better location for the RTK satellite antenna.

[@pestandlawnginja]

i agree with covertputtpytwo. its most likely an issue with the signal strength from the satelites to your base station.

[@TheCreamRisesToTheTop]

If it’s anything like the robot vacuums, the time saved will be spent on extra maintenance.

[@pestandlawnginja]

Love my wyze vacuums. Haven’t had issues with maintenance. Time will tell on these mowers

[@covertpuppytwo3857]

maintenance on the mower itself? Actually, the Luba requires very little maintenance... in fact, my rider mower required far more maintenance.

[@marcon5723]

Lumba newer models all come with the omni directional front wheels so u don't get any more ruts

[@pestandlawnginja]

The 5000 still has the normal fronts

[@covertpuppytwo3857]

@@pestandlawnginja Only in the US for now... the 5000 sold in Europe have the omni directional front wheels.

[@yoko180]

My dad needs a robot mower that can mow up to 2 acres surrounded by tall trees. He’s in his 70s and I would like to see him get rid of his riding mower. Doesn’t sound like this would work for that though.

[@pestandlawnginja]

The issue really is the distance off the base station to the furthest point in the yard.

[@thecappy]

Ginja any update? I’m thinking of getting one.

[@pestandlawnginja]

coming soon! I've heard rumors of a system update that makes it more gentle. I've currently installed the unit on a bigger lawn and testing things out. navigation wise its awesome. as long as you have good signal strength you'll be happy.

[@dubrpanda1636]

Just wait till these mowers inherit the autonomous tech that's in cars, itll have its own set of eyes to see trees, flower beds, etc etc.

[@pestandlawnginja]

That’d be awesome

[@chrisdc1388]

How does it compare to your Navimow?

[@pestandlawnginja]

I'll have another video about the differences between the two. I feel the rtk unit provides a better signal on the luba keeping the boundaries tighter. the wheels on the navimow are lighter and don't dig in like the wheels on the luba do.

[@AdamPamula]

Which one gets closer to the edge to limit the amount you need to do with a trimmer? Does segways offset blade get closer?

[@AdamPamula]

And how did it handle under the trampoline relative to the Segway?

[@user-tj4un3fn7g]

Appreciate the review, but I’m still not entirely convinced about the price.

[@pestandlawnginja]

It's a great price

[@shanew7361]

Will this mow over small twigs and dog 💩?

[@pestandlawnginja]

Small twigs may get stuck here and there in the machine. It’ll mow over the poop but it can become super messy 😅 I don’t recommend it

[@shanew7361]

@@pestandlawnginja Hard pass this sounds like a piece of 💩

[@mattb9664]

This mower looks like it's begging to be connect to an Xbox controller! Pretty cool!

[@pestandlawnginja]

💯 👊🏻😆

[@jgm3796]

Any robo reel mowers out there?

[@pestandlawnginja]

👊🏻

[@ubtravels7646]

*** where do I go to buy a Lawn Slayer T shirt. I fear you are out of them. ***❤

[@pestandlawnginja]

I have them on printful. I’m getting a new url. Post soon!

[@trplay1]

How is the coverage on the front yard?

[@pestandlawnginja]

It gets most all of it. I have to weed wack the edge around the sw side and the boarder fence.

[@Fishneck10]

Update please

[@comingtofull-ageinchrist6736]

As if man doesn’t already have enough remote control items to promote laziness lol! Yeah, no one wants to come home from work and work more but that’s what keeps us healthy 😂

[@pestandlawnginja]

Who doesn’t love work after work

[@grandtheftaudio3]

How much you want for your old mower? I want to hear a demonstration from someone that isnt getting paid or a free mower by the company. Is that you?

[@TheCreamRisesToTheTop]

5:12 no it is not

[@grandtheftaudio3]

@@TheCreamRisesToTheTop ok. Thanks.

[@pestandlawnginja]

They gave it to me. No restrictions or contract obligating what can or cannot be said

[@grandtheftaudio3]

@@pestandlawnginja oh, ok. How much does it cost?

[@pestandlawnginja]

@@grandtheftaudio3 they’re not cheap. This one on Amazon is $2800.

[@atlantasailor1]

I had two robomowers and had to ditch them. The batteries only lasted for two seasons and then needed replacing at $200. The cost of electricity was nothing but the batteries cost a fortune. I have a gravel driveway in front of House as well as concrete driveway. Also I have a lake. I would love to try if yiu could ask it to cross an area without the blades spinning. I have some 4 acres of land but not all is mowed.

