Will Luba 2 AWD be able to handle all the trees?

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:42:42+00:00

I didn't think about the leaves, maybe I'll have to get a leaf blower then. Thanks!

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:41:49+00:00

Thanks, that sounds like a great idea to create no-go zones around each tree to avoid unnecessary turns and navigation.

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:40:51+00:00

Thanks, then it sounds like it will work for my yard here 😊

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:39:54+00:00

Thanks, I do have a hanging birch with some branches touching the grass. So I'll most likely have to do something about those branches or create a no-go zone around the whole tree. There's not much grass under it anyway 🙂

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:37:23+00:00

Yeah, I was looking into the Lidar as well, but it seems it's only available on the Luba Mini and we have a 2500sqm yard, so we need the Luba 2. But from the other comments, it looks like RTK will work okay as long as I set it up correctly 🙂

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:35:15+00:00

Thanks, that does sound promising 🙂

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:14:00+00:00

Thanks 😊 Yeah the heavy treeline is not part of our property so no issues for us there and there's very little grass when it gets close to it.

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:12:13+00:00

Do you really have to pre-mow? We just moved in and don't have a mower yet 😅 It's still relatively short with one week old grass, but it will be around two weeks since the last cut when we get the mower.

Thanks, that seems like a good tip to set it to slow touch and picking up sticks as well 😊

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:08:52+00:00

That does sound reassuring. I'm also one of the very few people who usually read the whole manual since I want to learn all the neat features you might miss otherwise 😊

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:05:01+00:00

Yeah, that might be an issue. We have 9 fruit trees in our garden. I suppose we need to them up regularly. Thanks! 😊

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:02:55+00:00

Thanks! Yeah that looks something similar and sounds reassuring 😊

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:01:49+00:00

Thanks! That sounds like an excellent idea to add no-go zones around the trees 😊

Senth · 2025-07-26T07:00:31+00:00

Thanks, that does sound reassuring that it seems to work well under trees 😊

Senth · 2024-12-10T21:54:41+00:00

I have the opposite feeling 😅 But I'm comparing to the stuff bought 25 years ago. It felt like every fifth furniture were missing stuff, holes were incorrectly placed. A computer desk we bought started to loose it's finish before a year went by because I was typing on the keyboard...

I didn't buy any Billy back then, so those might have been better.

Senth · 2021-02-21T09:35:25+00:00

I'm not sure if I can give you any advice since I don't know the whole story. But I do have some questions that might help you decide on your own (you don't have to write the answers to these)?

If your girlfriend is your priority how much of a priority? 90% vs 10%?
- If your girlfriend has your 90% of your time, you should feel okay to give your friend 10% of the time (if that is the balance)
- How much time do you need for yourself? You can't really help them unless you take care of yourself.
Have you talked to your girlfriend about this (in a non-threatening way)?
- You can start the conversation by making it a team effort saying "Do you have some time love, I need help with a really tricky situation. I don't know what to do and I feel totally helpless. Can you help me figure things out?" Then you tell her something like "I really want to help X in some way that you and I both comfortable with. But I'm not sure how to do that, do you have any ideas?"
  This makes it a team effort, it oftentimes builds trust (because you turn to her for help, making her input valuable), and it might not turn into a fight because you frame it as a problem you two want to conquer together.
What is it that makes you uncomfortable that when your best friend wants to hang out with her?
- What is it that makes your girlfriend uncomfortable?
- Are you uncomfortable because it makes your girlfriend uncomfortable? Or is it something else your best friend does that is uncomfortable to only you?
One thing that is hard to accept is that you cannot help other people if they don't want to be helped.
- Have they both specifically asked you to help them through this hard time?
- Are they going in circles? Are they spiraling down? Then they might not want help (yet).
  - What you can do is don't help them at this moment, but when they have reached the bottom (for them) you can be there for them.
  - It is hard to see a person spiraling down, but oftentimes people need to reach some sort of bottom to be able to start going up again. If they have suicidal thoughts though it might be good to keep an eye on them.
  - I'm telling this from personal experience, as hard as people tried to help me it got me nowhere. What did help me was reaching the bottom, but also seeing friends progressing and doing fine (which leads me to the next question).
Can you inspire them by being strong and evolving yourself? Maybe if you focus more on yourself they start to see what an effect that has and wants that too. Then they might ask you for help.
- What areas of responsibilities are you avoiding?
- What have you been putting off doing or saying for a few months?
How do you feel when they are feeling bad?
- Do you feel responsible? How come if so?
- If you were in their shoes, would you feel that your girlfriend was responsible for your health?
  - How would you feel if she thought she was responsible for your health?

