You grenaded that good...I just busted one of the mounting ears off mine.
Transferred the whole works to an older "garden" rather than "lawn" tractor to get a cast-iron transaxle. Still find that most of the time, I have way more bucket and tire than I do traction and still can't do much real digging with it. But it mostly works for handling mulch, which is what I wanted it for to start with.