Is the Yarbo Lawn Mower overkill for an ordinary UK back garden?

For most back gardens, yes. The Yarbo Lawn Mower is a mowing module for Yarbo's tracked Y40 core, and it's built for plots measured in acres rather than a lawn of a few hundred square metres.

Yarbo rates it for 25,000 m², but that figure assumes mowing twice a week on a long schedule. Going by Yarbo's own runtime numbers it covers roughly 1,000 m² per charge, measured on an 80% to 20% battery cycle. Even so, a machine that size is designed around big open areas.

The physical size matters more in a small garden. With the module fitted it weighs 96.9 kg and cuts a 500 mm strip. A deck that wide on a tracked chassis struggles to reach tight corners and narrow strips beside beds, and it needs somewhere to live and a route between lawn areas. It also comes with an RTK station to mount and wire in. Yarbo hasn't published UK prices we could confirm, but its other stores list it at several times the cost of a typical garden robot mower.

Where it makes sense is a large, rough or sloping plot, especially if you'd also use the snow blower or leaf blower modules on the same core. For a typical lawn, use our lawn size tool and look at mowers rated closer to your area, or read our complex gardens guide if your garden has several separate sections.