My plow can only push snow off one side (never mind the annoyance that plow mode doesn’t work like slope mode for the blower) but it would be nice to tell yarbo if some sides don’t need the safety buffer (or more of one) than the blanket buffer it has now. One side of the driveway is fine since there’s a wall but the other side I wish I could tell it “no buffer” so it would get closer to the edge without extra sidewalk passes
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Agree x 10! I have multiple areas that get drifted and I want to pull 1 edge back a little so it doesn’t get stuck and I can run the full plan closer and closer to the border to slowly open it back up or just run the walk behind or tractor through and then reset it.
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similar situation here - snowblower throws “though” hedge - but once it accumulates around it -snow grows into the working area. Do I have to remap 50cm inwards so Yarbo does not run into the perimeter ?
In some cases you may be able to accomplish this by adding a no-go zone to the side you want to reduce
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This is the way @kinglerch
What @kinglerch suggested is the best way, the other would be to bump the safety buffer up a bit as it grows (under area settings). You can also periodically use it to manually clean up those areas or place a sidewalk there to execute after a plan to try and keep the edge of the mapped boundary cleared so it doesn’t build up too much.
That becomes the biggest annoyance with plow mode is that if the snow doesn’t melt then the area is shrunk down and yarbo always insists on “getting to the end of the line” vs “close enough”
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But you can’t make a no go zone on the side where you have the snow throwing direction. So it’s missing.
I made a smaller zone on top of it.
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This affects the blower also - same behaviour - we had a 60cm of “iced / frozen” snow mountain nicely created by Yarbo. Would have been helpful to be able to define a zone outside /behind the working area. Technically Yarbo would have been easily able to put the snow further back by adjusting the deflection.
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Was just going to say I’ve tried that, and unfortunately if the blowing direction is all within the no-go zone it yells at you if you try to run a workplan and errors out…
(Sorry to the Yarbo engineers if I seem harsh, I truly am amazed at what you guys have to work on, it’s just the dumb marketers that ruined it)
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Maybe they should introduce a no- throw zone option and let you throw into no-go zones. No-go zones could then have an option to also make it a no-throw zone. 
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This no throw zone concept has been a super common request for years. I don’t know why they won’t implement this.
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I keep asking…
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Me too
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Thank you for sharing your suggestion. We understand your need to adjust or reduce the safety buffer on a per-side basis, especially when different sides of the area have different conditions. Your feedback makes a lot of sense for situations like driveways with walls on one side and open edges on the other.
I’ll be sure to share this suggestion with our product team for consideration. We truly appreciate you taking the time to provide thoughtful feedback—it helps us continue improving Yarbo to better meet real-world use cases.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any other ideas or questions.
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