Lymow Robot Mower Gets Its Real Test on This Disaster Lawn

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]All right, somewhat of an unconventional start to today's video. We are on the hunt for an extremely overgrown lawn.

[00:00:09]Oh, that's pretty good. This one's in pretty rough shape. So, let's take a look here.

[00:00:26]This is the Limo One Plus. And I think the results of what you just saw speak for itself at that abandoned house of how well and how heavyduty this mower actually is. Stick around cuz we're going to get into all the things that I really like about it and then some of the things that I think they could definitely [music] improve on. But I've been interested in this mower. I've seen it online for a while and I've really wanted to try it which is why I partnered with Limo for this video. When they reached out I was jumping at the opportunity to actually get my hands on this thing. So let's get into it. Unlike other robotic mowers that use these little razor blades, this one does not.

[00:00:58][music] It actually has traditional steel blades that you're going to find on your mower, just a bit smaller. And with that, it's doing something that traditional mowers will do, and that the way the blade is shaped, it's actually has air flow that's pulling that grass up, so you're getting a [music] nice smooth cut. But one of the things that's very common with robotic mowers is that you'll have to cut [music] twice to get all of the grass cut. And that's not the case with the Limo 1 Plus. It can cut nearly 1 and [music] 3/4 acres per day.

[00:01:29]It can climb over obstacles that are it says 2.8 in. In my experience, it actually went well above that as you can [music] see kind of in this abandoned house stuff. It was really on this like edge drop off and it handled it really well. It has [music] an RTK station that you're going to set up. It's going to use that for navigation. It has AI obstacle avoidance. And two of the coolest things about this is that it actually has a removable battery which gives me a lot of confidence [music] longterm because I always kind of worry about spending this much money and then what if the battery goes bad? The thing is built in there. This one's swappable.

[00:02:01]And [music] it mulches, which a ton of robot lawnmowers do not do. So in a lot of my B-roll footage, you're going to see it going over leaves in my lawn and those leaves [music] just kind of disappear, which is really nice. So let's drill down on the cutting system a little bit. Here I have St. Ag grass. I [music] think that's very thick. I'm by no means a lawn expert here, but it does a phenomenal job. And as I [music] showed you at that abandoned house, that was mostly St. Ag. And it can cut as low as about 1.2 in or as high as 4 in. So at that abandoned house, I had it all the way up to cut the first time and then slowly moved it down for the two subsequent cuts. But it can get very low. If you're a lawn pro, this is probably going to make you cringe. Most people would say that I probably scalp the grass, but I like it really, really low. So 1.2 in is the lowest [music] that it can go. The cutting width is 16 in. So nice and wide, especially for a robot mower here. And it does have a discharge [music] port since it is mulching. This is a very unique design.

[00:02:58]This thing kind of looks like Wall-E to me if you're familiar with that. But it has wheels underneath the deck that also raise and lower [music] and then it's going to raise and lower the entire deck from the actual robot itself. So, it's [music] not going to like dive down and give you uneven cuts. My wife and I, we've said consistently that [music] this is the most traditional mowerike cut that we've seen from a robot mower.

[00:03:21]We run this thing in the backyard, go out there and look, and uh it's beautiful. Now, there's a lot of unique things about this, not just what it looks like and the tracks, but there are a few things that it can do that I haven't seen [music] before. And one of those are the actual blade speeds. On all the other mowers that I've tested, it's just on and off, and you can't adjust that. This one has four different settings for that blade speed. So, what I was doing at the abandoned [music] house is I turn that blade speed way up.

[00:03:46]Now, that is going to, you know, reduce your battery life, of course, but at my house where I'm cutting one to two times a [music] week, I actually put it on eco and it spins them much slower because I don't need it to [music] go that fast.

[00:03:57]It's not a ton of grass. It's just kind of clipping a little bit off the top each week. And [music] so, I can use that eco mode to greatly extend that life. you can get over half an acre per charge, but again, it's going to depend on those settings pretty heavily, but you know, if the battery dies, it's going to go back to its base and it's going to [music] start charging itself.

[00:04:14]Now, I don't have a lot of hills in my area, so it's hard for me to show you just how well it [music] can do with those grades, but the concrete all around my area tends to sink and so the yard will get, you know, a few inches above that, and that just can cause all kinds of issues with robot mowers. This one just climbed up that thing, no problem. One really particular side note here. A lot of other mowers when they turn, they're not going to follow like an S shape [music] very well. It'll be like they go straight, they turn, they go straight, they turn, they go straight. This thing, the algorithm is really good for navigation, and it can follow a curve very well. And they just have a good algorithm. So, that to me was impressive and makes for much [music] more efficient cutting versus the kind of always cutting in small straight lines to make a curve. So, I'm going to touch a little bit on the app and on mapping. So, you do need the RTK station set up. I mounted mine to my fence. So, that is going to be a requirement here. And then that can't move. The base where you're charging it, you can move around without remapping.

[00:05:11][music] To map, you're basically just going to drive the perimeter of what you want to cut. And then, if you've got any no-go zones, you can drive the perimeter of those as well. Now, in the app, you have all different types of settings. Like I already mentioned, you can do the blade speed, you can do the speed of the actual mower itself. You can either pick the direction that you want it to cut or you can just say, "Hey, efficiently cut this area, which is mostly what I did."

