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In 1948, Toro acquired Whirlwind Corp. and introduced a bagging system to rotary mowers. [8] It created its first snowblower in 1951, and in 1956 was the first lawn and garden manufacturer to advertise on television. [9] Toro purchased an irrigation equipment manufacturer in 1962 and entered the underground irrigation business. [9]
A snow blower or snowblower or snow thrower is a machine for removing snow from an area where it is problematic, such as a driveway, sidewalk, roadway, railroad track, ice rink, or runway. The commonly used term "snow blower" is a misnomer, as the snow is moved using an auger or impeller instead of being blown (by air).
The Toro Agreement – In 1999, Briggs & Stratton made a license agreement with The Toro Company of Bloomington, Minnesota. to produce the Toro R*Tek piston ported version of their E series 2-stroke engine (AKA Lawn-Boy DuraForce) for use in Toro Snow Throwers. The engine was a 141cc 2-cycle that produced from 4 hp to 6.5 hp at 3700 to 4000 rpm ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall for Toro snowblowers that are an amputation risk. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...
In 1968 MTD started snow thrower production. At the same time Yard-Man buys George Garden Tools. [1] In 1975 MTD purchased the Yard-Man name from Montgomery Ward. In 1980 MTD built its 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m 2) manufacturing plant in Brownsville, Tennessee (now defunct).
Toro (tree), or Rapanea salicina, a New Zealand native tree; Toro (DO), a Denominación de Origen for wine in Spain; Toro, a defunct Canadian men's magazine; Toro (sushi), fatty tuna used in sushi; T'uru, also spelled Toro, a mountain in Peru; Toro, the codename for the Verizon Wireless version of the Galaxy Nexus
If the snow is deep and soft, snowshoers may find themselves postholing right through the ski track. In most cases the ski track offers little advantage and putting in a separate snowshoe track allows both snowshoers and skiers to have a positive experience and avoids friction with skiers who often resent having their tracks obliterated and ...
The snow was the result of a low-pressure system moving rapidly from west to east, federal forecasters said, from the Ohio Valley on Saturday to the northern Mid-Atlantic and Northeast overnight.