snow plowing... a generic full size truck, with a snow plow on the front = much quicker plowing, more so roads and long paths...
--city, township, county, state trucks around me are all dump trucks. that can be outfitted with a sand or salt spreader, or rock spreader. and then a snow plow out on front, (rather large plow) these snow plow setups require a min (miles per hour) to cause the snow to fly X amount of feet away from the road way. a regular full size pickup. truck you can still angle the front plow. and get some rolling of snow off to one side fairly good. and if you can keep your speed up and momentum, to help get through some smaller snow drifts (within reason), but at a certain point a FEL (front end loader) of a tractor or like might be needed to get through the deeper snow drifts, were you have to physically go in and shovel the snow out in a sense and pile it up.
a front mounted snow blower (hydraulic snow blower) (connected to FEL), can help reduce the build up of snow banks right at the edge of the road / driveway, at same time adjust it up and down to deal with snow drifts. 3pt hitch rear mounted snow blower can do the same, but "ughs" lot of sore neck driving backwards non stop. having a CAB, and being able to adjust direction of the snow chut = wanted.
if dealing with asphalt, making a snow plow, rear blade, or snow blower... you most likely want some sort of "snow shoes" per say for them to keep from digging into the asphalt and messing it up.
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ditch digging, excavator = better option, being able to rotate around in a full circle. a backhoe can work, but getting a dump truck or dump trailer angled in just right may be some what problem-matic. "it is doable but..."
if you had a beefer 3pt hitch rear blade, you can use them to make ditches. kinda like snow plowing with a rear blade, but you adjust both turnbuckles of the 3pt lift arms. to get an aggressive angle (one side down other side sticking up in the air) and you basically just dig/roll the dirt off to one side. and come back if need be with a FEL (front end loader) if need be and scoop up excess dirt, if you have no place to spread it.
a 3pt hitch box blade, can help level and smooth out the dirt, and be adjusted just like a rear blade as well if need be.
some rear blades, and most box blades come with rippers / scraficier teeth. that can be dropped, to bust up hard compacted soil, and then ya can come back with rippers up, and make moving the dirt easier.
sometimes it just comes straight down to a "dozer" if not a lot of dirt needs to be removed from area, and you can spread right on site. but excavator, backhoe, dozer, while they can get a good amount of work done, they may not give a professional look. (cleaning up after them and making things look good) may still be needed. and that is were a tractor with 3pt hitch generally comes into play. and then the long term maintenance / upkeep.
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Tractor Attachments And Skid Steer Attachments For Any Tractor Or Skid Steer watch various videos and read the text they have on all the attachments that they list to help familiarize yourself of what can be done and how it can be done.
there are some good "road construction" and "driveway maintenance" threads here on TBN (tractorbynet)
and there are some good "snow plowing" threads here on TBN.
google "snow plow site:www.tractorbynet.com" without quotes.
above will just return results for this site. if you have "google chrome" web browser you can get the translator "english to what ever language is your normal" firefox has same like function.
