Winter is coming and I want to minimize trial and error in mapping for snow removal.
Please share tips from you experience!
Of particular concern is a shared ~200 foot driveway with a neighbor’s house on one side and further down the way, my garage on the other side. How do I effectively alternate the blower direction?
How/ when do you use the blade? Do you end up with small piles of snow you need to move some other way. Do you have to/ recommend manually controlling the Yarbo while using the blade?
1. You can draw the snow blowing direction as needed — just slide along the boundary where you’d like Yarbo to throw the snow. This makes it easy to manage snow distribution along your shared ~200-foot driveway.
2. For the plow blade, there’s a dedicated Plow Mode. You can find more details here:
The plow will push the snow to the sides and yes you’d have to manually clean it up at some point. You can absolutely run the plow manually as well as the snow blower to try and clean it up.
But you’d have to stay on top of it early and often so it doesn’t become too much weight for the plow to move or solid ice for the snow blower to remove.
But for wet sticky snow the plow does best, especially if it won’t stick around too long after.
How do I get the snowblower to only go side to side? I don’t want it running the long way on the plan. No matter how I seem to set the throw direction I can’t get it to do it the whole driveway in that fashion. Any suggestions.
Setting it to only one side on the long end worked best for me. Having it set to both sides really made the pattern wonky. Can you set it along the other long sides vs the shorter sides you have now?
This might work better but you could experiment with mapping it as one area and alternating the snow throwing directions as needed. But just know that it may still throw in an unintended direction when turning or switching throw areas. I believe this is something they are working on refining soon. If you did break up into smaller areas of you keep the throwing direction unbroken along one side it seems to work best and plot a more efficient pattern. But you can set the directions and experiment using preview to see what pattern works best. Inventory get something you like, go into working preferences and switch the auger off, set the auger height to max and run a dry run test to watch and see how it performs. Don’t forget to put everything back once you are happy with how it’s doing.
It points the chute towards the yellow line along the edge of the area. If there is an absence of a yellow line for it to track, it throws forward. Fairly rudimentary, but effective. If you scroll up and look at some of the other maps posted you will see how moving the yellow line affects the path planning lines. Do you need something more complex?
I got Yarbo about 3/4 through last winter so did not get a lot of experience. My driveway has a large square parking area and a long series of straight and curved sections leading to a main road. I mapped the parking area and driveway separately. Tried both parallel and circle. For the driveway, I got some very inefficient patterns. Most of the time Yarbo would move diagonally and waste a lot of time travelling between missed spots. I broke it into 12 areas. Found that parallel works only in rectangular areas and circle works best in curved areas. Much less wasted movement. It made it easy to change the throw direction for each area.
Hi there, the route is automatically calculated based on the snow blowing direction you select and the shape of the mapped area. You may want to try adjusting the snow throwing direction, or splitting the driveway into two separate areas to see if that helps achieve the side-to-side pattern you’re looking for.
