Thank you for your interest in the Yarbo trimmer! The string will be available both in pre-spooled “cartridges” and as loose spools, so you can choose the option that best suits your needs.
I am solidly disappointed to hear that. Not sure if the decision makers at Yarbo are ignorant to their customer demographic or are banking on a short term moneygrab over keeping a customer who will stay with Yarbo instead of try a different company next.
After purchasing a $5k+ mower and $900 trimmer, the last thing we want is to now be dependent on constantly purchasing $30-$50 proprietary spools. 90% of regular trimmers support having the user putting on their own trim line because its “easy to replace when needed.”
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@tbooth9393 I agree.
My preference would have been for a simple removable spool that we could rewind. There is NOTHING complicated or NOT EASY about that.
I’d even be ok with a cartridge if it was refillable with a tool or some other mechanism. Honestly, unless there is something VERY special about the particular string that Yarbo is using, this sounds like a means to pump money from the customer and is VERY disappointing… especially when so many other features make this appear to be a good product…
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I know they said the trimmer will come with an extra spool. I’m betting it will be possible to respool an empty spool. Perhaps @Yarbo-Forum could verify this. If not, I agree it is rather disappointing unless the cost for a bulk pack of spools is minimal.
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I hope it can be refilled as well.
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If a machine can make this…so your telling me im not going to find a way to crack this open and refill it myself? Id be surprised and extremely disappointed if this is not an option for me.
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Sorry for the confusion caused by the previous reply. After checking with our product team, the trim line will be sold separately. Thank you for your patience and for bringing this to our attention!
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Thank you for the update. Is it proprietary or can an equivalent store bought line be used?
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And does it have auto rewind to load the spool?
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So dissapointing that you have to purchase the spools instead of being able to reload them. The pictures shows the spools and they are very small so one will be going through many spools. I was originally excited and was ready to purchase my Yarbo mower with trimmer today but now im holding off and looking at a couple other mowers that have the trimmer options.
I’m seriously curious how it’s going to trim when you can’t get it to cut within 8" of anything without tricking it. I’m trimming 8" to 12" around everything on my property. Am I doing something wrong?
You can reload them. You can optionally purchase new spools.
You’re not doing anything wrong. They’ve added safety buffers to help prevent it going out of bounds over the perimeter and NGZ’s. But they are working on adding new dead reckoning and other capabilities into the software to be able to remove these safety buffers.
I sure hope you know something the rest of us don’t.
Only what they’ve told us on the various live streams and social media platforms.
8 to 12 inch buffer? What? When did that software update come? I guess it’s as good a time as any to be waiting on a mower replacement.
It is for sure 4 inches and in corners/turns it can be more.
When did that come to pass? I haven’t seen that.
Well the default set back has been 4 for a while, but my understanding is it’s forced even set at zero right now. I think it was in 3.9.10+
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I can confirm this. When I briefly had the previous firmware I was getting closer to the perimeter, a true 0 setting (I tested this after mapping). 3.9.16 pushed it back to 4”. So even if you select 0, it still runs at 4. The working theory is Yarbo is trying to mitigate the issue with crossing boundary while they figure out how to make their new navigation/vision system work.
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