hey now YouTube Paul here I'm just gonna do a quick review of the Ferriss 800 zero turn mower
that I have had for probably about two or three months now I wanted to get some mowing underneath
my belt before I did a review so we're gonna walk do a walk around we're gonna touch on points out
alike a point that I don't like about the mower and they're gonna have actual knowing footage
as well and a couple different angles around the mower while I'm mowing my own lawn so you
guys can kind of see the mower in action as well so we'll get into all that let's run the intro
alright YouTube here's the Farris is X 800 if you are in the market for a zero turn mower and
you have an uneven yard or you're worried about scalping at all you definitely want to be taking
a look at the fares all their models are known for their suspension both the body suspension and
the floating deck make a big difference for when you're mowing and uneven yards the the floating
allows the the deck to maneuver around the uneven ground which will help with not scalping your yard
so we're gonna do a walk around talk about things that I like I have a only one thing I really don't
like about the mower so we'll cover that as well but starting at the front here you can
see the heavy Springs actually for the mower which helped with a very very smooth ride you also have
the cross bracing here on the front the extra wide tire said the 700 series has a little bit
thinner tires in the front when I was looking at the different models I went with the 800 because
I wanted the wider tires because I do have two most sometimes in softer ground and when that is
the case the wide tires definitely help with not digging in or messing up the front and putting
grooves in the yard so that's a big help moving along the right hand side you can see you have
the nice rubber steps to get up and the rubber the rubber platform in the middle here to help
with not slipping give your instructions right underneath the seat there adjust we'll see with
the lever move the seat back and forth and back down here I got the 52 inch deck they have all
all deck sizes I went with the 52 because of the uneven yard like I talked about before I didn't
want to wide up a deck just in case I was in I have a bunch of gullies and divots and stuff like
that so this allows me to cut without having any issues moving along the right-hand side here very
simple on the right you have your cup holder you have a regular non digital gauge for the gas this
is why obviously the gas cap where you put the gas in wide tires in the back I have a hilly yard as
well so the nice thing is I haven't had any issues going up or down with the Pharos 800 no slippage
really the only the only the only tiny issue I run into is going downhill if you don't keep with the
speed you will it will tend to grab and then you will get a little bit of ripich in the yard but
nothing major to major Springs in the back as well you can see it's got a lot of play which
is great really really smooth ride really liked it a lot I like the engine guards in the back
protects the exhaust as well as the engine I got the 27 horsepower Briggs & Stratton they also have
a Kawasaki version motor not too many differences if you look into the forms and stuff I've talked
to some people who add Faris's as well and they mentioned about the Kawasaki doesn't get bogged
as much if you have a heavy grass and you're trying to emot-- it at speed I really haven't
had any issues with the brakes in that scenario I have mowed with some pretty long grass and have
not run into that situation I did change the oil after the 15 hour mark and what's nice about the
oil change is if you look down in here there is this hose right here that's in this clamp you pull
that out and you slide it down into that hole and then you can put your your your bucket down below
to catch the oil very little mess which is great for draining the oil out it's very convenient I
like that they did that along this other side you have your oil oil filter I went to two different
stores to get the oil filter so just a heads-up I had to order this off of Amazon I went to an
auto an auto pop store plus a tractor supply and neither of them had that exact model it's this is
more of a Briggs & Stratton high-efficiency oil filter so I did order it online came in fine no
big deal but just realize that when you're obviously taking the oil filter off even if
you've drained it make sure you shove some towels underneath there because there will be quite a bit
of oil that comes out of that side just to try to reduce the mess so just a heads up they're coming
around to the other side control panel nothing fancy here as well just like the other you have
your hours gauge you have your throttle ignition lowered the actual mower on and off and then your
choke because there's not a lot of digital I feel like I'm not gonna have long-term issues which I
like which is great on this on this side this is a rubber chute which is great for getting in close
to trees so it will flex I have and it won't it won't score the bottom of your trees and cause
any issues for disease or anything like that for your trees which is nice this just flip up
