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A new Toro lawnmower? Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here in my front yard with this brand new Toro 21 inch gas-powered walk-behind mower
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It is model 21386 and it features a 163cc Briggs & Stratton engine, so it's pretty darn powerful
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But what makes it really cool is not that. What makes it cool is that it has personal pace
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smart stow, and super recycler. So let me talk you through the unboxing experience and then I'll
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give you a quick demo. So here's what we have is I have a bunch of photos I took as I unboxed it
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So first off, really big box. And then what they say is to carefully open the front and wheel the
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mower out, which worked out pretty well. And then there's a very little bit of work involved
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the peeling some plastic off and stuff. And then all you have to do is you put an oil included
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You want to use the entire bottle and then fill it up with gas. Easy enough. There's also a gas
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treatment included. You probably want to put that in if you're thinking that your gas might sit for
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months because honestly it doesn't take very long to mow a pretty big yard with this. So that's
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basically it and you're ready to go. Now there are some things you have to learn, one of which is
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that there are these little levers on the side and these are part of what they call their smart
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stow. And so I've turned the levers up. Now I can move the handle to where I want it to be
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And then once I have it in the right place, I just turn them back and now it's ready to go
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It's pretty easy. In a minute I'll show you why that smart stow is so cool. But the other thing
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that's different about this is they have what they call their flex handle, which gives you personal
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pace. So this is a sliding plastic handle versus this solid metal piece. So the idea is I'm going
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to start it and I'll keep this up. This is a safety mechanism. If I let it go it stops. You'll see that
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in a second too. And then as I push this, the more I push it the faster the mower will go. So really
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actually a very cool experience is it's a self-driving mower but you don't really have to
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think about it. If you just do this, as you go up and down it'll actually compensate and it'll work
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exactly as you would want. So smart stow, personal pace. Third piece is super recycler. The super
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recycler is that it does a really fine mulch with the clippings. And this makes it really nice
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because then you don't need a bag. You don't need to deal with it. You just mow and let the little
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tiny bits go back onto the yard. And that's a good thing. It's healthy for the yard. And then you can
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see you can adjust the wheels. It's a bunch of different heights anywhere from 1.25 to 4.25 inches
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4.25 is pretty tall grass. Honestly I generally start out the season with tall grass and then
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bring it down a little bit as I go. So I would recommend just get all four wheels set to the
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same amount. You're good to go. Oh one other super cool thing about this before I started
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You never have to change the oil ever. Changing the oil on one of these engines, ugly. It's a pain
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You never have to do it. Now you want to check the oil and of course you want to check the gas because
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you want to make sure it's ready to go. But enough talk. Let me show you how it works. So easy enough
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Pull the bar down. Pull this and when we're ready for this to start, they guarantee it'll start. So
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let's see what happens. Right and then as I said if I push this forward it will actually start
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moving forward and if I let go, turns right off again. That's pretty sweet. It's a really nice
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mower to work with. But let me show you what Smart Stow is too. Because one of the issues with mowers
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is they take up a lot of space in your shed or garage. So here you can fold it so you're good to
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go with this. But it has another secret. So let's actually clip this. Clip this and now you ready
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for this? It's going to blow your mind. You can store it like that. So you can stash this in a
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corner of your shed or your garage. Just like this. Nothing's going to leak. Which of course was my
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first anxiety. Works fine. And not only that you now get to see what the underneath looks like. So
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there's all these extra pieces that are helping make sure that the grass is being shredded. So
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there's really a lot to like with this Toro mower. I've only been using it for a couple of weeks but
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you can see my grass is beautifully cut and it's easy and it's quick. Really I'm a fan. So this
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is the Toro 21 inch gas walk behind mower model 21386. Definitely worth checking out if you're
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just getting into that whole spring and summer season and you're thinking my mower definitely
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needs replacing. This is one to check out. So with that I think I need to actually get back to work
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Give it another quick mow and that means I'll catch you in my next video
