I have one of the old troybilt 8 h.p. horse models and its been a good one,but troy bilt I heard went under a couple years ago and was bought out by who I'm not sure.I just got a brochure in the mail this week from troybilt,or whoever owns them now,and they still make the horse and a10 h.p. one as well,along with other models,they look like mine,but they have a briggs and stratton engine,mine has a kohler,which doesn't really mean much,kohlers blow up to.The bigger ones are expensive,
www.troybilt.com.There used to be another one that was very good also,it was blue,hadinitals for a name,can't think of it,I believe it was made in italy or some such place,they sold them ,I know as late as 5,6 ,years ago,maybe somebody can help there,but they are expensive to,if you could find a used older 8 h.p. troy bilt,I'm pretty sure you can still get parts for them off the new troybilt,that would be a good thing,if it was running I mean. RICHARD GAUTHIER