Free John Deere lawnmower. Will it RUN again?

Hello everyone! A friend of mine gave me this lawnmower for Free, but it had been sitting in the woods for over 8 years. It was completely infested with roaches. Can we get it to run again?
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[@ReeseCustoms]

What do you think of this mower? Have you ever seen one this far gone? What would you like to see in the future?

[@davidfarmer1666]

Maybe those sparks coming out of the exhaust might be roaches . Cooked well done.

[@ReeseCustoms]

That's what I'm hoping it was!

[@rickbroerman9267]

Your a mean landlord 😂😂😂😂. I've never ever seen that many on and in the mower

[@ReeseCustoms]

Man tell me about it. They had to GO!

[@ellentroglen2508]

Great work

[@ReeseCustoms]

Thank you! It was a mess.

[@dianavest1059]

Nice work! You look like a very large man on that tiny mower

[@ReeseCustoms]

Thank you! I am not a small guy by any means.

[@dianavest1059]

@@ReeseCustomsnope 😘

[@dixiemay1996]

I surely do hope you cleared it out of all the bugs far away from home.

[@ReeseCustoms]

Well, honestly, I didn't know that all of those bugs were even in there until I started pressure washing it. None crawled out while we were pushing it out of the woods, loading it on the trailer, etc.

[@user-wc2mx5gz9m]

Should’ve changed the oil and greased everything up

[@ReeseCustoms]

All that is next. I just wanted to see if it ran. It was free, and I really didn't want to spend anything on it if it wouldn't run, so now that it does, I'll actually go through everything and get it all right. When I checked the oil in the very beginning of the video, it looked brand new, so I knew it was safe to run with that oil in it, but I'm not leaving it long term.