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Bullwinkle123
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You didn't mention snow removal, so assume you have other tools for that, but the back blade would help there, and I use chains on the front with R4's and it works well.
Yeah, I've definitely looked at the snow potential. It's complicated, I know I will hire a guy for at least the next two years, and to do my driveway myself I have to negotiate a complicated bit with the neighbors with whom I must split the cost of privately plowing a town road because it's a class 4 road and the town won't plow it. It's also a awful thing I I wouldn't want to try to do with a tractor. But the driveway piece I'd like to do someday. It just isn't a "primary" chore for the tractor.
If you have advice there w.r.t. horsepower I'm interested, but I don't even know what I'd use. I like snowblowers, but that's a **** of a lot of moving parts (and expense) on a tractor, and I don't even know if I'd go front or rear. Definitely on the back burner for the most part. Plus, these days I never know what I'll get for snow. Heck, I've barely even had to shovel this year much less anything else. Wind and water damage is playing a much bigger role lately.