My driveway is pretty big--about 110' long,and it splits into two separate drives about 50 feet from the street,kind of like a "Y"..one part goes alongside the house down to the quonset garage,that part has a slight uphill grade heading to the street..
I have always had a snowblower,tractors with plows or snowblowers,and after getting very discouraged with their inability to work for such a large area without constant break downs or just plain being too small to handle the deep snows we get here that is often wet and sticky,I bought a '71 GMC K1500 with a Fisher Plow back in 1987 for 500 bucks,it had a smokey 305 with a burnt valve....(pictured below).I've owned 4 other "plow trucks" since...(my current one is the maroon '82 GMC K2500 )..
I would not want to even think about having to rely "only" on those tractors or walk behind blowers--after 6" or so,they are pretty much useless,and beat you to death using them for hours to clear that much area..I use them only to clear the walks and paths to sheds,etc,where the truck cant fit in..
But,after last year,and several other years when we had up to 36" fall in less than 24 hours,I found out the trucks are NOT always able to push that much snow,even if you stay out all thru the storm trying to stay ahead of it--and yes,the town DPW plows piling up a wall of salted snow higher than the truck's hood often made it impossible to get to the street,even if I could push all the snow in the driveway aside...
If you could not whittle that wall of icy snow away a little at a time,you had no choice but to shovel it by hand,or pray someone drove by with a ten wheeler plow truck or loader,to get it out of the way..there have been several instances where a 3/4 ton plow truck is just not up to the task in recent years..also,manuverability in a full sized truck with a plow is quite limited on a driveway thats only 20 feet wide at the widest part..
There has been an increasing number of "severe" winter storms hitting here ,and I have been tempted to sell my trucks and tractors,and get a skid steer or a farm tractor sized bucket loader tractor...then I could be pretty much able to move the snow from all the areas ,not just the driveway..and being able to lift the snow away and dump it elsewhere is the best feature...plus no registration,insurance,inspections,etc,and beating a truck to death using it to plow.....
By the way--the storm pictures were taken on April 1st,1997,the "April Fools Blizzard"...so "spring" doesn't always mean rain here!..we got 36" overnight,of wet cement snow that was near impossible to plow,I had to pile every heavy item in my garage in the trucks bed,and bet the thing bad,just to get a path open to the street...