✅ Can It Handle 5" Of Heavy Snow? - Yarbo S1 Yard Robot Snow Blowing My Driveway - Autonomous!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Here's a test of my autonomous yard robot, the Yarbo Y1 with the S1 Snow Blower modular clearing 5in of wet heavy snow from my driveway. We'll go through its features, performance, and see how Yarbo tackles this really heavy snow that I let build up prior to sending it out to clean up. With the modular design, Yarbo takes care all yard work for you, by switching the module, you can have a snow blower, a lawn mower and a leaf blower with one main body. Its a yard robot that use high precision GPS with RTK-LoRa for centimeter accurate driving. Check out the affiliate link below to gear up for your own winter battles with the Yarbo Snow Blower. This is one of a series of videos so checkout the playlist below for more Yarbo videos! Yarbo provided the product for this filming.
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I REALLY thought I was not going to like this robot. But to be brutally honest, I LOVE this unit!! It's hard for me to justify the price though to my wife for a 5 car driveway. Maybe if I had a bigger driveway, I would definitely get this hands down!! Great video Bro!
It is amazing it works as well as it does, but if I did a sloppy job shoveling like that as a kid, I would not have got a good tip.
I guess you missed it at 5:00 where he clearly said he had snow shoes on the blower and without them it will scrape to the cement.
What else about this is sloppy? I'm sure you've shoveled more snow than I have.
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? :)
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.
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.
neat idea on the roof robot!
Pretty cool
i freaking love your videos ... more yarbo!!!
thanks! More will come.
If you were doing a new build home, or it was time to repave or re-pour the drive, would adding heating elements be practical? I don’t live were it snows, and have no idea how all that works…
@jonniesantos some people do use heated driveways but it is very expensive to install and operate.
I would like to know if they sell towable drop spreaders so you could put some ice melt in it and see if that makes it so you only need one pass.
That is a planned attachment i think!
They announced one, but it hasn’t been released yet. The rover has an attachable hitch at the back, to tow any attachments like a spreader, sweeper, dethatcher, you name it
I’ll be interested when they have a two stage blower and a sweeper/plow attachment
@@sbukosky this is two stage and they have a plow attachement for it
I noticed that they have a plow too, would it make sense to use the plow instead for this type of snow?
@@Yeahyeah-ic8xm yes it could make more sense for wet snow
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.
The foreward speed should adapt to the blower loas.
@robertpeters9438 there is a setting for adjusting that
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.
Exactly. But that concept and change is hard for some to understand and realize.
Its amazing
I'd like to see it with a real snow storm.
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I need this to use at work.
I heard many commercial companies use them for sidewalks
@@NaterTaterOk. Thanks for the reply.
Thanks for the intriguing video. Well, hmm, that movie, 'Maximum Overdrive', where technological devices came to life, is now flashing before my mind, not a good thought. Let's pray all these robot technologies are used only, for benevolent purposes such as this. peace love light
@flyingfree387 in general similar technology is definitely being used for nefarious and evil uses. But luckily this robot is well mannered.
It’s nice though!
How long does it take to recharge back to 80%+ battery?
About an hour or so
Is there a way to avoid needing to go out and clear it in middle of the storm?
@joeyanderson6660 you mean clearing the snow chute? It only clogs if it's really wet snow. Like the 32F+ snow.
@@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
@joeyanderson6660 it's designed to be fully autonomous and not need you to intervene.
@@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
@@joeyanderson6660 it stops.
nice but by the sound of it I don't think it will last a year
@tippydog4436 still going...
What state is this in?
SE Michigan
Who chooses where it throws the snow? That part could be more effective, have it go from center out?!
@alexbetancourt6378 it's somewhat programmable when you setup the task
Will this work with a gravel driveway?
@kdjorgensen98 yes, it has shoes so you could raise it slightly to help with rock pickup.
@@NaterTater Awesome. Thank you for the quick reply and the information! Great video!
5 inches that look like 2 could shovel that shit in minutes this isn’t for real snow it’s a toy
I'd look up other videos of this thing....there are several in 14 inches of snow that it absolutely zips through.
Also, I have the lawn mower attachment, and it keeps my 6 acres of grass absolutely pristine.
Definitely not "just a toy."
$6000 for a snow blower... Not yet... That sucker is loud.