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Clearly the solution here is "screw it, it's frigid anyway, do it at like 11:00 at night when literally everyone else is asleep."
Which, I mean, isn't cutting into MY sleep any, but it's annoying that I, already a Morlock, need to play vampire while I'm at it because God help that I do anything during normal people waking hours.
Because the whole job in total takes maybe 15 minutes if you just let it run, but easily double that if you're having to stop and wait for everyone to slow roll past.
I know this sounds incredibly petty and like a first world problem, but when the cold is blowing straight through your thermal gloves and you try to tell yourself you can tough it out for a few more minutes and then the literal pain says you can't, having to screw around with things taking longer than necessary does feel a little aggravating.
Rather annoyed. It's freaking COLD out there and you would THINK that tomorrow being a holiday people would be out of town today, but no, after hearing no traffic and deciding to have #Yarbo clear the driveway, suddenly a conga line of cars! And because the way Yarbo pauses means different components finish doing their commands rather than everything just halting, it opens up room for error every time I have to do it as a car approaches lest some gust of wind blind them with snow and get me in trouble.
These movements DO work in coordination if you let it just run, smoothly, without issue, which makes it such a PITA when people mess it up and potentially make it do something it otherwise wouldn't that it really shouldn't.
I cannot stress enough how much effort #Yarbo saves me. I had it do a couple rows in the plow area last night, really just enough to get it to where the "lower drive" area starts, and after work I just had it do the lower and upper drive like normal. Fifteen minutes later, I was out getting my pills.
Edit: I should clarify I was out of pills and not having them would have made it much harder to take care of the driveway and get them. Shoveling could have taken a couple hours I didn't have and dang near killed me in the process, if I even could have finished in one day. And maybe I could've driven over it or maybe I'd have gotten stuck. I didn't have to worry about anything but making sure Yarbo didn't get stuck.
#Yarbo officially has the plow blade on and OMG, this snow is not snow, nor is it slush. If this stuff fell in the toilet it would clink. There's water at the bottom of the driveway and after encountering that, Yarbo got clogged, and even after clearing it, it just started compacting rather than throwing like it did starting out. Getting the plow blade on, even the double pass was just straight up rolling it into snowballs that keep escaping rather than being pushed off to the side. It's like I have a driveway full of self assembling Snow Goons.
Yarbo is in the garage thawing because trying to get the stuff out of it made it immediately turn to solid ice. I have had wet, heavy snows in my life, but nothing like this.
New blog post!
☆An honest review of the Yarbo experience☆
To start this off, I'm going to be breaking this up into distinct sections: the robot itself, the customer service, the snow performance, the lawn performance, and trials and tribulations.
The robot
Let me just start this off by saying I got the original robot and then I paid a bit more to upgrade to the c(...) https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/an-honest-review-of-the-yarbo-experience/
I'm at almost 1800 steps in part from managing #Yarbo today, which isn't bad all things considered. I can scarcely imagine how many it would be if I had to shovel by hand, provided I even finished today. A lot of that was dancing around in the cold trying to monitor traffic and stay out of detection range so it didn't just stop, but steps are steps. I feel like I accomplished everything I needed to. The driveway is, if nothing else, drivable; the strays are fed; nobody got turned into a smoothie despite the grate being off; and the grate came off in one go with my fingers holding out just long enough to get the 6 screws out. Overall successful, I think, even if it did all take multiple attempts to finally get to a state of completion.
Okay, so #Yarbo was able the rest of the driveway tonight, mostly, but there's a bit of a packed spot that needs additional attention that's probably a snow drift and Yarbo left a bit of a mess not overlapping for some reason. So I have a cleanup run scheduled for the morning because it's frackin' cold and shockingly humid out there and wind chill doesn't help. Not quite so bad since I found my gloves, but it did penetrate by the time Yarbo was done.
I mean it will probably still be frackin' cold and shockingly humid in the morning, but at least I'll have the light and be dry. Had to trudge through a lot of snow for the manual corrections and got myself wet and cold.
Things were going fairly well, but then traffic came along and I'm just going to wait a bit because a) my fingers are frozen, and 2) I feel like someone took a drive around the block and if I'm going to be stopping #Yarbo every time cars pass lest it decide to take that moment to fill a windshield, the last thing I need is to give them the satisfaction.