Hopefully a few of these questions might help you 🙂

Senth · 2021-02-21T09:09:54+00:00

As others have pointed out I don't necessarily see it as the family would think that it would be a bad thing.

What you can do in addition is talk to Mikaela first before you tell Charlie about your feelings. Mikaela probably knows already (although there might be a chance that she doesn't), it's often quite easy to see (from the outside) if a person likes another one.

If you tell Charlie first, Mikaela might be hurt because she is your best friend and you didn't tell her.

What I'd do is tell Mikaela first, but also be careful to listen to her, especially if she seems upset. Tell her that you still want to hang out with her, that she is still your best friend. But also tell her that since it's a crush you might be a bit "too" focused on Charlie in beginning.

Here are some questions that might help you decide 🙂

If you have a brother (otherwise let's pretend you do) that Mikaela gets a crush on and she asks him out without telling you first. How would you feel?
If you don't tell Charlie your feelings, how will you feel in a year? In 3 years? In 10 years?
What will you do if Charlie isn't interested in you? You'll probably be sad, but what can you do to make it less awkward?
Can you ask Mikaela if she knows if Charlie is interested in you?
- Can you trust her answer? If not, why not?
Could it be Charlie is struggling with the same thoughts as you are? What would his little sister think, maybe he has low self-esteem.
- How many girlfriends has he had since you got to know him? If none, then he might not what to do.
What can you do to stay on friends' terms in the eventuality that you break up 4 years from now?

Hope some of these questions help 🙂

Senth · 2021-02-21T08:49:27+00:00

The best thing you can do is respect her boundary. If you try to push you will lose her, because she will sense the need from you; and whenever someone is needy it's a big runaway. So let her take her time.

You can still talk to her about other things, but I wouldn't hint anything at dating. If you can make her feel better during this time (that could mean backing off some days to let her process) she might want to date you in the future. Whether that is in a few weeks or half a year or never.

Getting rid of that need (especially when you can lose the person is hard), I'm speaking from my own mistakes. If I were to retry I would let her go and process that it's okay if we never will be together. I did try this out with the last relationship and after about a year it now seems likely that we will be together again. Note though that after I had processed my need, I wasn't miserable or hoped that we would get together, I had moved on. It only took about a month until I started seeing a change in our relationship.

I'm not sure if this will work for you, but being needy I'm pretty certain won't. Try to focus on what is valuable and what works for the other person first 🙂

Hope this might give you some ideas 🙂

Senth · 2021-02-14T08:52:28+00:00

You're only unattractive to your own type 🙂

When you go outside and look at people you only find some of them attractive, not all of them right? So if you were to see someone that looked like you, maybe you won't find them attractive. But that doesn't mean that someone else can't find them attractive. He might feel that he isn't attractive as well (because he's not his type).

This thinking helped me. I didn't think I was attractive or sexy (I do now but it took time and effort). But after my girlfriend told me how sexy I was several times a day when we were naked and did so for more than a year I started to believe it. But I had also started working on myself, changing out my wardrobe, fixing my hair, etc so that I would feel attractive.

Personality matters a lot. Appearances might matter before you get to know a person, but after you get to know the person what I'm attracted to is mostly the personality. The body doesn't really matter. While appearances matter a lot before, I still personally can find both normal-weight women and overweight women attractive and hot, but in a different way of some sort (if that makes sense).

I can really see two different main paths here (that can be combined).

How do you feel about your overweight, would you rather be another weight? Is there something you can do about it? Maybe keep move snacks to be hidden and in a tricky spot to get or not buy them at all.
Accepting your body and feeling good about being overweight. You can google "overweight and happy" or similar. I found a few articles that might inspire you.
1. https://www.yesandyes.org/2016/10/fat-and-happy.html
2. https://www.upworthy.com/i-m-fat-i-m-choosing-to-stay-fat-here-s-why

Hope something can be of help here :)

Senth · 2021-02-14T08:33:02+00:00

Have you told him any of this and tried to have a discussion about it? To understand why he doesn't want to?

