How Do You Clear Your Drive?

Just wondering how people on here clear their driveways?

I use my tractor and push it out of the way with the bucket. We did modify the bucket to be nearly 8 feet wide to gain some efficiency in doing so. Overall it is a terrible way to push snow. The tractor does not have a cab so it is cold, and it is a very slow moving way to move snow. Granted no amount of snow stops it, and it never gets stuck, and can pile the snow up 8 feet, but I think a truck is better and a lot faster.

Alternatively, we do have a 7 foot snowblower that does work well. It is a bit big for the tractor and is cumbersome to use. With it sticking out 6 feet in the back, and the loader doing the same up front, the turning radius is about 40 feet, so it is tough to get around. And on this hill, blowing snow means you wear as much of it as you remove. I would take a pick up with a Blizzard Speed Wing any day, but who could justify a $12,000 dollar unit just to move snow from point A to Point B?

I snow blow. No way would a plow do what we do. We have more paths & twisty places then anywhere. Gotta keep the wife & dogs happy! For the first time this year I have a "sit on" snowblower. I picked up a used Wheelhorse & did some major repair work on a two stage snowblower. It does a hellofa job! I do eat some snow if it's windy, but if I wear my full face helmet I'm comfy as a dog by a coal stove.

There's no option for, "I tell the lazy 13 year old boy to go oitside and shovel since my snowblower is still broken".

Because thats what I do.

For us it used to be shovels and salt, but three years ago our three children (grown adults) pitched in together and got us a two-stage MTD snowblower with electric start for Christmas.

We start with the heated cab. Then we we gear up and start the old Ariens blower to get her done.

P/U w snowplow 99.9% shovel rest.

Heated cab 4WD tractor, 1% shovel.

F350 with Fisher plow...cost half as much as my previous compact tractor and moves a lot more snow.

John Deere 1032D

Little JD Diesel with a plow most of the time but when it gets real bad I throw the blower on it.



After the 80" of snow durring the winter in 2010 I found a cab, go figure I havent needed it since !

Snowblower. Like fred my area to clear is to tight and difficult to effectively plow. Paid people for years to plow out the main portions but then I'd spend an hr shoveling by hand the places where it couldn't be pushed.

Luckily I purchased my 27" 2-stage just before the major snows we had 2yrs ago. The worse we got was 16" of the white stuff at one drop and handled it fine.