People often rubberneck when it's running; even the mailman did earlier today with a man walking his dog. I just waved at them. Yarbo is good for starting conversations, but if there's going to be a contingent looking for trouble, I really don't feel like having one with the cops.
This is, in part, my own fault for thinking I could consolidate the couple snowfalls because one wasn't all that bad, as well as misjudging how much snow from the street would pile up in the driveway rather than letting #Yarbo try to handle some of it ahead of time before the plows were liable to visit.
Frustrated. #Yarbo decided it was acceptable to throw snow toward the street, so I had to scramble to stop it, because that's not legal here. Ended up trying to refine the snow throw direction to include the other side in case it was stuck for choice, but I am not happy about that.
Well, I at least got to eat. But when I was drinking some of that limited edition V8 Chipotle flavor I coughed and sprayed it all over the counter and decided I was just done.
On the plus side, I was able to get enough of the worst of everything cleared and took the grating off, so Yarbo probably can handle the rest. And even if not, it won't be so bad to do it manually. But I am still rather annoyed that the chute doesn't have better range.
#Yarbo officially got stuck due to the plow leavings. I fixed it, of course. I may need to use my lunch break to have it handle the plow area first, then handle the rest.
So #Yarbo officially completed its first full run of the driveway for the year.
I have to say this: they REALLY improved its ability to recognize when it's hit something that's not going away. Actually got a specific message it was adjusting due to uneven terrain. That wasn't there last year.
It did 2 passes in about a half hour and went back to charge without a hitch.
In contrast, maybe I would only take 20 minutes to blow the snow if I were smart enough to get the dang thing started, or I could kill myself shoveling for 2-3 hours with breaks.
I cannot stress enough how good of an idea this was for me.
Yeah... #Yarbo really needed me to risk charging it tonight.
We're under a G3 geomagnetic storm right now, but that's going to be over before sunrise, I hope. But with temperatures plummeting into the negatives, I can't afford to have the battery freeze.
It's currently heating. Which is good, but I'll breathe easy when it starts charging.
A strange day indeed, having to choose between terrestrial and solar weather.
Edit:
It's charging.
So I just got jumpscared by #Yarbo while out feeding the strays. I had turned on the anti-freeze feature, which wiggles some of the parts every so often. This, apparently, makes a strange rhythmic scraping noise that I was not expecting. So kibble went flying when it happened behind me. XD
#Yarbo is officially together with no serious injuries!
I do have some nicks on my hands and I almost pulled something, but ended up just stretching it a wee bit.
Also I think I've developed a mild skin allergy to WD-40. This would surprise me more if Grandma hadn't been allergic to petroleum. She had to be very selective about her lotions or else her hands would be cracked and bleeding.
I am rewarding myself with lunch and then I'll check the damage outside and see if I need to attach the plow or if it's light enough to blow.
Woof. Yeah, #Yarbo being swapped for winter really is an all-day sort of job... and I wasn't working on it most of the day. It does not help that my misadventures over the summer meant that I have extra tasks to perform.
So far, I've managed the following:
I guess it's time for #Yarbo to get the snow blower back on. I have a long weekend to do it with. My yard is currently surprisingly evenly coated with leaves and now has the first dusting of snow that looks like it might stick for a bit.
Leaf litter and snow are an essential blanket for lots of helpful bugs. I had a neighbor ask about whether Yarbo didn't also have a leaf blower and I explained it does, but it's going on in spring to let the fauna over-winter and all the juicy leaf nutrients fertilize the lawn.
FWIW, even the Mower Pro does not mulch spring leaves. They do need to be blown.
Also FWIW, active snow messes with GPS something fierce. Yarbo really does need to be prepped ahead of time. Because once you're absolutely slammed with snow, it is incredibly too late.
Ooh, right, I also need to plan on the snow treads being part of all this. And probably the tall RTK posts. Yeah, this is not a "do it on my lunch" production; I'll need a day.
Well. Today I...
I have no idea how I can be so awful to white tees. I wear a new white tee and I always seem to end up horribly staining it somehow, but my old not-white-anymore tees? Somehow they get off scot free.
除雪もこなす庭用ロボット「Yarbo」、新たに20億円超調達 欧米市場で存在感
