I've never cleared snow. We get snow here for about a week at the most, but usually it's gone in a day and then it's a muddy mess.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic, or if you really enjoy clearing snow?
I really do enjoy clearing it. There’s just something very refreshing about getting outside in the cool crisp air, and moving the snow out of the way. Last winter was pretty lame for us here, and I only got out plowing 5 or 6 times. I think I only needed the big tractor twice.
We have a fairly large parking area out by my pole barn, and driveways from that to the road and to the side of our house, plus a driveway around back of the barn, and a small driveway from the road to a garage on the front of our house on the other side.
In addition to those, I clear the driveways of our next door neighbors on each side. They really appreciate it. My aunt, on our west side, spends winters with her son down south, but her other kids and grandkids visit her house up here regularly throughout the winter.
My neighbors on the other side have around 8 kids ranging in age from maybe 10 to 20. They don’t have any equipment for clearing snow (other than shovels), so I take care of their big loop driveway also. More fun for me is the way I see it.
For snowfalls deeper than 12”, I usually use my larger four wheel drive 43 hp diesel tractor with 7 ft rear blade and front loader and loaded R1 tires. I have a block heater on that, which is switched inside the house, headlights and a rear work light. That tractor can easily handle snowfalls over 10 feet, but a couple of 6 ft blizzards two winters ago is the deepest I’ve had to deal with in quite a few years.
As mentioned earlier, I usually go with the little 2 wheel drive, 10 hp Farmall Cub, for the lighter snows. That also has front and rear lights, and loaded R1 rear tires plus some additional ballast weight on the drawbar.
Last year, I added a 1” , schedule 80 pvc pipe cuttting edge to the 4-1/2 ft wide front plow on the Cub. Most of my driveways are gravel and that pipe helps keep all the stones on the driveway, on early or late snowfalls, when the ground is not frozen.
That ended up saving me lots of the raking stones off the yard and back into the driveway, which I always had to spend hours doing, in the years prior to adding that pipe to the blade.
The Cub is the finest piece of equipment I have ever had the pleasure of plowing snow with. It is narrow enough, that I can use it to clear sidewalks, and the offset engine makes it very easy to see the work that the blade is doing up front. The headlights have dim and bright settings and the tractor even has a nice loud 6 volt horn.
I’ve got a nice set of chains for the rear tires on the Cub, but my much larger four wheel drive John Deere has never struggled to move mountains of snow without any chains on its loaded R1 tires.
When it’s real cold out, I usually dress in heavy insulated coveralls and use big wool lined mittens, military insulated “Mickey mouse” boots, a face mask, and a heavy wool hat, while plowing snow with my open station tractors.
Since I got that Cub a few years ago, and finished my woodshed, I’d have to say that winter is my favorite season. It’s awesome sitting in the house in front of a toasty wood fire (it wasn’t so much fun during the few years when I had to dig my firewood out from under tarps outside).
Seen here with a 6yo tagging along.