Debating whether to take the snowblower off of my GT19, not that I am gonna need to blow any snow anytime soon but I'd left the blower on that machine for the past handful of years, just parked it as was in the warmer months, just like I do the mowers in the winter....
Last year my son needed the tiller that mounts on back, so I took the blower off. I blew up the other GT19, that I had been leaving the tiller hooked to full time, and was all ready to repower it (have an engine here that would have been a direct bolt in, even) and when I got into it I discovered the rest of the tractor needed more work than I was wanting to put into it. So I parted that one. And the tiller went onto the tractor I usually only blow snow with.
And then never needed it to blow snow even once this past winter. Not complaining about that.
I was actually looking for parts for the chassis on the blown up tractor last summer, and lucked into a whole, running GT16 that was in a while lot better shape than this blown GT19 was. ... With less overall work needed and a NICE deck and a snow blade to boot...
I pirated my new wiring harness off that blown machine along with the rear pto and swapped them over to my new gt16... Funny thing was how little I had to pay for the 16... I could put the tiller on there but last fall I finally found a rear pto mount bagger for these machines, (something else that I will only use part of the year) and I can't mount the tiller and bagger at the same time....
I did go out and fire up the gt16 last weekend, fired up after sitting all winter like I had run it yesterday.., no jumper cables, no ether, just hit the key.
I think the 19 that needed so much work was in that condition because before I got it it had been left outside for years, and the others I have, had been stored under some kind of a roof when not being used, more often than not.
That one that blew up (I proved that series 1 KTs don't like side hills with it, mowing ditch banks) had more rusted and seized parts I had to free up when I had first gotten it, than the previous 1/2 a dozen tractors id worked on, combined.
