Before pulling the trigger on the Pro bundle, I did my homework—hours of forum deep dives and scrolling through endless social media groups. The verdict? A mix of glowing praise, doom-and-gloom negativity, and everything in between. I decided to tune out the naysayers and give it a go.
At first, all I had to really play with was the leaf blower. And let me tell you, that thing was almost useless at first—temperamental, unpredictable, and constantly needing attention. The last two updates did calm it down a bit, but it was still like trying to babysit a toddler with a sugar high. It hit my SUV (Yarbo stood behind that and addressed - thank you!), ran into the street, took off into the woods and while I predicted it would dive into the pool it never did that. I did see someone else have that enjoyment though. To say I sh!t talked this thing was an understatement. Yarbo assured me they would refund everything if the Pro performed like the blower. I shut my mouth and waited for the Pro as that, and the snow blower was all I really cared about anyways. I just assumed if the leaf blower more complex modules would be a total sh!t show.
Fast forward to this past week with the Pro: WOW!!! Why couldn’t it have shipped like this from the start? Or at least had the blower pull its weight like this thing? In my 8,000 sq. ft. center circle for the driveway —16 giant oaks surrounded by hostas—it cruised through like it owned the place. No drama and never clipped a single hosta and in an area with no ngz’s.
The front yard? 16,000 sq. ft. with about the same oak-and-hosta setup. I’d overcompensated with no-go zones around every tree back in late July in my mapping. The ngz’s left too big a space of unmowed so they got deleted. Our entire property has underground sprinklers and my 61” zero turn has a stripping kit. Sure the lawn doesn’t look like a ball diamond anymore, but the stripes it does leave are nice. It’s been smooth sailing. Even sent it down my driveway into a 20K sq. ft. zone I hadn’t touched in 6 weeks (grass was basically a jungle. Didn’t even flinch, though it did take out a couple of my landscape lights on two trees but that is on me - I had a feeling that might happen.
GPS still has its occasional “I’m lost, where am I?” moments— on the driveway under open sky of all places with the leaf blower on. One day its useless the next fine, again only with the leaf blower on. Oddly enough under an 80% tree canopy in the lawn? Rock solid. One minor hiccup, otherwise perfect. The rest is just tweaking maps and no-go zones, you know, play with the other settings kind of things.
I hope the snow blower performs like this! Once these final GPS issues are addressed that many are reporting this thing kicks ass!
Thanks Yarbo - you have made a believer out of me.
