My snow plowing learning progression:
For many years I got by with an ATV and a blade. Three years ago we moved in to the country that is flat as a pancake. The first two years the ATV and plow did fine. Last year it was 12" of snow and 25MPH winds. This equals 4' snow drifts. An ATV with a blade against 4' snow drifts just isn't a fair fight. So I get out the tractor and FEL. This worked much better than the ATV and blade but the tractor with R4's, even on level ground in 4WD, could barely push it's own weight. Much less with the loader on the ground. So this year I bought the meanest set of tractor snow chains that I could find. I have learned that there can be so much snow, drifted so high, that no blade can take care of it no matter what it is attached to short of a bulldozer. The snow has to be physically moved and not pushed. Either by FEL or snow blower.