Add a dock. 
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Thanks. I did buy 2. They are bolted in place and not moving.
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Thanks for the compliment. I pretty much just built it from plans in what’s left of my brain. It’s pretty basic, 6’ deep, 5’ wide and 34” high in the front and 24” high in the back. All treated 2x4s and 1x6 pine. Burnished with a weed burner. Be careful! Then sealed with Thompsons water seal. Placed on doby brick to keep it off the ground. Yarbo has pushed it around a couple times so I’m going to cut a 20” portion out of the sides to give him room to make his turn around and park. I kinda had to cram yarbos charging pad into a little nook next to the front porch. The metal roof on the porch is directly between yarbo and the DC but he still shows good signal and 22 satellites. That with the plastic roof on the yarbo house, it still picks up satellites and intermittent Halo. It works. For now.
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Yes it does.
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I bought a very large dog house off of Amazon. I put wood stakes in the ground for both the inside and outside. This keeps the dog house from moving. Then I put four cork screw type steel stakes on the outside of the dog house. I then stretched two bungee cords from the left and right side of the dog house and hooked them from the cork screw stakes and hooked them together on the top of the dog house. I did this on the front and back of the dog house. This keeps it secured in place through even 80 mph winds.
I did have to cut the opening much bigger. This was a quick easy fix to keep the mower charging on extremely hot Nebraska days for a low cost.
However your design is much superior.
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Glad to this tried and tested first. I did not want to put in the work just to have another Yarbo point of frustration. Food for thought, my idea was to incorporate solar panels on the roof, or as the roof and mount the inverter and batteries to the underside of the roof out of the way if Yarbo gets a bit feisty and starts a ruckus under there.
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This is perfect.
Curious how the roof doesn’t affect the GPS? They seem so admit about storing it in the wide open?
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I have mine under clear plastic too. It affects the GPS but not enough that it can’t get out and back in again.
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Depends on the material but it will have an impact. Especially if covered in snow. If you have a good GPS location, you’re less likely to be impacted by the degradation a cloth or plexiglass structure may add.
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I built this garage for one of my Luba 2 bots. GPS works perfectly despite the plywood roof and asphalt shingles.
That said, I know Yarbo’s GPS wouldn’t work under such conditions so I settled for a fabric dog house shelter thingy from Amazon.
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The gps goes in and out now and then but the halo never fades out.
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