I knew it when I took the snow blower and snow tracks off on Monday, when it was 72 here, that I was making a mistake. I said, “Just watch! We will end up getting a foot of snow after I do this.” Look at what is coming my way. Sorry, Wisconsin. Didn’t mean to get you 20 inches of snow by switching out for “spring clean up”. Now, switch to winter mode again.
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We were supposed to drive to Door County, WI this morning and we aborted because we go up and around over the Mackinaw Bridge. We aborted because I was afraid we may not be able to drive back Saturday/Sunday!
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Send it!!! I love snow. I know Yarbo won’t be able to handle all this so I am prepared with Kubota diesel power!
91 yesterday and I was mowing. Today we have an inch of snow and still going.
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Oh wow!
I’ll be giving Yarbo a crack or 10 at it…lol but mega Yarbo on standby…speaking of which, I’m going to do a little clean up before so the neighbors have room to put their snow…they still use Yooper scoopers
, was hoping Yarbo could be made reliable enough to do their snow for them but snow is not forgiving like mowing so I’m not going to offer until it’s reliable
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Remember, it’s the thought that counts. 
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I will let him do the sidewalk and garage approach slab, but that is about it. This time of the year the granite that my driveways and parking lot have are not frozen anymore, so if Yarbo spins (and we all know he loves to spin) he will get stuck right away. Unless it somehow manages to leave a base, he might work, but I am almost positive he will fail and I will have to go out on a mission to save him.
We got about 5 inches last night. Sent Yarbo out at about 2:30am to do sidewalk and the garage approach slab. He completed that but I could tell it was a wet snow. I then sent him out to try the driveway, he made it about 30 feet and got stuck and spun up the granite. I had to go outside and get him unstuck and send him back to the charger. Game over for Yarbo, 3 inches at the time was too much for him.
Sorry to hear about the early morning failure.
If you don’t mind, what settings were you using (driving speed and auger speed)? It was heavy wet snow?
Thx.
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Medium and turbo, performance set at 45. Yarbo got stuck trying to zero turn as normal. He turned twice, but got stuck on the third. Once the granite is thawd, with no frost, Yarbo is useless. Not enough ground clearance for any kind of spinning. I have tried up to 50 pounds of weight, but still no go.
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Interesting about the lack of traction on your granite driveway. Do you have the studs on the tracks? I wonder if removing them would increase Yarbo’s traction on the granite.
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They are in, taking them out would be much worse. During the winter there is a thick ice base that covers the granite, so Yarbo is on ice most of the winter. A deeper paddle track would be a help also, kinda like someone on here posted, but not made out of metal, I think a rigid plastic would work, but then it would probably screw up docking.
What height do you run? Have you tried pre-clearing any corners with sidewalks first? Crushed granite right?
Crushed granite, correct. No sidewalk stuff. I have one setup for my actual sidewalk, but if I send it out, 95% of the time it will hit my steps as sidewalks do not work correctly.
My driveways are 100’s of feet long. I dont’ want to play the sidewalk game that far out, it is a long walk to get Yarbo unstuck.
Also we all should not have to make up bs plans to fix Yarbo’s poor software.
You guys on here are great for help, but Yarbo needs to step up and make some changes. Watch a live stream, you would think this thing is awesome, but reality is, it is not. It works pretty good sometimes, and sometimes it just fails. A lot of my issues could be fixed by it not doing zero turns, and multiple others have pointed this out, but here it is 2 seasons later and it is still doing zero turns.
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3am in the middle of a blizzard, Yarbo has a track fall off. Ice in the track area. 100’s of feet from the garage. Had to drag out a wagon and haul Yarbo in. Track back on, sent Yarbo to charge. Yarbo will now for sure not keep up with this storm. I will have to clean it myself in the am, and then maybe Yarbo can take it from there again after the reset to freshly cleaned.
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@Yarbo-Forum I’m not going to bother to create a new topic because there’s really no point. I just have to ask you this one question: What are you people thinking? Do you come into the staff meeting to discuss what you’re going to do for your latest software update, get on the whiteboard and go: Step 1: How do we make things worse? Step 2: Not good enough; make it even worse than that. Step 3: Meeting concluded.
Who thought it was a brilliant idea to shut down everything to simply move the snow shoot from left to right, or any direction for that matter. I know one person on here cried because the no-go zone got a little bit of snow thrown on it. Is that the reason that we’ve decided we have to shut the entire machine down to move the chute? What on earth would cause somebody to think this was a good idea? If I’ve gone out to get this thing unstuck for this very reason once, it must be 20 times all the while, it just sits here doing the hokey-pokey, burning battery. Your last software update sucks!!
I guess the rule of thumb for using the snow blower should just be if we get more than 1/2 of dry powder:
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I need to go out and plow the driveway with my normal plow.
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Then go out with a hair dryer to make sure that everything is perfectly dry.
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Then send the Yarbo out.
The think is, for the most part, this worked pretty good before this last update. Was not perfect but a heck of a lot better than this!
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Super agree, one thing I never do snow blowing manually is stop the blower!
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Almost 20 inches here in central Wi
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