Ferris IS6200 with 48hp CAT Power

Sometimes it's really cool to see companies doing things simply because they can, right? Because of the things that are possible today, because of what can be engineered, kind of throwing normal conventions and normal sanity out the window and making something awesome because they can. This mower is kind of that for me in the zero turn mower space. The real heart of this machine is down here underneath this back hood, and it is a 48 horsepower CAT diesel. 48 diesel horsepower in a zero turn mower. That is a lot of power. We're very used to selling diesel machines of half this amount of power. Diesel zero term mowers is something that we've been a proponent of for a very long time for a couple of reasons, fuel economy being one, though I'm sure this thing is pretty thirsty. Your typical diesel engines are going to be more torquey, and in a zero-term mower where you got a good constant load of trucking along through the grass, the torque does really help these machines perform well. 

But also longevity and that longevity was one of the things that really jumped out at me. When I was going through Ferris's kind of glossy brochures for this thing, they call this out as a 4,000 to 5,000 hour engine being twice the life of a typical gas engine. That I think is cool. That's something that we have told people for a very long time, that you get much better longevity and stuff out of these diesel engines than you do out of just about any air cooled or liquid cooled gas motor. But it's very rare to see that put into print. So very cool to see that, four to 5,000 hour engine, frankly, probably would go pretty far beyond that, but by the time you're getting there, the rest of the machine is probably getting awfully tired by that point.