I put away my 47 snowblower here in MA about a week ago. I just plan on using the bucket loader if we should happen to get some kind of freak storm. It's generally too warm now for snow to stick around long.
Comical side story. During the winter, the chute rotator had stumbled and seized up a couple of times while blowing. Figuring it was icing up, I just got off the tractor, gave it a nudge, and all would be fine.
While I was greasing up the blower for the summer, I took off the pulley cover on top of the blower housing to give it a checkup and lube job. It turns out that some mice had made themselves a nice penthouse condo in there. One of their pieces of furniture was a ~1/4" diameter stick. It was just the right shape that it got wedged into the root of the pulley and forced the steel cables to ride over it. It was really jammed in there. I suspect this stick might possibly have been the cause of the stalling of the rotator if it was positioned just the right way upon reversing direction, which was when the stalling happened.