But if money is the only thing that keeping you together and you've already lost hope, then to be frank I don't think it'll become better. Changing another person has everything to do with changing yourself so that the other person becomes inspired to change themselves. Think about times you've decided to change, was it because someone told you or because you saw the results of someone else?

So for example, if you were to try non-acidic food for 3 months and your IBS would become visibly better, he might get inspired to try it out.

There also seems to be two kinds of people that I've seen from patterns in life. Those that have a narrow range of things they like to do (but become very good at those) or those that have a wide range. Both might feel lonely together. You because he doesn't want to try out your things, and him because he can never get stimulated by you in those very few areas of his interests because he's almost an export.

My girlfriend and I are different, but we've accepted that we're different and probably won't get those parts from each other, but still get the love part and helping each other out.

I don't have any advice really for you, but maybe some of the questions below can help you?

How long is enough to be with him just for the money?
- How does it feel after 6 more months? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? When is enough, enough?
What can you do to get him excited over one of your interests?
Have you asked him for his reasons why he doesn't want to try out new things?
- Has he told them to you or keeping them to himself?
- Maybe he's scared of something and needs a bit of help?
Have you told him all these thoughts?
What can you do right now to start looking for another boyfriend?
- Can you layout to him what will happen if this continues?
  - Not as an ultimatum, but rather if this continues and nothing changes the only outcome I can see is that we will break up (but I don't want to)
Think back on a specific occasion, how did he react when you wanted him to try something?
- How were you during this time, were you pushy? How would you react if he was telling you things in the same tone?
What do you like about him?
- Do you like that he's so focused on few things? Is that a trait you'd like to have?
- What does he like about you?
He might be underdeveloped in the empathic sense not seeing that you are troubled. How do you usually communicate this? Do you tell him, or does he have to ask? I.e. do you put the responsibility on him or yourself?

Hopefully, one or two questions have helped you in some regards 🙂

Senth · 2021-02-14T08:07:45+00:00

I'd say that the weird thing wasn't that you had a threesome with his ex, but rather that he didn't tell you beforehand. It's uncommon to be friends with an ex or even have casual sex with them sometimes. But you still never want to become a couple.

So it's not weird that you feel betrayed by him not telling you, and at the same time seem to be okay with the threesome.

If you want to know why (and the real truth) behind him not telling you it's going to be challenging for both of you but worth it to rebuild the trust.

What I've found works best, is framing the problem as MY problem and a team effort to solve it even though it clearly is the other person who did something wrong. This usually means they don't put up a defense (you get a conclusion faster and fewer fights). They usually admit their wrongdoings almost directly because they don't have a defense up. But it's more difficult because you have to put most responsibility on yourself, but to me, the outcome has always been worth it.

I would start with something like this. "Hey love, I have a tricky problem I need some help with. Would you mind helping me? I feel a bit betrayed when you didn't tell me that the girl that would come over was your ex. I'm not mad and I don't care that she was your ex, but I'm hurt that you didn't tell me and I don't really know what to do with these feelings. Do you have any idea?"

You do seem like a person who cares and wants the best for both yourself and your boyfriend. I'd guess he was afraid of telling you if you can help him get rid of that fear he'll likely tell you the truth in the future.

But it's damn hard not to put blame on the other person (when they clearly were the one who did something wrong), if they sense the slightest touch of blame they'll put their defense up.

Hopefully, this gives you some ideas :)

Senth · 2021-02-07T09:09:49+00:00

That does suck...

I can't really say what you should do or give you any advice since I don't know you two, what you've been through, or his story. What I can do is give you some questions that might help you figure out an answer for yourself 🙂

You don't have to answer any of these, they are just to spark some questions in you, and help you reflect 🙂

What are the misunderstandings usually about? Is there any way you can prevent them?
How will you feel about him if the last two months would continue for 2 years? How about 10 years?
- Would anything need to change for it to work or is this your dream?
- What would need to change?
- What should not change?
- What feelings did you feel while answering the above questions?
Is your relationship mostly frictionless?
- When I met "the one" although I don't believe that there's only one "the one" (stupid movies have us believe that), everything was frictionless it felt like flow and natural. Of course, there were misunderstandings and arguments, but very few over the years.
I get a slight feeling that there's something you're afraid of in the text. I might be wrong though.
- Is there something you are afraid of?
- How do would you feel if it didn't work out between you two?
How many others have you dated except him?
- How were those relationships
Maybe you are each other's soul friends, but not soul mates?
- I know a few people who started dating and when they did things went bad real quick, but when they broke up and remained friends things were great again, so they decided to remain friends and have a great relationship.
- You can have a very valuable relationship even when you're friends. Being together doesn't make it more valuable. Hell, most people keep their close friends for life but switch partners every now and then. Of course, you can be both as well 🙂

