Anyone with first hand experience with front receiver mount plow?

[dcmdon]

I have a place in Maine with a 1/3 of a mile dirt road in, I have only resurfaced it once in the last 10 years. Had a guy bring in a big machine and 80 yards of lint pack, cost around $2500, had held up very well, will be doing it again this year. Also have it plowed every time there is plowable snow, depends on the year but averages around $600 a year for snow plowing. I have had a 7.5’ Fischer RD plow on a half ton, plowing sucks.

If I can get my driveway plowed all year for $600 its worth paying someone to do it. ha. Mac - I don't know if I will ever find someone that cheap, but it does make sense to at least look and see what it will run rather than assuming that it will cost thousands per season.

Thank you all for the input. This confirms my thoughts on buying a small tractor with a small front end loader and mini excavator. I should be able to store it inside so that should keep maintenance to a minimum if its only used 20-50 hrs per year.

I think I will plan to use the Gladiator with a front receiver just to host a winch and bike rack. If anything changes significantly, then I can always remove the front receiver.

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Put a PTO driven snow blower on the back of your tractor and you won’t have to worry about having it stack up storm after storm. On the back allows you to keep the bucket on the front.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Put a PTO driven snow blower on the back of your tractor and you won’t have to worry about having it stack up storm after storm. On the back allows you to keep the bucket on the front.

Yuuuup
Even used it to clear the road out front after a couple blizzards closed the road to the highway. My wife was headed home from Des Moines up to Thornton when I told her we were getting a hell of a blizzard. She was pissed as it was clear, sunny, 3/4 of the way from her work in Des Moines up I35. Then suddenly there was a wall of white. She made it to the exit off I35 and about 2 miles toward home and the road just disappeared. My neighbor a little over a mile away called me and said he saw her car on the road and he got his tractor and blower out, I got mine and we opened the road.
Another time we were out and about and made it to just over a mile away and the road disappeared. You could not see the ditches or the fences. I walked home using the electric poles as indicators of where I was, got the tractor and blew the road open so we could get home.
Amazing what you can do with a tractor and a 3 point mount PTO drive snow blower. You can find them on farm sales sometimes. Paired with a good utility tractor and bucket there's little you can't do.

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