I'm gonna agree with Murf on this one. When we had a rather deep snow (for our area) I heard accross the scanner of many a pick-ups with blades that were stuck. A friend of my wife's had a Kubota tractor with the cab and was constantly freeing the trucks plus keeping several lots cleaned off.

Alan,
During the same storm mentioned above, I had my old Kubota 7200 without a FEL and was using a blade pushing the snow backwards because it wouldn't pull it and broke one of the supports on the lift arms which rendered the tractor useless until it was fixed. Driving forward will work with very small amounts of snow. I found that if I turned the blade around like I was going to push but went forward it didn't dig in as bad and I could angle it and go through about 6" of snow. That amount would decrease if you pull with the blade in the correct position as it lifts the rear tires until you get no traction. My drive is only 220 feet long and I was having to plow it that way every couple of hours. If we got more snow I would definitely have a snowblower.

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