OK, I gotta add a bit here. I bought my compact utility tractor only a couple years ago. Before that I used a garden tractor with little 36" snowblower. Last year I decided not to hassle putting the snowblower on the garden tractor since, heck, I have this nice CUT and loader now. What a mistake. I could blow the driveway clean in about the same time it takes to move the snow with the loader, but the big difference is in the spring cleanup. The loader puts so darn much gravel onto the lawn I need to mow, it is a terrible mess. With the blower, it was small but everytime you took a 3 foot pass, it was clean when you got done. With the loader every pass spills over both sides and it seems less systematic. In addition, with the loader you end up with piles of snow concentrated, instead of snow nicely distributed over larger areas with the snowblower. I think using a blade (your other choice) would be more like the loader in the respects of gravel misplaced onto lawn, and piles. Myself, I plan to complete my snowblower construction project before this winter.
My officemate blades all his snow. He tells about how he deals with the first few snow, pushing them 50 feet or so off the desired-clear driveway area. This way, he hopes to have room for later snows, and make it thru till spring.
My opinion, after having used a blade, a loader, and a blower, the productivity of the three would easily be ranked as follows: Snowblower most productive, Blade next most productive but could lead to buildup/blockage, and lastly the Loader 'cause it is slow.
The other advise about a cab is very important too, cause it is alway cold and windy when you want to move snow, and the wind always blows it toward you (it seems like).
If you have other uses for a tractor, it will serve as a very good snow removal also. My wife says to me "If I had known that the tractor could do all these jobs for us, I would have wanted you to buy one years ago." How do you argue with that? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif