I agree completely with JM. His recommendation is spot on -- Everything will be VASTLY simpler to spend a few hundred bucks on a beater 3/4-ton truck (that won't pass inspection but still works) with an automatic transmission and power steering (
) with a modern MeyerMax (for example ...) plow with nifty push button controls that sit neatly in your lap (that you don't have to lean half way across the cab to operate ...)
I hope we hear from 48bigtrucks -- He plows snow with his bigbolts and may have some insight for you from his personal experience.
Something else -- How expensive is it to pay someone to push your driveway versus how much you'd have to spend on rigging one of your trucks? Plus the time involved ... plus how much do you enjoy laying under your truck in the snow at 0300 getting hydraulic fluid dripped on your face while searching for something that broke off so you can reattach it and at least get the truck moved out of the middle of the road/driveway .... ? Just things to think about.
John
