I took the tractor out this morning with the rear blade on it, that did not work!!! The blade acted more like a rudder and pushed the tractor around. The snow was too deep and too heavy. So I switched to to the snowblower and it did the trick without any hangups. Got my driveway done. Went across the road and did 2 passes on the new neighbors driveway because I didn't know if he had any equipment for deep snow. My neighbor to my south is a nurse and he drove home from working the night shift and couldn't get into his driveway so I went over to blow out his drive.
I couldn't see his driveway so I figured I'd follow his footprints.
Turned out to be a bad idea, he walked from the road right along the side of his driveway and I got the tractor stuck with two wheels on his driveway and two wheels in the snow filled culvert, and I was leaning at a pretty sharp angle. Walked home and got the wife & one of the 4x4s to pull out the tractor. A little sweet talking and a bunch of grumbling later and I had a tow strap secured to the trailer hitch with the other end wrapped around the tractor bucket.
I asked, very politely, for my wife to drive forward. Instead she pulled forward and turned the wheels to the right, pulling all 4 wheels of the tractor into the deep snow of the culvert
OK, try again. Shorten the tow strap, reposition the SUV, explain exactly what I wanted her to do, and this time the lovely Mrs_B pulled the tractor straight up onto the roadway
I think my neighbor needs to go buy one of these things.
http://www.snowjoe.com/about_us.asp?sec=tv&pid=06