You can get the mower under the cub without all the lifting and dragging. Lay some kind of weight on the hitch bars to hold them down, and drive up to the rear of the mower crossways, and cut the front wheels so the right one just clears the mower pulley, and drive as far forward as possible, then do a little jockeying =forward and backward, cutting the front wheels so mo keep working to the right. To remove, simply reverse the process. With a little practice you will not have to move the mower more than 3 or 4 inches.