Actually, the gearbox WAS left on the back of the PO's 127, when it was traded in for a 1282.
The original owner passed away, and one of his sons took possesion of the 127, tiller, mower deck, 42" blade, Brinly tool bar, and Brinly cultivator. After using it for several years, he let his younger brother use the tractor and implements...as he had bought a 'big box' mower...The younger brother used the tractor for a few years to mow....and didn't use the other implements so he stored them in his moms garage....then decided he wanted something 'newer', so he gave the 127 back to the older brother, who then decided to trade the 127 with the mower deck in on the 1282 with a 44C deck. When he did, he forgot his brother had stored the tiller, blade, tool bar, and cultivator in his moms garage. It wasn't until they were going through his moms possesions for the Estate auction after she had passed away, that they found all of the implements. I bought the tiller, blade, cutltivator, and tool bar for $40.00 total...evidently, nobody else knew what they were looking at.
