My blade is nowhere near that heavy. I can pick it up and move it but just inches at a time. It doesn't have enough down force to scrape down to bare concrete. Before I plow I have to pull my truck out of the driveway. When I'm done plowing part of my tire tracks will still be there along with a layer of snow no thicker than that covering most of the driveway. If it snows again the next day my tracks will be thicker yet after I pull out again. It still works good enough but if I plow my sidewalk I usually go over it with an old steel shovel that's shaped like a plow. I can scrape my ATV tire tracks off with it.

I know what my problem is going to be lol i'll be soooo excited!! when the first big snow comes, and so impatient, I'll find myself rushing out, after hearing weather report, anxiously watching every snow flak fall, while sitting on the quad with it running, then after seeing a few inches on ground, jump on the snow plowing way too soon! churning up the gravel in the snow with the deep aggressive treads on the heavy KQ 750. Then when I go back to finish the job after the snow stops, i'll be pushing gravel into yard! I'm my own worst enemy lol If I just had a place off to the side of the driveway to store the snow piles, then after the melt I could easily recoup the gravel, but no got! You know how hard it is to try to rake gravel out of the grass in the spring....its no fun, and you can never get it all! I bet there's more gravel in my yard near drive than in driveway! lol After this happens just once! I'll get so upset with myself, I'll be selling this plow for scrap iron lol Still got my trusty snow blower w/ new skies! I don't know why I let the Suzuki dealer talk me into something I really don't need, but still like a kid with a new toy, can't wait to play with it lol

While I'm plowing this winter you'll be out skiing. With your snow blower. :) If you had bigger skis and put them on the plow I think you'd be okay.

Don't push the snow into the yard, just to the edge of the drive! If you get deep drifts, use your blower to throw the snow further away then finnish with the blade on your atv. Your KQ is not heavy even though it might seem that way after your sport quad. My machine weighs in over 1200 lbs plus plow blade! The extra weight helps to keep traction where lite weight machines spin there tires ad dig into the gravel...this is a problem when using 2wd machines on gravel. Use 4wd when ever plowing, I mostly use diff lock when going straight to prevent tire spin.

What i'm going to do, and forgot to mention, is to help neighbors with their lots and get use to all the tricks, then after helping them i'll come home and do mine lol All the neighbors help out ea other real well, throughout the year, for different things, but now i'm the only one with a plow, so i'll be getting a lot of practice, i figure. I'll make sure I keep it in 4 wheel drive, as well! thanks

Good idea to practice on neighbors drives. By the time you get it all figured out, you can then do your own deive. If your drive is small, figuring out a pattern to plow so the snow piles get where you want them is half the battle! My main drive is a little over 200 ft long x 2 cars wide then another 150 ft x 2 cars wide back to the barn. Plenty of places to stack snow...yep..tried shoveling it once with my two sons...next day I bought a 4wheeler with a blade!

You lucky farmers lol If I lived way out like that, I would go nuts piling up rocks, trees, garbage anything I could find to create a mountain to play on and open up another Bundy Hill, right in my very own back yard! Damned old glaciers leaving us flat, not fair lol That's why I get so geeked when getting back up north, first of spring after being grounded all winter!!! Keep that motor home on the ready lol

She is in bed for the winter, but come spring she will be back on the road. Haven't been able to go for 2 summers now so hafta make it up this comning summer.

If my driveway was that long I'd probably plow it the same way I plowed my street several times. I angled the blade all the way to the right and started in the middle of the street, plowed my way to the end of the block, turned around and plowed to the right of the path I made until I got to the other street corner, and repeated that over and over until I was done with the whole block.

One time several years ago when we had a really bad snowstorm I plowed my street. It was after one of the storms that shut down everything in Detroit for 2 weeks. We got hit here too and it took the city a whole week to get around to plowing my street. The people in the rich neighborhood nearby got plowed out as soon as the main streets were done. Anyway, that time I put it in 4x4 Low as usual, but went as fast I could just to keep moving. My rear rack capacity is 180 pounds, and 3 sandbags weighing 60 pounds each on the rack helped with traction, but the rear end still kicked out when I went too far over and "bit off more than I could chew". Everyone on this block of my street could get out to one of the main roads that was plowed, and a week later the plow trucks finally came by. Better late than never, but they got closer to the curbs than I did.

I used to plow the sidewalks on both sides of the street from corner to corner too, until the A-hole next door called the cops on me and they showed up at my house one day. They said they got a complaint that I was flying up and down the street at a high rate of speed. He was the only person who didn't like me so I know it was him. I pointed out my tracks to the cop who saw that the only tracks outside of my driveway were where I backed into the street to plow the very end of the driveway. After I talked to the cop, who could plainly see that no one had even gone down the street once on an ATV, they sat there and watched until I was done and parked my quad. Then when they left I flew up and down the street at a high rate of speed. JK. So I quit plowing all of my neighbors sidewalks up and down the block. I did it year after year free of charge even though none of them ever thanked me except for one person, one time. And it only took one A-hole to ruin it for everyone. He made several false police reports against me but never got in any trouble for it.

I know I'm going to get in trouble too! I'll be so crazy waiting for that first BIG snow, I'll loose my mind, but we have great neighbors and I'll need to be quick out plowing, since my buddy down the street will do the neighborhood on his Can-Am 1000, if anyone needs a plow. Cops can be trouble here too, unless there's a good snow plowing excuse, and they do threaten to impound, and there are a few cops here in Taylor that would do just that! They've actually driven up into the grassy, well kept lot next to my house, chasing my grandson at a good clip, after seeing him, where he was just going around our house for a quick test on a new quad, but by the time the idiot cop got around to the back of the property, grandson was safely back in our driveway (smart kid) where I'm sure the cop was pissed knowing he got away! Too many kids spoil it for the rest of us by ridding the hood racing ea. other, teasing the police, then as soon as the cops see anything, that remotely looks like an atv their on it!! But drugs have been sold for years just down the street with all the neighbors reporting all the traffic out in front of the house, and they avoid doing anything about it! Still I'd rather have police around driving the neighborhood, than like in many cities where their never around when you need them, especially in case of a real emergency!
I'll try your method of turning plow to the right, working from center of st out to curb. Cant wait!!