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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 379338" data-attributes="member: 389">Over the years I have used everything imaginable to clean various driveways, including a damn shovel.I have the benefit of LOTS of trees around my rural, circular driveway, so hard drifts aren't usually an issue even though snow storage is a problem.  Nonetheless, my current favorite is an old JD F725 and its snowblower.  I can clean my circular driveway in about an hour and a half with it.  If I use my small tractor (43 hp, JD 4120) with a bucket, its over 2 hours by a fair amount. I've even done it with a 5 hp walk-behind blower, that takes over 3 hours. I also have a homemade dirt blade for the tractor and that is also a solid 3 hr task for anything more than a couple inches.  Even though it's a metal blade on a floating 3-point hitch, I have to put 160+ lbs of suitcase weights on the blade for it to be even remotely effective at pushing hard snow, then again it's not necessarily designed for snow.It sounds like you're willing to risk a rare event for ease of effort.  If so, I'd suggest that once in a while, you are going to be under-armed for the task at hand.  How often that may happen is really the question here.  How tolerant are you of being under-armed when it comes to snow removal? Are we talking gravel driveway, or is it paved?I'm risk intolerant, I maintain both my F725 and its blower for primary use, but I also have the tractor to use when Mother Nature gets feisty.In the end, it sounds like people have success at using a SxS blade to tackle a hard drift, but there may be a better tool for it.  I have a paved driveway and the sharp-edged snowblower has generally out-performed a weighted blade, and when push comes to shove...the cutting edge of the bucket with the weight of the tractor takes care of my hardest of the drifts.</blockquote>

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