I deal with snow removal for 10-11 years now. One winter I took my uncle's Ford 8n out to back blade a few drives off the snow coverd road with rear AG's....You can pull a Dukes of Hazzard around the cornner if your not carefull. And when its super cold out........I'am lucky if I can even walk on a cleared parking lot. I never take more than the center line of the hood of the plow truck when pushing.....a little less than that is better yet, and so when the snow is wet. I have been running the JD2100 2wd. with back-hoe, fel., and of course ag's on the back and do my share of spinning, getting stuck. I think the Bossman got me a new 4wd-something this year! I take the snow way off into the lawn or recommended area and with out ag's I'd be using the arm to get out of being stuck. Its better for them to pay the landscaper to fix a few ruts than have my Boss get out the Macks and haul off the snow. When I was a miner, the guys always ran the tractors with re-versed front ag's. I happen to have the IH 42" and I keep up on my driveway every bit of snow that falls and have no problems. This is how I push my drive....angle right, start in center and work out from there, reverse angle when done and start other half...I take it out 3-4ft. past the driveway edges and float across the lawn to have room all winter for the snow to part. Because if you let the sides pile up, you will have the tractor only pushing off the pile. My job pays my Boss somewhere between 80 to 100g a season, thats about 3 factories.
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