Toro 74434 - Controls; Parking Brake; Height-of-Cut Lever; Recycle-On-Demand Lever

Controls
Become familiar with all of the controls in
Figure 3 , Figure 4 , Figure 5 and Figure 6 before
y ou star t the engine and operate the mac hine .
Figure 5
1. Motion control lever,
parking brake position
4. Collection bag
2. Height-of-cut lever 5. DFS lever
3. Gas tank cap
Figure 6
1. Ignition switch 3. Blade control switch
(power take-off)
2. Throttle/Choke
Motion Control Levers
T he motion control lev ers are speed sensiti v e
controls of inde pendent wheel motors . Mo ving
a lev er forw ard or bac kw ard tur ns the wheel on
the same side forw ard or in rev erse . Mo ving the
control lev ers outw ard from the center position
eng ag es the parking brak e and allo ws the operator
to exit the mac hine ( Figure 5 ).
Parking Brake
T he parking brak e is automatically set when the
motion control lev ers are in the brak e position.
Alw a ys position the motion control lev ers into the
brak e position when y ou stop the mac hine or lea v e
it unattended ( Figure 5 ).
Height-of-Cut Lever
T he height of cut lev er allo ws the operator to
lo w er and raise the dec k from the seated position.
W hen the lev er is mo v ed up , to w ard the operator
the dec k is raised from the g round and when
mo v ed do wn, a w a y from the operator it is lo w ered
to the g round. Only adjust the height of cut while
mac hine is not mo ving ( Figure 5 ).
Recycle-On-Demand Lever
Use the recycle-on-demand lev er to switc h from
collection mode to R ecycler
®
mode . Mo v e the
lev er forw ard until it stops to open the dec k door
to allo w clippings to tra v el to the collection bags .
Mo v e the lev er rearw ard until it loc ks in position
to close the dec k door and eng ag e the R ecycler
®
mode ( Figure 7 ).
Figure 7
1. Recycle-on-demand lever,
collect position
2. Recycle-on-demand lever,
Recycler® position
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