[00:05:32][music] So, kind of like the longest runs, that's the direction that's going to go parallel with that just to be as efficient as possible. Or you can manually change the direction that [music] you want. You can also set the obstacle avoidance to just use the bumper when it bumps into something or it can use its vision. Plus, it has these ultrasonic sensors as well, so it's using that full suite of sensors to make sure that it's avoiding things. And generally, [music] it did a very good job with the things that I put in front of it. Now, I will say this thing is very beefy and feels very well built. It has an aluminum frame. That battery, it's very heavy, but I love that it is removable because if I'm thinking about wanting this thing very longterm, I would love the ability to have another [music] battery. This one is rated for 2,000 cycles, which is a lot. But, if I'm going to drop this amount of money, I would love to be able to pick up another battery. [music] And they offer them on their website as well. So, I might even get one now just to have it for if and when [music] this battery starts to go bad after those 2,000 cycles, which you should get plenty of life out of it. But being outside for me in the heat in the summertime is going to have be some wear and tear [music] on that battery. So, I love the idea of being able to swap this battery out. Um, one thing with mowing obviously is you're going to kick up tons of dust.

[00:06:42][music] And this thing is IPX6 rated, so it's going to handle rain, dust, [music] debris pretty much no problem. It does have a setting in the app where you can say, "Hey, detect the rain. Don't cut in the rain." Um, totally up to you if you want to do that or not. It could cut in the rain or it can detect [music] rain.

[00:06:58]It can go back to the base. This doesn't matter to me, but to some people this might be a con. So, typically a lot of robot mowers are very quiet. The ones with the razor blades, extremely quiet.

[00:07:07][music] This one in eco mode also extremely quiet, but because it's got those metal [music] blades, it sounds much more like a standard electric mower. It's still not loud. Even on like the the highest setting, it is still not loud, especially compared to an internal combustion one, but it is a little bit louder, but still very quiet. I would have no problem running this thing at night because it is that quiet. Another great thing about the Limo OnePlus is that they have great tutorial videos on their YouTube channel that very easily show you how to set everything up. So, if the manual is unclear or if the app was unclear or anything like that, they have a bunch of like 60-second to 2-minute videos that are just like, "Hey, this is how you set it up." And that's how I got up and running very quickly. Now, let's talk about some of the drawbacks of this thing. And [music] this is not particular to the Limo One Plus, but if you don't have WiFi coverage all over your lawn or even where the base is, then you're going to have to be within Bluetooth range or you're going to have to make sure that you get the one that has the LTE module so that it can communicate. [music] You don't need that. There's been other mowers where they don't have like cell service built in and so you have to make sure you have Wi-Fi or you're within Bluetooth range to set them up and then once they start mowing, they might be out of range. Like I have one at my parents house and I can't check up on it for them because it's out of Wi-Fi range and so that's kind of frustrating for me. So this one has uh cell service built in and I also am a such a weirdo that I have Wi-Fi coverage pretty much all over my lawn. But if you don't have Wi-Fi coverage, you don't get the the cell module, the LTE module with this thing, you're going to have to be within Bluetooth range to set it up. Of course, you can put it on a schedule and it'll just run and go, but you're not going to get notifications if it got stuck or something like [music] that unless you had that Wi-Fi coverage or you have that cell module so that it can communicate.

[00:08:57]Again, this is not unique to this model.

[00:09:00]This is something that all robot mowers, any robot mower you got is going to have this this issue because it's going to be dependent on your Wi-Fi system or you getting a model that has that LTE cell module in the device. Now, in the app, it has multiszone management. So you can add up to 80 zones that would cover 15 acres. It's not going to cover that in a day, but you could have it rotate through that. It can do about [music] 1 and 3/4 acres in one day, but you can set up tons of zones and have it cut a bunch of different stuff per day. You can also customize per zone how fast you want it to go, the height, the direction, all that [music] stuff per individual zone. And it's got a few tricks up its sleeve for theft protection. It has a PIN code that you have to enter. Of course, if it's connected to that cell module or Wi-Fi, it has real-time monitoring. And you can also set up geo fence alert. So, if it goes outside of this fence, you will be alerted. A few minor complaints here. I wish you could change all of this, the mowing settings when it's already started. It's not that big of a deal.

[00:10:00]You can change the speed and the height, but you can't change like the obstacle avoidance settings and the overlapping of the runs that it is doing once it's already started. Again, this is so ticky tack. It's not a big deal, but uh that would be a nice to have. Also, other mowers out there sometimes in their apps, what they'll include is that every time it cuts, it can change the direction that it's cutting, so you don't get a spot that maybe it misses, but it continually misses that week over week that grows really long, whatever.

[00:10:29]That would be a really cool feature for Limo to include. And again, like every robotic mower that is currently on the market, you're still going to have to string trim and blow after it cuts to really get everything. But this is going to do 98% of the mowing for you. And then you'll have to do a little bit of string trimming here and there. And it does I mean, generally, I've been so impressed with that thing, especially taking it to that overgrown grass. That grass was somewhere between 8 in and a foot tall, and watching that thing just mow down through it was awesome. You also can, of course, have it run on a schedule and run autonomously. But if there's an area that it's having trouble with or that you want to go cut just, you know, one time or something like that, you can control it through the app and just manually mow if you wanted to.

[00:11:13]I've done that a few times just for fun.

[00:11:15]And you can have it go really fast and you can have it go slow and you can, you know, mess with all those settings. But generally, I've been so impressed with this thing. Again, I [music] think this is the closest that I've seen to an actual mower with the job that it does.

[00:11:27]does. I think it does an amazing job, especially for someone like me who's cutting very low and I have trees that drop leaves and it just mulches through that stuff. And Limo has done a great job with that navigational algorithm and how smooth this thing can turn and follow curves. Also, love that. This is going to be my current daily driver for a while. So, I'm very excited about using it. I've used it a bunch so far.

[00:11:49]But stick around because I'll do some updated short videos letting you know like how it does long term cuz this is a very short term. I've only had this thing for a month or so. And of course, [music] links to everything will be in the description below. If you are interested in this mower, I think it's awesome. Definitely give it a look if you are in the market for a robot mower.

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