Luckily no hills, just about a 100 yard long driveway with a 90 degree turn. I think I am going to go with the rear one for $700, just because it is 1/10 the price. It wont be until next season before I get it, because the guy that has it ordered a bigger tractor, with a bigger snow blower, and the bigger snow blower wont be in until spring.
We got another 6 inches of snow last night, so I went out to plow, I just spent 2 hours widening my driveway, pushing back banks with the loader, then plowing with the rear blade. The rear blade does a great job, until the snow piles up to about 2 times the hieght of the blade, then it no longer pushes it over, it just goes up and over the blade. A snow blower would have made easy work of it.
But I am sure it will be like any other equipment I buy, heavy snow year, so I prepare for next year, then the next few years we wont get much snow. Happened every year I ordered a new snowmobile, or a permanent ice shack, after I buy it, warm winters, cant use it, or early heavy snow, and doesnt make enough ice to use it. I sell it, then bam, coldest winters in decades.
But so far, I am pretty happy I installed an outdoor wood boiler this spring. I havent filled my propane tank since last February, and I am still at 40%. The last few years I would go through 5 tanks a year.
