Toro 4500-D manual New Toro Groundsmaster, Real-World Proven

The New Toro® Groundsmaster®

Productivity And A Quality Cut For Demanding Turf

Toro has done it again! In response to superintendents’ needs for more productive

rotaries that help them improve their quality of cut, Toro

announces yet another breakthrough mower.

Introducing the Toro

Groundsmaster® 4500-D, the latest addition to our family of ground- following rotary mowers.

Featuring Toro’s exclusive ContourTM Plus cutting technology, the Groundsmaster

4500-D has five free- floating decks that fol- low the contour of the terrain so you can get a championship-quality cut on undulating surfaces.

Better yet, the decks on the 4500 deliver a wide nine foot cut (2.74 meters) to give you a big boost in productivi- ty. Also, with its 60-HP Kubota® turbo charged engine, full-time bi- directional four-wheel

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The Toro® Groundsmaster® 4500-D has five ContourTM Plus cutting decks that follow the contour of the terrain for exceptional quality of cut on undulating surfaces.

drive and superior traction, the 4500 promises you a better cut in demanding places, like roughs and slopes.

Power, versatility, productivity… could you ask for more? Actually, yes, which is why we built the Groundsmaster 4500-D for easier maintenance, user-friendly design, better striping capabilities, opera- tor comfort, a quieter engine and more.

Real-World Proven

“I’m convinced it’s the best rotary mower out there,” says Bryan Miller.

Miller is Golf Course Superintendent at the Georgian Resort in Villa Rica, Georgia, an 18-hole, Tom Fazio-designed course near Atlanta. Last year, they decided to replace their reel mowers with rotaries in the rough areas. “We had undulations wreaking havoc on the

recalls. “I told them if that machine was everything it’s made out to be, we’d love to get it here.” He arranged for a demon- stration of the prototype 4500, and liked what he saw.

“This is a great innovation,” he adds. “I think the quality of cut during diffi- cult times to mow is going to be even better than reel mowers—like in heavy grass, heavy dew or debris. It’s going to allow us to mow these areas like we want to and maintain the quality.”

“It didn’t bog down a bit,” agrees Jeff Connell, another superintendent who has had personal experience with the 4500. “It has an extreme amount of horsepower, so you don’t have to worry about going through thicker grass or wet grass. With that four-wheel drive, it also didn’t slip or make any kind of tire ruts

designed by Ellis Maples. Presently undergoing a major renovation, the physical layout of the course had created particular equipment needs.

“We mow close to 100 acres,” he says, “and we were just not getting all the way around the golf course as many times as we needed to. Also, we’ve got a lot of bunker faces that kind of go down. It seemed we couldn’t get in without scalping.”

Last spring, Connell was invited to a demonstration of the Groundsmaster 4500-D. He was quickly impressed.

“The biggest thing I liked about it was the solid roller on the back and the anti- scalp rollers on the front,” he says. “You could actually mow over the top of a bunker face and not get any kind of scalping whatsoever. The nice thing about the solid roller in the back is that

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