Geoff, For several years, I didn't use anything but my JD for snow removal. It can handle anything mother nature dished out and I use the 54 inch blade most of the time. If you have deep snow and are running out of places to put the snow, I put the blower on. The blower and blade I have is made by Quick-Tach in Wisconsin and both fit on one mount, so it is fast to change over. I have the bar tires on it and the traction it has is unbelievable. We trailer it to the job, 8 miles away and have never had a problem with trailering it. When I first started doing this, I pulled it with an old Bronco and had no problems trailering. We unload it and do all 61 driveways before we load it back up. We couldn't do as many back when we used it by itself, but it can do 6 huge driveways an hour by itself with a 4 inch snowfall. When I ran it, I could do a driveway as fast as my competitors could with a truck and these are push off driveways I do, so it is neat. When I did back drag driveways, I have a 4' box scraper I can put on the back if needed. Now it is used for cleaning up hard to get at areas and cleaning up corners on circle drives. After doing 61 driveways and running for 6.5 hours last night, it took 2 gallons even to fill it back up when we got in. If you want to see it, it's on my equipment page on my website. <p>----------<br><a href="http://www.townserver.com/elm/">Eric@ELM</a><br>