The founding idea
The part of the machine you never see and always feel
Coil-overs and control arms, not a padded seat
A seat can isolate the operator. Only suspension isolates the deck.
Each wheel is carried on a control arm with its own coil-over shock, so a wheel dropping into a rut moves without taking the deck with it. The cut stays level because the deck stays level, which is why a Ferris does not have to slow down on ground that forces other machines to.
That is also the whole reason the ride is different. Shock that would otherwise travel through the frame into the seat is absorbed before it gets there — and shock that never reaches the operator never reaches the welds either.
What it changes for you
- Quality of cut at speed
- The finish does not change when the ground does.
- Fatigue
- The ninth hour looks more like the second one.
- Wear
- Less shock into the frame, the deck and the spindles.
The honest version
Twenty minutes decides this, not a paragraph
Suspension is the one claim on this site that a page genuinely cannot make. Everybody who rides one understands it immediately, and nobody who reads about it does.
- Ride one on the ground you actually cut
- Bring the operator who will be on it all day
- Ask us what breaks on these, and we will tell you
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