Tornado Floor Machines
Tornado floor machines — low-speed rotary and orbital machines that strip, scrub, or polish hard floors depending on the pad or brush you mount. The manual workhorses of floor care for schools, churches, and commercial buildings. Twin City Vacuum is an authorized Tornado dealer in Crystal, MN, in business since 1956. Buying guidance and FAQ below the machines.
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Tornado Brute Force Floor Machine
$1,069.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Tornado OB 20 Orbital Floor Machine
Price range: $4,299.00 through $4,399.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Tornado M Series Floor Machine
Price range: $1,069.00 through $1,399.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Choosing a Tornado Floor Machine
A floor machine is the manual counterpart to an automatic scrubber: one motor, one rotating head, and the pad or brush you mount decides whether it strips, scrubs, or polishes. The Brute Force floor machine and the M Series are traditional low-speed rotary machines in multiple deck sizes; the OB 20 orbital floor machine uses orbital pad motion for stripping and surface prep. Because the operator controls solution and technique directly, floor machines remain the standard tool for finish stripping, restorative scrubbing, and polishing in schools, churches, and commercial buildings.
If you also need the machine to recover the dirty solution, look at an automatic scrubber instead — and for gloss maintenance on finished floors, a burnisher. Both are in the full Tornado cleaning equipment lineup. Twin City Vacuum is an authorized Tornado dealer at 5415 West Broadway, Crystal, MN, in business since 1956; pad drivers and brushes are in the Tornado parts catalog, or call 763-535-0770.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a floor machine and an automatic scrubber?
A floor machine spins a pad or brush under operator control but does not apply or recover solution — you mop or wet-vac separately. An automatic scrubber lays down solution, scrubs, and squeegees it back up in one pass. Floor machines win on flexibility and cost; scrubbers win on speed.
What can a Tornado floor machine do by changing the pad?
The same machine strips old finish with an aggressive stripping pad, scrubs with a mid-range pad or brush, and polishes with a soft pad. That one-machine-many-jobs range is why low-speed rotary machines stay in nearly every hard-floor program.
When should I choose the OB 20 orbital over a rotary floor machine?
The OB 20's orbital pad motion is suited to stripping and surface prep work, and its motion is easier for newer operators to control than a swinging rotary machine. Traditional rotary models like the Brute Force and M Series remain the general-purpose choice for scrubbing and polishing.
Where do I get pads, pad drivers, and brushes for Tornado floor machines?
Pad drivers and brushes are in our Tornado parts catalog. Call 763-535-0770 with your deck size and Twin City Vacuum in Crystal, MN will match the driver and pads to your machine.