First Impressions: Yarbo S1 Snow Blower Review
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Meet Yarbo. A first of its kind, multi-function outdoor autonomous solution.
A robust, novel design that started its life as a snow blower and has become so much more.
Yarbo aims to be your personal lawn and turf care assistant for a wide range of tasks, all throughout the year.
0:00 intro
1:33 - first impressions
1:56 - modularity
2:50 - build quality of main unit and attachments
4:52 - obstacle avoidance
5:50 - battery
6:52 - charging system
7:30 - snow blower specifications and performance
8:21 - hitch
8:58 - connectivity
12:20 - use cases
14:10 - safety
14:30 - how & where to purchase
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This space has absolutely blown up over the last few years, crazy what's available now
Love this video and the details you guys covered. Can't wait for the snow video!
Thank you for your excellent overview. I can't wait until we get some snow so that you can put it through some tests.
Good review guys. One step forward towards automation...
As a Yarbo owner, I'm perfectly happy with the product and I haven't even (yet) been able to get the antenna installed for it to handle things on its own. With the condition of my hands and back, it turns would would typically be roughly a 2+ hour job for my driveway into just about a half hour with the controller.
Am I to understand that you are driving the snow blowing by literally driving the unit around your property? Nice.
I am in upstate NY and we've had 2 snowfalls so far that my snow plow guy had to come to do the dirt driveway.
So my question of real concern is how well does it (or do you think it would) do on a dirt/stone driveway that is hilly? My driveway is at least a couple of hundred feet long and about 20 or so feet wide and does have trees on both sides, so the RTK function probably won't work so well as it gets away from the top of property. My lawn is also hilly (but tree-free so for mowing the rtk would work; my StarLink satellite dish is in the middle of the lawn) and I am not confident that the Luba product would do well on it. This Yarbo with the treads might be an option for me next spring. At the moment, I planning to look at a John Deere riding tractor with mower deck and a snow blower in the front. Thank you for any guidance you can provide.
Go to Illinois and try it. I want it but don’t no if it will work in thick heavy 5-7 inch snow
They seemed to have let the pricing get out of control going from a few grand to 7500 with the snow blower attachment. Attachments should cost a lot less than they have set for them. Let’s hope they get the pricing back down to what they had planned. I don’t see many people paying this high price.
I agree total rip off and dinky battery. Plus, it is lithium ion, which in cold sucks ask all the morons charging thejr cars in parking lots, lol
@@shanew7361 so you must have missed the part where they said the battery is heated.
So is it only registered to the person having bought it? Can it be stolen but useless to the thief? How long does it take to charge after a run? Can it dig through the extra thick pile a snow plow leaves at the end of your driveway? Why haven’t you guys considered giving it enough memory to remember the driveway and walkways around a persons house so it doesn’t need wireless connection? These are the main issues if you can resolve in your product, you might have a great product on your hands.
I would imagine that its weight is probably a deterrence to theft, but I agree that is a concern as well (I don't think I saw an official weight listed. ) I agree that it should have some degree of onboard memory. Perhaps for lots of residential users who are only going to have 1 or 2 programs for driveways or something like that that it would perhaps be beneficial to just connect temporarily to get its location and then track its locations incrementally to complete its planned path.
Hey, that's a lot of questions! Thanks for asking them.
So is it only registered to the person having bought it?
A: This is correct. It can however (currently) be shared with up to 5 unique users.
Can it be stolen but useless to the thief?
A: Their efforts will be in vain and they will be easily tracked down through the 4G/GPS connection. A thief would not be able to operate the product if they managed to get away with it.
How long does it take to charge after a run?
A: It will take around 3 hours to charge fully (on average)
Can it dig through the extra thick pile a snow plow leaves at the end of your driveway?
A: Yarbo can traverse and manage most snow types with the 2-stage blower, it's weight and high traction tracks. So yes, within reason. If it's a 5 foot pile of road ice, I can't promise performance around that (but would like to test when possible)
Why haven’t you guys considered giving it enough memory to remember the driveway and walkways around a persons house so it doesn’t need wireless connection?
A: As we did not develop this product and only represent the manufacturer, I cannot say if that is anything on their roadmap. RTK (vision + lidar) are the current industry direction for setting virtual boundaries. That being said, new technologies are hitting the market faster than ever, so time will tell.
I hope that helped ease some of your reservations. Have a great day!
What concerns me a bit is the sensing system and snow.
How do you keep snow from covering up the cameras?
And will the rader be able to penetrate snow to find solid items infront of it?
I can easily imagine a Boules steel ball hidden in the yard to be unsuccessfully gobled up.
Thanks for the questions. In regard to the cameras being covered with snow/ice, they are actually heated to avoid this situation. There could be build up of salt over time, but it would likely be something you noticed before it got out of hand. If they were to be obstructed, you would recieve an alert about the error and it would need to be manually cleaned.
To the radar detection through snow question, the short answer is no. A question I might pose is would anyone manually blowing snow be able to do the same? Running a Boule ball through a snow blower is a terrifying visual, but Yarbo nor any machine would likely treat it the same. We would advise to always be aware of the areas it is installed in for debris that could damage the machine or the surroundings. Hope that helps some.
It's silly they don't have the mower out too. I would use my credit card and buy this setup.
Just found the channel today. Great job! I have a metal gate and am wondering how I would switch the mower from the back yard to the front automatically? Any solutions?
Oof, that is a good question. And honestly, one that I think the Yarbo does not have a solution for at this point in time. In comparison to Husqvarna's Automower Fence Door (really the only OEM solution for this issue), Yarbo does make things a bit more tricky as it's heavier than most that you might just be able to carry. That said, I think there are a few ways around it. Short of installing timed, automatic doors and syncing with the mower schedule or cutting a direct passage, your best bet might still be manual intervention. Depending on the size of both and the schedule, you could cut the front and back on different days and open the gate for Yarbo so it can access it. If it's smaller, you could also always manually drive or instruct it to mow the back yard when you see it needs cut and open the gate for it then. I wish there was some clever, tried, and true solution, but, sadly, there's not one that we have been made aware of or regularly implement to address this. If you want to discuss further, you could always contact our sales team who can map out your lawn and sizes to see if there is another way to address it. Thanks again for your question. I hope I helped to give some context.
@@AutmowRoboticMowing thank you
It seems engineered to be a snowblower, with the other attachments as afterthoughts
The bars across the front of the auger blades are new and definitely going to kill its snow blowing ability. Price is off the charts!! This seems to have become a high priced rare toy vs the smart multi season use robo platform. Such a bummer.. Definitely waiting for a large name brand to pickup up the idea and offer something for less than 1/2 the $10,000 price of the robot with three attachments. Most people would only go for the snow and mower attachment for a full yr around use. Over $7000 just for a one season tool ie snow tool is nutz. Thats several yrs of paying a snow service to do your driveway. More yrs than this plastic robot would last.
Also, that pedestrian warning system seems like it would be a real pain in any sort of commercial area where people are walking to and from an office building. But, yeah, for the kind of money they are talking about, my plow guy (who would also double as my mower guy come the spring) could probably be paid for at least 7 years. $60 for less 6 inch and $80 for more than it. $75 to mow the lawn (it's about an acre or so and that's what he charged in Nov after I bought the house).
Those are removable. You keep it on if it fits the type of snow you have. If not, you remove it. The makers of this product really thought things through when designing it.
Why even bother doing a review with no snow? I stopped watching at 1:18
Overpriced garbage 🗑
Explain
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it shane?