I have a half mile of unpaved road going to my cranberry bogs, and I use a 70 hp 4 wheel drive tractor to keep it open. 8 ft plow bolted on the bucket....a 36 inch or 32 inch blower for the 300 ft of paved road to my shop and the 24 inch Ariens for the small driveway and dog area.

 

Think OP is in a “Buy once, cry once” situation but since he has the truck that’s going to be more cost effective than a tractor.

At Mount Sunapee ordinarily our neighbor plows the driveway. He has an F250 with a sander on the back. It doesn’t take him more than 20 minutes to do the whole drive, including the turn around (pretty large) and just to make a pass up and down probably 10 minutes or less.

We have a 32hp Diesel hydrostatic drive 4WD Kubota tractor with a 55” Bucket and Edge Tamers (basically extended skids). We also have Ofa H pattern studded chains on the rear and diamond pattern studded chains on the front. We don’t use a plow because we use the FEL to push back the banks at the top: we get huge plow berms from the state trucks. Some people use a back blade but we have a weight box mounted. If we had to do it all the time I’d probably buy a SSQD plow.

We push the snow until the bucket overflows (50-100’), pick it up, dump it off the side, and keep going. This easily takes 2-3X as long as the plow truck. So he’s got a great solution.

 

Someone suggested an 11hp Honda walk-behind. We own a 2015 Honda HS928T, a 2004 Ariens 1124 Pro, and a 2017 RapidTrak Pro. Note the Honda has been redesigned to address some of the shortcomings.

Along with wimpy shear pins, aluminum gearbox, smaller auger and impeller, no grip heaters, and a small auger housing, the skids are light duty and are mounted behind the bucket. We’ve moved them to the bucket. We like the Honda in the city but now that they have hydrostatic drive available, bought the Ariens instead of another Honda.