These things are not toys!

[Doc]

Thanks. Im thinking about picking up a wheeler and a plow for next winter. Ive always liked Yamahas. Looks like the 400 does a good job.

10 years of beating the hell out of it every winter and it still loves shoving that snow around. I thought about getting an old pick-up truck with a plow, but you can't beat the maneuverability of an ATV. I can put snow in places a truck cannot even go. You do have to bundle up because you are exposed to the elements, unlike a truck. I have been forced to go out there in below zero weather with high winds, and that wasn't a lot of fun. Also, when you are down doing the road front, it kind of sucks when the town plow comes blowing by and buried you under a wall of sloppy, salty, snow .... lol. I've had that happen a couple times.

 

As far as power, I have never even made the thing grunt yet. In fact years ago, I used to plow with a two wheel drive Yamaha 285 cc and never ran out of power. I did have occasional traction problems with that one, but things had to be pretty ugly to give me any problems.

 

The only complaint that I have is that I cheaped out on the plow lift system. Instead of going with a winch driven plow lift, I went with the manual. When you get into sopping wet snow like in the picture, the plow will not shed the snow all that well and I wind up lifting the plow and a ton of snow. That can get real ugly, real quick. That kind of takes all the fun out of it.