Brother - do I know exactly what GrumpyJoe is talking about. When I had my lighter(566#) rear blade - at times I could get away with plowing my mile long gravel driveway BEFORE it froze up hard and not scalp ALL the gravel into the ditches.
However - now with my new Rhino @ 1050# - easy times are not gonna happen. I either wait for things to freeze solid or reverse the rear blade and drive forward.
I've tried skid shoes on the Rhino - does not solve the problem in my situation. Maybe some type of "wheel pack" would. Reversing the rear blade is so much easier, cheaper and it DOES work.
Thirty six plus years here and the most snow at any one time - - 14 inches. Nothing like some of you guys get. And drifting snow - the time we got 14 inches - it drifted a little but it was no problem, at all, plowing right thru the drifts with the rear blade.
We get all of our fair share of snow - its just, usually, spread out over a fairly long time. Now that I said it - watch us get dumped on this coming winter.