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For what it is worth, I own an old Bobcat skid loader, a Ford 9N tractor with a backblade and a garden tractor with chains and a blade.
For most snow conditions, My 4 wheeler trumps all for fast and easy snow plowing. I do my house drive, my hangar drive and my neighbors drive. The Ford tractor works good for the first fresh snowfall, but once the drive ices up and the plowed berms along the sides of the drive freeze up, the tractor is worthless.
The Bobcat works good to remove 3' + drifts around the buildings on the rare occasions when we really get dumped on, but the 4 wheel drive ATV just kicks @ss.
No doubt an old jeep would work well too, but you can use the ATV for lots of other household chores and for fun year round. I was mistaken earlier, my Polaris is a 300 rather than a 350.
Here is a pick from when I first mounted the plow and was using a goofy HF winch temporarily mounted to the rack. In the second pic, you can see the current configuration which involved a $49.99 12v Harbor Freight winch that I semi-permanently mounted to the front of my ATV.
I fabbed my plow using an old garden tractor plow....Works great with a rope pull release to pivot and an up down switch mounted to the bars. Takes five minutes to take off the plow.
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