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Traction Speed, Blade Speed, and Deck Rake

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Testing Toro's Revolution mower in a 6 foot tall WET swamp

What happens here

The presenter dives into more advanced settings on the dash, specifically the adjustable maximum traction speed and blade speed. He demonstrates how the traction speed can be adjusted from a "turtle" (slow) to a "rabbit" (fast) mode, noting the mower can reach 10 mph. He advises against mowing in "rabbit gear" in dense conditions due to potential inefficiency. He highlights that reducing blade speed can conserve battery life by up to 40%, a crucial feature for maximizing runtime. The adjustable deck rake is also demonstrated, explaining its role in optimizing mulching performance by lifting grass for better cutting and circulation.

Goal: Explain power management and cutting efficiency features.

Tools and materials

  • Deck Rake Adjustment Lever Toro

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Frankie, come check this out. There's three There's five motors on this mower. Okay, three for the blades. So, each blade has its own dedicated motor. They don't deal with hoses, belts, they don't deal with gearing. They just And each tire has its own dedicated motor as well. And what they've done is they've actually shown you a display where it tells you the load on each motor. So, as you're mowing, if you all of a sudden see that this goes up, that means this side of the deck is encountering some as encountering a heavier load. Now, here's another thing to the best of my understanding that Toro has done with this is they've also created obstacle sensors in each motor of the blade. So, if the blade is spinning and it hits something, that blade will shut off while the rest of them continue. So, nothing's going to explode. You're not going to have a belt rupture. You're not going to have anything popping and locking and going crazy on you. And as we go through the control panel, let's see what else do we have. Now, here's where it gets kind of fun. Max traction speed. So, you can adjust the speed up or down from turtle gear all the way to rabbit gear. And this thing will go 10 mph. This will outpace my skid loader. Like, if I'm taking my my skid loader down the road, this will go faster than my skid loader in rabbit gear. Wow. But they don't recommend. Well, I don't know if they they didn't tell me anything. I tried it. I don't think I would recommend trying to mow in rabbit gear. No, she gets she gets to be pretty fast. Um, now here's another thing that's pretty interesting. This is your blade speed right here. So, you could control the speed. So, I think the slowest setting in the in the in the lowest mode is about 14,000 roughly revolutions per minute and the highest is I don't know why would you want to go slower? Conserves your battery by up to 40%. So, that's a that's a great question because what happens is the faster you're you're spinning those blades, the harder that battery is working, right? And when you want to work all day long and you don't need high like out here, we wouldn't need a high blade speed, you know, but if we're getting into some nastier, thicker stuff, we might need a heavier, you know, a faster blade. Yep. To keep up. And so that's your dash basically in a nutshell. Uh it does have a USB port.

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