had a chance to open up a driveway that had not been plowed for 2months. Conditions prior to snow blowing. The temps were about freezing during the day with lots of sunshine, below freezing temps at night for about 10 days. Then 2 full days with temps above freezing with some light rain. The next day when I went to open up the drive is was pouring rain! The blower handled it with out any problems. Didn't plug once. I even bogged down the tractor (running at nearly full throttle) to 1200 rpms 3 times and it didn't clog at all.
The only trouble was I couldn't get anyone to talk pictures of me sitting on a cab less tractor in the pouring rain with 20 mph winds.
Anyways... I'm very very satisfied with this snow blower. I have put it through all the different types of snow conditions encountered here. It has about 70 hours on it.
Now.... I have to get cracking on finding the "perfect" cab tractor by next winter.