✅ Can It Handle 5" Of Heavy Snow? - Yarbo S1 Yard Robot Snow Blowing My Driveway - Autonomous!

[@NaterTater]

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[@Leonardokite]

Could you have done it more efficiently..... Indeed! But you did it in a more extreme case to show the capability. When I had a robotic mower, I didn't wait until the grass was 3 inches high, it was done routinely so that it was always a small job well done. It was interesting to see how it modulated the discharge direction. Sometimes it was discharging into already cleared spaces. But again, done often it really doesn't matter. And the beauty of "done often" is it just happens by itself without intervention or at least minimal intervention. Great review my friend.

[@NaterTater]

Exactly. But that concept and change is hard for some to understand and realize.

[@Michael-bf4ud]

i freaking love your videos ... more yarbo!!!

[@NaterTater]

thanks! More will come.

[@selkirkwildlife9426]

North Idaho here. I use a 30" gas-powered Troy-Bilt 3090 Storm, a cadillac of snowblowers. But occasionally if the snow is melty, it will refreeze in the second-stage and I have to use the tool to hammer on the rotor to get it moving again. It's also using a belt-based clutch, and one year the belt broke and UPS refused to deliver replacements due to the snow. Kind of a catch-22. ;) Ended up using baling wire to keep the rotor moving all the time, accepting the risks of doing so. So was interested in your commentary about being able to lock up the blower mechanism, either with the clutch or wet snow that refreezes inside the machine. If I don't clear out the snowblower afterwards, the wet snow will refreeze between snowblowings, and I just put a 1ton wood pellet plastic bag over the whole thing and let the engine run for a few minutes to remelt it. Also have some areas where I basically have to plow it twice. So I start making a good line in front of the garage, but the blower doesn't throw it far enough, so I have to go back over that previously thrown snow. As you know, snow compresses when you do this, so it becomes more difficult to throw the snow twice. I wonder how it handles piles like that vs freshly fallen fluffy snow. I find myself sometimes wanting the snow machines to operate more like a Wall-E, making snow bricks, that I can stack later into cool snow forts. :) The other thing I notice is that you have an immaculate concrete driveway and yard, no cat5 cables strung across the grass running to your POE cameras or twigs or branches or gravel. What happens when something gets into the snowthrower rotors, and can you break shear pins? Super curious how this would perform in a rural setting with private easement roads and steep driveways. Range is maybe another question. I see you have a very large backyard, and I wonder if it cuts out at some distance. Could your Yarbo be hijacked or run away from home? :)

[@selkirkwildlife9426]

What I would also like to see from Yarbo is a complementary machine that lives on the roof. Smaller, and it's only job is to prevent the accumulation of snow or ice dams. Yes, I know you can use heat tape for this, but things happen in the Winter, like Power Outages, and sometimes you get a roof accumulation and have to rake. That snow falls off the roof then into a pile that is hard to move. If a small roof-robot could just keep up with the accumulation, this would never occur. And maybe you have an outbuilding that doesn't have heat tape, you could perhaps deploy it onto that roof and let it do its thing. Roof-robot and yarbo could work cooperatively. Good upsell for Yarbo, and maybe a lower cost of entry.

[@NaterTater]

Yarbo suffers from the chute freezing up just like all other blowers when the conditions are just right. Not sure there's really a solution to that other than manually clearing the chute. It has both sensors/safeguards for when it notices the auger is getting locked up and ulimately also has shear pins if needed. But I've had it automatically stop the auger when it sensed a lock up, no broken shear pins yet. Range hasnt been an issue for me here and the newer Yarbo now touts something like 33 acres of coverage.

[@NaterTater]

neat idea on the roof robot!

[@dd2r]

Im live on Québec City I can do the real tests for you in the snow. I live in Quebec, Canada. Here we have a lot of snow.

[@Yeahyeah-ic8xm]

I noticed that they have a plow too, would it make sense to use the plow instead for this type of snow?

[@NaterTater]

@@Yeahyeah-ic8xm yes it could make more sense for wet snow

[@edcabralfinearttechniques]

Its amazing

[@1blktalon]

I need this to use at work.

[@NaterTater]

I heard many commercial companies use them for sidewalks

[@1blktalon]

@@NaterTaterOk. Thanks for the reply.

[@alexbetancourt6378]

It’s nice though!

[@Mushuabi]

How long does it take to recharge back to 80%+ battery?

[@NaterTater]

About an hour or so

[@joeyanderson6660]

Is there a way to avoid needing to go out and clear it in middle of the storm?

[@NaterTater]

@joeyanderson6660 you mean clearing the snow chute? It only clogs if it's really wet snow. Like the 32F+ snow.

[@joeyanderson6660]

@@NaterTater can I have this robot do the snow while I'm away from home, or is there a need to come to it's aid constantly

[@NaterTater]

@joeyanderson6660 it's designed to be fully autonomous and not need you to intervene.

[@joeyanderson6660]

@@NaterTater you claimed that you had to go out a few times to clear the machine, What would happen if you weren't home at that point

[@NaterTater]

@@joeyanderson6660 it stops.

[@kdjorgensen98]

Will this work with a gravel driveway?

[@NaterTater]

@kdjorgensen98 yes, it has shoes so you could raise it slightly to help with rock pickup.

[@kdjorgensen98]

@@NaterTater Awesome. Thank you for the quick reply and the information! Great video!

[@alexbetancourt6378]

Who chooses where it throws the snow? That part could be more effective, have it go from center out?!

[@NaterTater]

@alexbetancourt6378 it's somewhat programmable when you setup the task

[@4000Wiggins]

What state is this in?

[@NaterTater]

SE Michigan