The snow in my area (100 mile south of Chicago) can be wet or dry, when dry the blower is great, no piles for it to drift behind later. But when it is wet and the wind is blowing the county plows do not waste there time plowing until it quits blowing , it is blown back in under a hour if they do. With some packing and freezing for a day or two when they do plow it looks like someone dumped a 20 ton load of broken up sidewalk in my drive entrance and the blower will not work, some places I can see the gravel in the drive and 10 foot away it is 4 foot deep and my blower will not go high enough . Most of the time it is out of the north west and my drive heads out west . I find the loader is the for sure tool for me no matter what is going on. I push forwards until I get a pile and turn out into the yard to the south so all the drifting is out in the yard. Sometimes the wind and the temperature drop will freeze the top 6 inches and I push chunks the size of a pickup truck bed. When I go to town to clean drives I might have stuff, cars,houses,garages on three side and can not blow and again the street plows build a 3 to 4 foot parking block and the street so the loader is always the one I take . The snow piles have some real hang time here, might look at the same one for months.
