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Originally Posted by speeder
Plow on a 2WD truck? I'm sorry, but I see one of those humiliating YouTube videos in your future of your plow rig being stuck in 4" of snow. 4WD PU trucks w/ plows can get hopelessly stuck if someone does not know what they are doing.
The weight and wrong kind of leverage that a plow removes from the rear wheels of an already *light in the rear* PU truck makes this an unwise path to take.
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I agree. That said, I could see myself trying it and after getting stuck a few times and having to shovel snow from behind the blade after ramming a pile, I would then be scouring craigslist for a cheap 4x4 POS to buy to mount the plow on.
I have experience with a 4x4 atv with a plow vs a 2wd atv.... The 2wd atv is worthless for all but 2" of initial snow on a small driveway. The 4x4 atv OTOH works great and is what I use for all my driveways on my property. Before the 4x4 atv I used to struggle with a 2wd ford 9n tractor with a back blade or my Bobcat skid steer with front bucket. With the 4x4 atv I can plow off most snowfalls with light drifting in under an hour now (3 driveways) while it often would take up to several hours with the Ford tractor or Bobcat.
The 2wd stuff works ok for the first plowing of light snow, but after that, when trying to plow additonal snow along long driveways, other than the first path down the middle, 2wd vehicles cannot push the pile off to the side against the snow banks left from the initial snow fall (the angled blade just forces the vehicle off to the side away from the pile). Tons of weight helps, but as others noted.... 2wd is much less than ideal.