you can get a metal casing that goes over that which would allow you to mulch from both sides
and would allow you to get close to beds on either side of the motor as well you have to worry about
throwing grass in your in your flowerbeds organ on the candles they slide in all the way which is
nice sliding as far as you would need these do go up and down you can tighten them underneath here
with this little knob which is nice but these super comfortable the 700 series seat isn't as
plush as the 800 now the reason I went with the 800 because I wanted to make sure I did have a
comfortable ride seat super super comfortable obviously the roll bar that also slides down
with the pins just pop these out the pins are all connected with cables which is nice so you're not
going to end up losing them this slides can put the down or slides up based on what you're
what you're doing or if you're going under trees ebrake here down and up mechanical nothing crazy
here this is a mechanical raising and lowering of the deck you can see they have a let me slide you
around here I do have a pin system here you can see your measurements and you just pick the the
deck height you want and then you push forward and slide this in left and right and this will
move this pin and it'll it'll slide this bar and the deck down to the pin the pin height I didn't
know if I was gonna like this not being hydraulic but the more I used it the more I loved it it's
very simple there's you know nothing fancy nothing really to break either so and the weight of it you
don't have to be super super strong in the legs to push the deck up and down it floats very very
nice so no concerns there if you have any issues with raising or lowering anything mechanical so
yeah that's that's great seat does come all the way forward pull this forward gives you access to
everything you would need battery fluids if you need to grease the gears as well just general
cleaning to get out of here I use a a leaf blower just to get all the grass and everything out of
the head of the deck area but that does give you really good access pretty heavy springs in the
bottom as well to help with comfort there's a seat belt there as you can see moving around to
the front again the other piece of this that I do like is this hatch here it comes through this knob
and this does come all the way up and comes out of there I set this over here so it does give you
access to the bottom as well for greasing if you can't reach it from under the seat you can also
pull all the grasses is quite a bit of collection of grass obviously that happens underneath here
so if you have wet grass and you don't want the deck to rot or rust you can have the ability to
get to that space and get under there nice rubber grommets to keep it off the middle a metal you do
get a bit of scratching here on the front I did notice when I cleaned it not a huge deal you touch
it up or you can put a rubber piece there if you wanted but just to get that back in it goes right
into those those notches there slides right down on there and you can tighten that right back up
I've had this mower for a couple of months now I wanted to give it a I wanted to have a couple of
tries with no in my yard under my belt before I did do a review this is my first zero turn I've
had only tractors before this part or before this point it's cutting my mowing time down to half it
took me close to four hours to mow my yard up to this point and now I got that to just a little bit
over two hours great speed great cut everything's well balanced like I said the floating deck is
extremely helpful for uneven yards and it has plenty of power and even in moist ground with
the with the fat tires you don't get a lot of digging so overall loved the mower just to cover
the one thing I don't like about the mower and I've only run into this on one occasion there
is no lighting on the mower you can buy a light bar kit which is I believe in after aftermarket
Ferriss model from what I've seen I believe it's on the website I think I saw it on Amazon and I
think it's a Ferriss actual product but I'm not exactly sure but there is no lighting so if you
are super busy and you're trying to get the mowing in at the last minute there's no lighting when it
starts to get dusk so unless you're going to wear a pretty heavy-duty headlamp or anything like that
mowing into the dusk and into the darkness is not really an option with this mower but they do like
I said they do make an aftermarket attachment I believe it's a light bar that sits on the front
right here on the front and whether it's in those notches or not I have not looked into that in
detail but that's the one downfall that I don't like has a lot of the times I do run into mowing
into the dusk and when you start not being able to see your lines a little difficult I do have actual
knowing footage I'm going to tag on right right after this walk around she'll get to be able to
see it in action I do all kinds of angles from the right side left side over top and and from
behind so now you'll get to see that in action so we'll move to that next thank you very much