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Old 08-19-2007, 12:44 PM
Lowell W Lowell W is offline
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If you're not going to get a blower, I think the best idea for a plow is some sort of old 4WD vehicle. I plowed our 100'+ driveway with a Bobcat for a couple of years and it was miserable. Then I found a Jeep CJ5 with a plow for $300. A few years later, I found a non-running CJ7, again for $300, swapped in the little V-8 and plow from the CJ5, added a hard top and now I have what I think is the perfect snowplow vehicle. It will plow a reasonable amount of snow, it's nice and warm, has good visibility so I can see all 4 corners, and it will get into tight spots. We used to take the plow off so the kids could drive it around the farm fields but they've outgrown that now so it just sits in the side yard all spring, summer and fall and always starts right up in the winter.

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