My Craftsman does fine for lawn mowing and towing my little trailer around, wish it had a little more power, have to go really slow when I occasionally mow the pasture.
Problem is with snow plowing, just have a small hand lifted snow plow. It will move a surprising amount of snow, sometimes the first pass can take awhile if the snow is deep. Issue is when you are mounding the snow pile and have a fair amount of pressure on the blade the shift lever takes quite a bit of force to get it out of forward so a true hydro-static transmission would be nice.
I got spoiled when my last few years at work they got me a nice JD, with power steering and front lift. When I first started with the school district I had a push mower and a little 2 cycle rubber blade type snow blower. They eventually got me a nice Honda track drive blower, it would really throw the snow, even packed plowed snow but did give you a work out. Had a Cub Cadet for a while but they cheaped out and got me a small, home model which wasn't really up to the amount of snow I had to move, also had no power lift so had to lift the snowblower by hand.
I remember going to the maintenance shop after a snow storm and the guys would be sitting around complaining about how tired they were, I'd say "are your hands sore from working the plow's joystick or did you get overheated because you forgot to turn the heat down".
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