My house abuts the end of my driveway path so when the snow blower reaches the edge it’s hard to clean well. Does anyone have any tips? Do you setup a “cleanup” pass to try to get the snow? Do you just accept shoveling ?
Depends on layout, but a couple of sidewalk paths along the house is common.
Run them first in case you need to blow the snow onto the rest of the driveway. Likewise, the driveway area can extend into that clean zone and use it as a turn-around.
I suspect Yardstick will be awesome for getting those sidewalks laid out correctly, as well.
That’s how I handle the same situation. Just be careful of the backwards sidewalk bug. It’s hard to snowblow when the blower is facing the wrong direction.
Help me understand why they can’t fix the obvious flaws. Dead ends, sidewalks, and memory paths all have this flaw.
I finally got the Yarbo App map working after the most recent patch and alot of help from Yarbo’s engineers (thanks again). I have a similar driveway, my route starts from inside the garage and covers the whole driveway. Picking the side and length of the thow direction during map setup seems to create a differnt route and its throw direction.
Redraw the yellow line throw direction then let yarbo app path a new route. Then try it out on the drive pay close attention to the chute position.
In previous attempts it always made up and down pathways, yesterday it made triangular and other assorted paths in an attempt to put all snow inplace.
Is it “better” to do the pathways first and clear the edges, then do the main route? Or do the route and the edges as a clean up after?
It really depends on your layout, but here’s how I run mine for reference.I keep my Yarbo in the garage. When snow starts, I open the garage door and have it run two horizontal sidewalk passes directly in front of the garage door so it clears a path before starting the driveway.
My driveway is divided into two main areas, each configured to start in the center and work outward toward the edges. This prevents snow from being thrown into areas that were already cleared.
After those areas are done, I have a third area dedicated to the end of the driveway where the plow leaves the heavy pile.Once all areas are complete, I finish with a perimeter cleanup pass to catch anything left behind.
One thing to watch out for: the chute direction isn’t always honored perfectly. It improved last year but still isn’t 100% reliable. Before the season starts, run a few dry tests to see where the chute will actually throw snow. It can aim in directions you don’t expect. Also, be cognizant of the backwards sidewalk bug.
I recommend doing several test runs and adjusting your areas and throw directions until you’re confident it won’t blow snow where you don’t want it.
A pathway gets done any time Yarbo traverses it, so depending on how a job is setup, the route to and from the dock (for example) gets done at the start and end of the job.
The other stuff gets done as specified in the job.
The wind will typically leave some drifted snow along an edge of an area when a job is complete. If that happens often, and you care, you can make a small area dedicated to it, that overlaps the larger driveway, and just add that to the end of the job. Or do a sidewalk along that edge and schedule that at the end of the job. Or, put that area / sidewalk into its own job that you manually run as a cleanup once the blizzard is over, but can skip if the wind didn’t make any drifts.