[@pestandlawnginja]

4 acres is no joke! That's a ton of space. this does have the ability to use a walking path without the blades spinning.

[@brianbanks3044]

looks like the mower got loose on your beard....WTH

[@pestandlawnginja]

😂😂😂

[@HeyMichaelLeo]

If this wasn't given to you, would you spend almost 3k on this it?

[@pestandlawnginja]

Love this question. I’ve thought a lot about it. If I had never had one it would be a hard no because of d never understand the value. There’s so much freedom not mowing. Here’s the deal. If I was already paying a service to mow my lawn I’d by one. Worst case scenario it craps out two years and one day , out of warranty🙃. At that it’s paid for itself. For those that have a mower and you like the mower you have and mowing every week. You’re out 30min to 1 hour of your life. 30 mows per season if you’re weekly mowing. If you’re like me I’m mowing 5 days per week or 150 mows. Cumulatively saves a lot of time. Cut quality is decent. Maintenance so far has been low and it works as it should. I’m very practice but also a huge tight wide. If I had a lawn mower on the way out I’d buy it. Price of a new mower ranges for $400 for something ok not great and $1200 plus for something great. Considering the cost of fuel, oil, blade changes etc for the next year that’s where the pragmatic side of me says….. ok it probably worth it. If I have a lawn mower that I enjoy, which I do, this makes it tough. I enjoy mowing and I enjoy the striping. It’s like man who makes fire 🔥 🤣. Cost of maintenance, gas, sharpening blades over an entire season might be $300-500. Worst case in two years $1000 if you have some serious issues. So to add $2000 on top of that….. tough question. You’d need to be in love with technology and wanting to free up time

[@HeyMichaelLeo]

@@pestandlawnginja great response, a little wordy, but Look I appreciate your time. I will add only this... I suspect that in a year this model new will be ½ the price or less. For obvious reasons.. "Cheers"

[@ryanesposito5755]

$2,800 for a rotary box cutter. No thanks. My zoysia lawn would break that thing in 1 cut. 🙄

[@pestandlawnginja]

Thanks for watching Ryan. I knew some Esposito’s from Brazil back in the day. Not a super common last name. Have a good night

[@ryanesposito5755]

@@pestandlawnginja love your channel and videos, keep up the great work. Believe it or not, Esposito is very common surname from Italy. It actually originated as a name given to orphan babies dropped off at the church, meaning “exposed” My grandparents came to NY via Ellis Island and New York is loaded with the name. Back when the white pages still existed there were like 8 pages of us! Lol. Anyway, enjoy your content. I’m sticking with gas!

[@pestandlawnginja]

@@ryanesposito5755 makes sense it’s Italian. Too funny that I only know them from Brazil 🤣🤣🤣

[@covertpuppytwo3857]

I started planting Zoysia in my backyard a couple of years ago. Really love the zoysia! It's now a large part of my backyard... And my Luba works really well on it...

[@Bluebloods7]

Most of the world is carpeted, and one day, we will do the cleaning.

[@pestandlawnginja]

I love carpet

[@rodbtelenetbe]

This is just a commercial?

[@pestandlawnginja]

an unboxing and limited review. hope that helps clarify.

[@I3arbarian]

Another KZbinr pushing this lawn robot thing. Surprise.

[@pestandlawnginja]

😂😂😂😂

[@red32303]

My Luba will not charge. Has never cut grass. Customer support hasn’t responded in four days. Tired of waiting. Am canceling the credit charge Friday if they haven’t responded. Great idea, terrible execution, terrible customer service

[@pestandlawnginja]

Thanks for sharing.

[@kevinsolomita672]

Not u2

[@pestandlawnginja]

Second one

[@kevinsolomita672]

@PestandLawnGinja lawn care nut had a video other day about robot mowers. Some of us cut grass for a living lol

[@pestandlawnginja]

@@kevinsolomita672 I bet. There’s a lot of people trying them out right now. Europe has been using them for years. I don’t think it’ll effect lawn mowing jobs. Edging will still be a necessity even with people who have these mowers.

[@kevinsolomita672]

@@pestandlawnginja just breaking stones. Love your videos homie

[@pestandlawnginja]

@@kevinsolomita672 👊🏻😁 I don’t take offense . I hear yah

[@johnzehrbach820]

How lazy can you get?

[@pestandlawnginja]

Hold my beer 🍺

[@shanew7361]

Most Americans are obese pretty much sums it up.