Toro has redesigned its Dingo TX 450 and TX 550 compact utility loaders, keeping the walk-behind operation while adding a modern design.
The gasoline-fueled Dingo TX 450 and diesel TX 550 can take on digging, hauling and grading tasks in spaces that don’t allow for bulky machinery, the company says.
In the video above, Kaitlyn Ingli, product marketing manager at Toro, gave Equipment World a walk-around tour of the new 24.8-horsepower, 1,904-pound Dingo TX 550 at World of Concrete.
Toro says the rugged, reliable and straightforward design lets first-time users and experienced operators alike complete tasks quickly and efficiently.
“Engineered for ease, the Toro Dingo TX 450 and TX 550 are intuitive to handle,” says Ingli. “These machines are powerful tools, whether you're planting trees and shrubs, moving materials around or installing irrigation. The refreshed Dingos offer an uncomplicated solution for projects that might otherwise be too labor-intensive to tackle by hand.”
Key features Toro points out on the Dingo TX 450 and TX 550 include:
- Compact and lightweight — Among the smallest and lightest walk-behind loaders in their class, they are designed to operate on constricted jobsites that require more than handheld tools. The compact size also makes them easier to transport.
- Minimal turf disturbance.
- Durability — Toro backs the new models with a 1-year limited warranty.
- Ease of use — The intuitive joystick lets operators control raise, lower, curl and dump functions with one hand.
- Attachment versatility — Toro offers more than 35 attachments for a variety of tasks.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
Ideal and user for this product is someone who has kind of been in that manual space, working a lot with hand tools, was realizing there's a lot of inefficiencies in that. And so this comes in and really replaces that, that need for five people to do a job that one person can do, and you can utilize the other for people to go do something more efficient on a job site.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
Hi, I'm Caitlin Dingley from The Toro Company. I'm a product marketing manager here, here to walk you through the reintroduction of the 550. So we've had this product out in the market for many years, and the biggest thing that we wanted to kind of do was give it a new look, bring it up to kind of the new generation.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
We've launched a lot of dingo since we first launched the 500 series. So bringing it in, we moved a lot of the branding off the loader arms onto the tower, matching a lot of our current product out there. We redesigned the hood, so kind of giving it a nice new clean look. And then also kind of covering the tracks like we've have out on other products as well.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
What hasn't changed is everything that makes these products really great. So the product has been around for 20 some years, and customers hands down have loved the products as a tool carrier. So tool carrier from a definition is really something that could do hydraulic attachments really well. This machine has an interior, dedicated hydraulic pump just for the attachments.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
So it's a really great unit if you're running any kind of hydraulic attachment breakers, gravel buckets, tillers, soil cultivators, it's a really nice product for that reason. Super easy to drive. I always say if you can drive a shopping cart, you can drive one of these products. Really nice and easy controls, motor arm function and then auxiliary control as well.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
Back behind unit. So a really nice for low turf disturbance. So if you're working outdoors you don't have to come back and clean up after yourself. The product kind of takes care of itself. But also really easy for a new user. So someone who hasn't had a lot of opportunity with a dingo or kind of a mini skid steer in that space, it's a nice step up for somebody who's been doing a lot of manual work, manual labor, doing a lot of things by hand gives them an opportunity to mechanize that power, mechanize the labor, and build it into their fleet rather than replacing labor.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
We're enhancing it. So it's a nice opportunity for any kind of customer walking into that space.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
Doing work with shovels, things of that nature.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
Laborers are getting burnt out. Going home really sore.
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Kaitlyn Ingli
And so it's someone who's kind of coming up in the industry, who's trying to figure out new ways to use their labor more efficiently. But really coming into kind of a new space for them within a mechanized power equipment.