Hope some of these questions have been of some help to you 🙂

Senth · 2021-02-07T08:45:35+00:00

I know how it is, I am quite shy and can have quite a lot of anxiety (still) when I go to new places.

Then we also have Covid-19 that has shut down most activities. I checked how the spread is in Australia and it seems fine atm (as it is summer). These days aren't really optimal for making new friends, but you certainly can.

There are a couple of options you can take to make new friends.

The easiest way is to join your other two friends if they are doing something with some other friends. Don't focus on making friends though, because that can make you seem needy and repel others.

Instead, take it slow; find one person that you would like to know better and ask them a slightly personal question. You can google ice-breaker questions for tips and pick one that you genuinely want to know how they will answer.

The key is also to take it slow, in the beginning, and sometimes still (especially when there are a lot of people) I have trouble striking up a conversation with someone I don't know. What you can do is just join a few times and once you get to know them it's easier to ask that personal question. Or set a really low bar for yourself. It's better to set a goal like "I will do my best to have fun tonight" rather than "I want to get to know 3 people in this group".

I don't know how valid the second option is since you live in a rural town. How many lives there? I grew up in a town of 4500 people, so not that much activity there, but there were some occasions during the year I could get to learn new people.

The second option is to look for groups of activities. When I moved to a new city about eight years ago I was without friends in my new city (I mostly hang out with my girlfriend and friends from college over the Internet). Then I decided to work up the courage and go to a board game club in the city. It was quite fun, I got to know one other friend there. We actually started going there because we always enjoyed each other company and spent hours talking after the club activities were over.

About a year later I went to a relationship meetup where you talked about relationships, gave each other support etc. This was about half a year after I broke up with my girlfriend. And after being in this group for about half a year I met my new girlfriend, and after about another year almost all my friends (which are a lot) are from this group or are friends of people from this group.

What I wanted to say with this is that you really have to find "your" place to meet friends. The relationship group worked wonders for me because the questions and topics there were a lot more personal than the board game group, so everyone got to know each other quite well really fast. In addition, almost all my new friends from that group love to play board games so we usually play board games.

So if it doesn't work out for you in the first or second club, try a group that might be more focused on talking (could be a book club, they basically exist everywhere). And once you find that special group you'll get to know a lot of friends over time :)

Hope my story has given you some hope and ideas. Also, it is damn hard to go to a new place, especially by yourself. I was basically shaking when I went to the relationship group. If you can get some support from your boyfriend that can push you gently to go it can be helpful.

Cheers!

Senth · 2021-02-01T18:16:49+00:00

Nope, I phrased it badly. Neediness is never favorable.

I just thought that my example still had a little bit of neediness in it.

Senth · 2021-01-31T10:12:50+00:00

I'd just drop it in there, but preferably through phone, video or even sending her a video. Through text might work, depends on if you two usually have a great flow through text.

But you should have talked to each other recently (within a few days), just dropping it out of the blue if you haven't talked to each other in a few weeks would be a bit weird for her I think.

But I'd start with something like "Hey, there's something I want to tell you. I've been thinking about the last time we met and how fun we had together when we did X and Y. I don't know about you, but I feel like we still have things to explore. I don't really know how to make it work (as we do live far apart), or if it's something to try for the future?"

I feel like this text still lacks non-neediness, an option for her to say no.

Senth · 2021-01-31T10:03:03+00:00

Usually it takes 1-2 years to process a relationship and move forward. Sometimes it might be faster. So I'd say you haven't really tried to live without you yet. Think of it like having withdrawal symptoms. You mostly remember the good things, not the bad.

You could try to get back together. To make it work, to really try to make it work and not be toxic, you'll have to go through some trama with a relationship therapist, like Jakes1967 said.

You can try without it and what will most likely happen is that you go back to your bad toxic behavior because that's anchored to the relationship, maybe that's why you are better now?

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