I to am from Georgia, I am from Trion, which is about 40 miles south of Chattanooga, Tn. and about 95 miles north of Atlanta. I have a ym 2000, had it about 12 years. We got it from over in Alabama, Fredricks, I think. The only implements I have in a tiller, 4' rotary cutter, 4' box scrape, and just recently got a boom pole. I use to cut my back lot, and occasional box scrape driveways. I did use it to scrape the snow from neighbors driveway, we got about 8" in January 2011, it was gone in 2 days time. Good luck with your Yanmar, you will get good service out of it.