My drive is only about 110 x 30, and about a 5deg incline to the house.
I've used my 12hp wheel horse (with chains) with a 42" plow blade
exclusively for 17yrs. Deepest snow about 16" with drifting. Yeh, it takes
a couple of hours, but muddles through, and, I do the road in front of the
drive so that when the plows come by I don't have another furrow to plow. A
2-3in snow in 45min. I will admit to buying a small snow blower a couple of
yrs ago, but only to do walks and a path to the shed (for the tractor).
Only have @ 3/4 acre to mow with the 38" deck, 'bout an hour.
Gordie Bird
>
> When we lived in Massachusetts, my father had a lawn tractor. He
> tried the snow
> plow attachment, added lots of weight over the drive wheels and
> chains on the
> tires but never had enough traction to plow anything more than an
> inch of light
> snow.
>
> He got a snow blower attachment.
>
> Eric
>
> Quoting Steven Trovato <trovato@computer.net>:
>
> >
> > Ron,
> >
> > I live on 3 acres, mostly wooded, and my driveway is about 250 ft. I
> > suppose I have about the same amount to mow as you do. I mowed
> the lawn
> > with a Honda self propelled, walk behind type mower. Took me about an
> > hour. It was definitely doable, but something wider would have been
> > quicker. I must confess, a back injury prompted me to hire
> someone to do
> > the lawn, and once my back felt better I was too spoiled to go back to
> > doing it myself.
> >
> > The driveway I do with a serious 2 stage snowblower. I find it
> does a much
> > nicer job than a plow, destroys less landscaping, edging, shrubbery,
> > etc. It doesn't take me long to make it posslble to get a car out. To
> > clear the parking/turnaround area, side driveway to second garage door,
> > mailbox and to make everything neat and pretty takes longer, of
> > course. The only time I miss a plow of some sort is when
> there's an inch
> > or two of wet stuff that's hard for the snowblower to deal
> with. Then if
> > you leave it and it freezes you have a mess. I guess that's
> what Calcium
> > Chloride is for.
> >
> > I don't think the plows that attach to small garden type tractors and
> > mowers could really handle a serious snow accumulation.
> >
> > BTW, I'm in New York, about an hour North of New York City.
> >
> > -Steve Trovato
> > trovato@computer.net
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