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That picture is from a spring storm a couple of years ago, 24" of wet heavy stuff. We usually don't get that stuff out here, dry with concrete like drifts is more common so it's not too bad with just the bucket but my driveway is about 1/2 mile long. If you leave a windrow they tend to fill up with drifts so a snow blower would be nice to throw the snow well away from the right of way.
ETA: When I live in Michigan I had a 95 F-250 with a Fisher plow, but we regularly got over 200" of snow there, in the high desert we don't see near that much.
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Ooof, do you have to plow all that with just the bucket?
Just the bucket
That picture is from a spring storm a couple of years ago, 24" of wet heavy stuff. We usually don't get that stuff out here, dry with concrete like drifts is more common so it's not too bad with just the bucket but my driveway is about 1/2 mile long. If you leave a windrow they tend to fill up with drifts so a snow blower would be nice to throw the snow well away from the right of way.
ETA: When I live in Michigan I had a 95 F-250 with a Fisher plow, but we regularly got over 200" of snow there, in the high desert we don't see near that much.
Yeah, you REALLY want a tractor mount blower to clear that much area.
Clearing.my driveway with the 24.5 horse Yanmar before I got the 54 inch blower was about a 2 hour job for light snow and 3 hours for heavy snow. That was using the bucket up front and the snow blade on the 3 point. And as the winter progressed, it got to be a challenge figuring out where to shove snow, as the banks would get higher than the bucket could lift.
Bought a 54 inch 3 point blower about 3 years ago. Now, it's about a 30 to 45 min job to clean way more area than I did before, do a better job cleaning it, and I dont get snow banks any deeper than the general snow depth. If I was just clearing what I used to clear with the bucket/blade setup, I could probably do that in about 15 or 20 mins.