Lawn Mowing a Steep slope in St.Paul Mn with a Toro Lawn Mower

all right we're in St Paul Minnesota and we're going to be doing a product review of the Toro 52in grand stand mower we haven't left anything to chance on this video we're going to talk about the capabilities of this lawn mower and if you see we've got a laser because camera angles light and it's easy to make a modest slope look more aggressive than it is I've taken the time to set up a laser measured the actual height of this of this lawn over the Run going down to determine the actual angle that this lawn just a little bit over a 1.15 to one rise to ratio run on this job site this is about as Extreme as you would ever want to attempt to mow what you're going to find we're going to do in this video is not only show you how this grand stand Works behind us but the fact that you can take it sideways on a hill like this now I don't recommend you doing this but we're showing you what these lawnmowers are capable of in this video I want you to look closely right now he's going up and down on this hill that's the safe way to mow this but later on in this video we're going to show you that if you're brave enough you can do just about anything with one of these lawnmowers then we're going to go over some of the specs on this lawn mower itself and show you some how thick a brush we can actually go through with it and let you make a decision from there if a Charo 52 in Grand stand is right for [Applause] [Music] so here we're at the top of the hill we just finished mowing um Jake did break the pattern up went sideways for a little ways the safe way to do a hill this steep is to go up and down uh but sometimes you got to break break that pattern up you can see a Cassidy in the background blowing off the driveway um they're wrapping this yard up so Jake got a question for you y how safe did you feel going sideways on that lawnmower so it's not bad until it starts to slide when you're going getting too steep okay but it's capable of doing it without making you too uncomfortable not the right way to do it but it's something that can be done if you're in an absolute pinch and you have to change up the mowing pattern you're not stuck always going up and down is that right yeah okay let's go over some of the features of this lawnmower you've been running this thing for a while now what's your thoughts on this mow it works nice nice runs nice how about the controls I was watching you up on the top do you did you get used to it right away or did it feel a little bulky at first feel bulky at first but I mean you get used to it the longer you riding it it's a little quirky isn't it the first time you hop on it the second time you hop on it it's a it seems like it's a bit over sensitive if you ask me a little bit Yeah well the zero tur thing can almost throw you out of you if I wanted to cuz it's that fast it's that responsive turns that fast but if you did throw you off it's got a safety lever up here and as soon as you're bucked off from this thing your hands let go this safety lever stops the blades from spinning right yep the parking brake so here's what it looks like when you're standing on the mower your parking brake is here and this is also a kill switch for the lawnmower so when this is up like this if you decide it's time to back up this lwn mower is going to kill right then and there Jake will you hand this this camera over get us both in there so if I want to move this lawnmower I pull it back and then I release and now my lawnmower Will Roll okay once this when this is up and in place you're locked tight okay so we covered the parking brake here's your blade activization okay when you got the Lo lot more fired up this blade will not activate unless you safety latches out so we can get the pl moving but as soon as we go it shuts off automatically that's in case this thing does Buck you off it's not going to run you over and cut your hand or your arm off here's how you adjust your deck height come on over here with this lawn mow you have all the adjustments are right here you simply pull out a pin and put it in whatever slot you want I'm going to put this back to where we were at initially which is 3 in even put your pin in lift your blade up it's heavy and you drop it down and now you're at three if you do need to make an adjustment you lift your blade back up set it in at safety latch adjust your deck adjust the pin and then drop it it back down it's as easy as that everything else on this machine is pretty intuitive the maximum you can cut with this machine is about this thick I don't recommend doing it with your own personal lawnmower but we have a site where we went through it and this Woody thick stuff this is about where it stopped the lawnmower is a little closer look at the control panel on this Toro 52 I know we covered it and what you heard me talking to Jake about was how it's a little bit bit um sensitive here's what I'm actually referring to when you look at this these are your steering controls right here and what happens is when you grab hold of these if you freehand it if you just hold on to the steering control you're going to hit a bump and what's going to happen when you hit that bump is your knuckles are going to slam forward because these controls are fat well actually it would be this way your knuckles are going to slam forward this way or you're going to pull back and this thing is going to literally Buck you off off that's a fact so they have these two bars right here in the in the front one in the front and then one in the back and what you do is how you steer this is you have to grab hold of the bar itself like this so you stabilize your hand with the bar and then you put your control your thumb and you drive it this way or you do it the other way around where you take it from the backside and then you drive with your fingertips see don't expect to be able to grab the controls don't be able don't expect to be able just to freehand it and to to go right away without learning the process on this machine otherwise this is a great machine I love it in fact uh I have had absolutely zero problems with this machine so far I've been very impressed with how it handles over the turf I've been very impressed how it's able to contour and flow without gouging without scraping uh it's a great machine if this is the type of machine you're looking for I would highly recommend it I have absolutely no qualms other than the steering controls uh with this with this