Are you from Canada?
Have you been through a Canadian winter?
Plowing even with 3/4 ton pick-ups here is even a work-out with them.
I never did plow with mine do to the fact the guys at work do plow and I keep hearing about parts they need to put into them the guy next door to me uses his ATV and with the 700 Griz he put two front axles in his this spring and could not go out trail riding with us do to the repairs he needed.
..Caper


Like I said with over 16,000 Canadian dropped into my two Sportsman's I choose to use the Sears Walk-behind and leave my Quads to ride!

 

I have been plowing with my 07 Sportsman 500 for 3 years now and I do a total of 11 drives including my 1 acre lot and she plows just as good as the day I bought it.

 

Plowing snow was reason that convinced the "better half" that it would be ok to invest in a used ATV (needed lots of work from trying to imitate a submarine). She must have liked the job it did (I had fun) as she suggested I upgrade to new sportsman 800 that was on sale! I drug my feet, for the required time period (30 to 45 seconds). Now for the first time in a lot of years, I am looking forward to the snow. Of course riding the trails has been a nice bonus to having the Snow Plow carrier around, might as well use it (it might get stale)!

 

I am like Readymixer...........I get 50 dollars an hour and prorate off the hour, 30 minutes is 25 dollars. I do usually 3 to 4 driveways plus my own. Depending on the snow depth, I can do all of them by noon. There has been storms that it takes most of the day to do all of them. If it is snowing during the day I will go back and check them and maybe run over them just before the person gets home.........makes thing slook better.