Hi everyone - I have a couple of areas that get a bit narrow and the Yarbo is really tearing up the lawn where is needs to turn around a lot. I have it on smart turns but it’s getting pretty bad. The wife is now complaining lol. Is there a way to mitigate this? What worked for you? I was wondering…

[image] Unwanted Zero Turns with Smart Enabled Software Issues Please add to the list of scenarios you’ve witnessed the damaging zero turn behavior while smart turn is enabled. Docking Pathway alignments before starting path Deadend alignment before starting …

You can do some dead ends to cut these areas and use no go zones to exclude them from the area cut. Straight dead ends will help eliminate turning. You can also NGZ them and just give the grass a few weeks to recover periodically by enabling and disabling them. Hopefully they can find a software pat…

And also this thread with a lot of tips to obtain the best results: [image] Unsollicited advice to have a nicer lawn Support & Solutions A little thread for those who want to share advices on how they get the best results from their mower. I’m quite satisfied …

Hi there, Sorry to hear about the lawn tearing issue. Yes, as some of our community members have shared, you can try drawing multiple deadends can help handle narrow areas. Please note that the machine may still perform a zero-turn before entering a deadend. Additionally, as mentioned in Micke’s …

Sorry to hear the product is damaging your lawn. Try some of the community work arounds as the update that introduced the behavior over a month ago is so complex Yarbo can’t unwind the damaging behavior in a timely fashion. Have you tried? Tediously aligning the starts of multiple deadends to al…

I have the same problem. I have trellises for my grape vines and fruit trees. They are about 6’ apart. When yarbo mowes in between them it does a zig zag pattern that is really rough on the grass in the middle. I use the diamond setting but it also does this on the spiral setting but not as bad. I e…

Have you tried making that its own area and then adjusting the angle to get the lines parallel with the space in the middle?

I failed to understand what you meant by now but recently I think I understand. You mean setting the angle and then hit preview until it aligns?

Ban the zero-turns… the only solution. Keep asking. they say they do it for safety… 1) not true; 2) let us decide. Put a disclaimer. I don’t care. Those zero turns are responsible for 80-90% of destruction… The non varying pathways probably the rest (but we have to see what happens once they ban th…

Tearing up the lawn

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Micke August 5, 2025, 8:45pm 4

And also this thread with a lot of tips to obtain the best results:

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Tearing up the lawn

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