Sweeping Experts Clean Up with Toolcat Machines and Attachments

Georgia Company Help Builders Pass Inspections; Keep Streets Dirt-Free

At one time, Savannah’s Secret Gardens owned six Toolcat 5600s for cleaning streets.

Imagine driving to a jobsite and stopping because you can’t see the road anymore. It’s caked with layers of dried mud so high that you can’t see either curb. There are two options: Hire a crew of workers with shovels to loosen the mud and remove it from the road, or call Savannah’s Secret Gardens to clear it with Toolcat™ utility work machines and attachments.

What you’ve just read is a true story. Sun City on Hilton Head Island, S.C., is a popular retirement destination, where builders recently constructed as many as 1,200 homes a year. Builders faced the difficulty of keeping streets free of construction debris and dirt while keeping up with the housing demand. That’s where Paul Turner from Savannah’s Secret Gardens
came in.

Turner saw an opportunity to clean the streets quicker than manual labor and shovels, and more efficiently than dedicated and cumbersome sweepers. “I’ve seen as many as 14 guys with shovels in one place, just to get it ready for a sweeper. What developers paid laborers with shovels for a day, we could do with Toolcat machines with a bucket and angle broom attachments in a fraction of the time,” Turner says. At one point Savannah’s Secret Gardens owned six Toolcat 5600s. Today the company owns four D-Series Toolcat 5600s.

Toolcat Machines are Best Choice for Sweeping

Developers were so impressed with the increased performance of the Toolcat machines that more and more of them hired Turner to keep the streets clean and inspectors happy. According to Turner, Toolcat machines were the best choice for this task.

“We helped developers pass inspections faster than anyone else.”

“I’ve shown up to sites where I couldn’t even see the curbs,” Turner says. “The Toolcat 5600 and bucket loosened debris and removed most of it from the street, while another 5600 followed behind with an angle broom to clear what was left. A water kit stored in the cargo bed was used for dust suppression. We helped developers pass inspections faster than anyone else.”

From the comfort of the climatecontrolled cab, Turner and other Savannah’s Secret Gardens employees worked 8 to 10 hours a day, five or six days a week to keep the streets clean. “The Toolcat machine is the way to go if you’re in the sweeping business; they simply outperform conventional sweeping machines,” Turner says.

Fuel savings was a major consideration, too. “We’d go through 40 gallons a day with larger sweeping machines before we bought the Toolcat 5600s,” he says. “Now 10 gallons will get us through a full day, and that includes running the air conditioning.”

Today, Turner is looking at other applications for his fleet of Toolcat machines, including site preparation, land clearing or assisting at nurseries where they can lift and carry pallets of landscaping supplies, trees or plants.

With more than 40 available attachments, there are many more applications for the Toolcat utility work machines.

Visit My Toolcat 5600 and look for illustrations and photos of the new D-Series on the site, too.