# Slope mode overlapping areas "bug"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support & Solutions\ **Tags:** snowblower\ **Created:** [December 23, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831 "2025-12-23T15:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rcguymike](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/rcguymike/32/4166_2.png) [@rcguymike](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/rcguymike)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/1 "2025-12-23T15:26:04Z")
Trying to get this area reliable, it has run a couple times well, someone had suggested trying slope mode with 0 overlap and that ran pretty good this past weekend, but I edited the area a little to make it even more optimized and now nothing but problems…if only parallel could have 0 perimeter passes…but still slope mode is close. It seems that it sometimes gets to a spot in the area and a boundary edge from the mowing areas stops it…it then does a dance and marks a big portion of the area complete even though it never runs through there… > **[New video · Sunday, Dec 21 🎬](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMko8VMxn2ulaH7dLlYu8gZBnWdrhVRmXE-HyKmC3NsYyl3RcIbVf_QWY7hT9kBTA?key=RzhnQ3BwODJ3elJ3R3ppeWZrZ3hUQ292Skp2LUV3)** ---
**Author:** ![rcguymike](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/rcguymike/32/4166_2.png) [@rcguymike](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/rcguymike)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/2 "2025-12-23T15:26:51Z")
Oh and also note the throwing direction is also all over the place at times ---
**Author:** ![rcguymike](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/rcguymike/32/4166_2.png) [@rcguymike](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/rcguymike)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/3 "2025-12-23T15:27:49Z")
Also this would be a nice area to have a “sensitive” traction control mode😅 ---
**Author:** ![bryan.wheeler](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/bryan.wheeler/32/215_2.png) [@bryan.wheeler](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/bryan.wheeler)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/4 "2025-12-23T15:37:11Z")
I wonder if editing the area is causing you issues vs remapping it? ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/5 "2025-12-23T16:08:59Z")
When is the best time to set the slope mode? How much is slope in terms of degrees? I have a long driveway with minimal slope. Should I set it to slope mode or is this based on conditions? ![IMG_3413](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/yarbo/original/2X/d/d8b9bd9061b77d1c634b07eb555772fbaefe82f0.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ken.w.gregory](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/ken.w.gregory/32/922_2.png) [@ken.w.gregory](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/ken.w.gregory)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/6 "2025-12-23T16:14:11Z")
I don’t know about degrees of incline, but I used slope mode to control the pattern. My driveway probably qualifies as flat. ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/7 "2025-12-23T16:31:21Z")
Thanks. another question comes to mind is whether to set the snow blow to parallel or circular. I wonder if circular would cut the time it takes to blow the driveway. ---
**Author:** ![bryan.wheeler](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/bryan.wheeler/32/215_2.png) [@bryan.wheeler](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/bryan.wheeler)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/8 "2025-12-23T17:33:25Z")
Circular has worked the best for me. Setting throw directions to only one side and circular made my pattern nice smooth arcs following the curve in the driveway and definitely increased clearing efficiency. Slope mode is really just dead ends. Idea is to blow down a hill using gravity and then drive back up the cleared path and start again. ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/9 "2025-12-23T18:36:05Z")
Thanks Bryan. What do you mean slope mode is just dead ends. You mean used for dead ends and how? as for the parallel mode, Yarbo was making Parallel blow to several sections of the driveway, not the whole driveway, which did not make sense. notice from the picture. I will try circular and see. ---
**Author:** ![bryan.wheeler](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/bryan.wheeler/32/215_2.png) [@bryan.wheeler](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/bryan.wheeler)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/10 "2025-12-23T19:20:56Z")
It will blow in a straight line from the top of the slope to the bottom. Zero turn go back up the hill, move over to the next straight line and start over. Kind of like dead ends for the mower but it figures out the path for an area instead of you mapping one. Given your photo, I think circular would help. ---
**Author:** ![rcguymike](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/rcguymike/32/4166_2.png) [@rcguymike](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/rcguymike)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/11 "2025-12-23T19:36:53Z")
Maybe…I really shouldn’t have to remap though…maybe I’ll try that when we get back from vacation…maybe the December release will be out by then and all our problems will go away​:grin:😅🤞 ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/12 "2025-12-23T19:38:42Z")
Understood. Thanks Bryan. ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/13 "2025-12-23T20:35:32Z")
does it push from one end of the driveway to the other end down slope ---
**Author:** ![ken.w.gregory](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/ken.w.gregory/32/922_2.png) [@ken.w.gregory](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/ken.w.gregory)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/14 "2025-12-23T21:15:06Z")
I used it on the apron. Like this. Can’t say I’m thrilled with it, but it did work. ![IMG_5163](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/yarbo/original/2X/4/4d9bc3189f85219c6d6ba92864e16f19bc12b880.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/15 "2025-12-23T21:26:11Z")
Interesting!. I did not think of that idea. Not sure if I needed to do that. My Yarbo was able to go all the way to the apron and clean as part of the driveway. ---
**Author:** ![ken.w.gregory](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/ken.w.gregory/32/922_2.png) [@ken.w.gregory](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/ken.w.gregory)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/16 "2025-12-23T22:31:25Z")
It was more for being able to clean the apron after the county comes through and piles mounds of snow on the end of the driveway! Takes smaller bites maybe? ---
**Author:** ![bryan.wheeler](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/bryan.wheeler/32/215_2.png) [@bryan.wheeler](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/bryan.wheeler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/17 "2025-12-24T00:30:13Z")
Yarbo Snow Cones… Nom Nom Nom ---
**Author:** ![rcguymike](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/rcguymike/32/4166_2.png) [@rcguymike](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/rcguymike)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/18 "2025-12-24T14:40:03Z")
Yeah we get big varied plow banks so I have 1 area and 2 no-go zones, one let’s Yarbo go further out in the road so it doesn’t try 0 turning in a snowbank taller than it, and the other is for smaller banks ![Screenshot_20251222-113730](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/yarbo/original/2X/8/8fcb734f4a5a36ad4bff4d866a47a980364fef23.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/19 "2025-12-24T15:54:43Z")
I see. I have the same problem with the town public work. ---
**Author:** ![emad1996](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/forum.yarbo.com/emad1996/32/435_2.png) [@emad1996](https://forum.yarbo.com/u/emad1996)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831/20 "2025-12-24T16:14:53Z")
So last night we had about 4 inches of wet heavy snow. I sat Yarbo to do circular blow on the circular driveway. It did better job cleaning, cut the time by two thirds and left the battery 50-55 % full vs the parallel blow, which it took over an hour, and the battery was down to 20% and only finished 90% of the work plan. [Next page](https://forum.yarbo.com/t/slope-mode-overlapping-areas-bug/4831.md?page=2)