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Let an autonomous mower handle the wide-open mowing while one crew member trims and does the detail work
Mark Fahlstrom, owner of Oasis Lawn, Landscape & Tree and Imagination Landscapes in Springfield, Missouri, in Lawn & Landscape's 2026 Tech Report
For the last few years his maintenance crews have used an autonomous AI mower, with a 72-inch deck suited to wide, open spaces. The crew sets the mower where it should start and presses a button; it gets the orders for each property and mows, while the team member, who doubles as the mower's manager, grabs a weed eater, trims edges and does the finish work. Crews control mowing direction, striping patterns and routes from a phone app or a remote worn around the neck. The mower brand isn't named.
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The problem
Mowing large commercial and industrial sites used to take "two guys and a truck with mowers".
What happened
Fahlstrom estimates the machine does the work of three-quarters of a person. "It's a team member who shows up every day, and I love it," he says. Self-reported.
Quoted in the source: Mark Fahlstrom, owner, Oasis Lawn, Landscape & Tree. Source: Lawn & Landscape: 2026 Tech Report (Speaking technically) (2026-06-29) · Added 2026-10-19.
How to set it up yourself
- What Oasis does: on big, open commercial and industrial sites, one crew member sets up and starts the autonomous mower, then trims and finishes while it mows.
- List your maintenance properties with large open turf areas, few obstacles and little foot traffic; those are the ones to look at first.
- Ask a dealer for a demo on one of your own sites, and time it against your normal crew on the same property.
- Before you buy, ask about safety stops, who on the crew is trained to run it, and what happens if it stops mid-job.
Copy-paste prompt
Here's a list of maintenance properties at {COMPANY NAME}: {NAME, TURF ACRES, SLOPE, OBSTACLES, FOOT TRAFFIC, CURRENT CREW HOURS}. Rank which ones are the best candidates to test an autonomous commercial mower on, and explain why. Then write a one-page test plan for the first property: what to time, what to check for quality and safety, and what would make us stop the test.One short email a day: 3 new AI use cases from real small businesses, each with its source and setup steps, plus a Tool of the Day. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
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