I rented a Toro 525 all last summer. It was small but got a lot of work done. It was fast, good on hills. The 525 was a bit small to load a dump trailer though, but still got the job done. The 525 didn't do fine clean-up very well....kind of tail heavy.
no offense man but they weight doesn’t go down with the arms extended just to be “safe”… it quite literally give the load more leverage against the machines weight so therefor lowing the amount of weight you can effectively move before the machine tips forwards… making it useless