snow plow

Bummer. I was hoping the answer would be a resounding "hell yeah the taco's got that, easily!"

 

With the light stuff, sure no problem. But with heavy snow, the taco will struggle with such a long driveway.

 

Maybe I'll buy a plow for my side by side and see how that handles it next winter. If the side by side can handle it then I'd have no doubts about the taco. But like you said, a foot of fluff is one thing, 8" of heavy wet stuff is another.

 

My driveway is around 400 ft, no hills
My Curtis handles it fine.

 

Both my neighbor and i have long steep drives, i snowblow with a tracked snowblower. But, my neighbor gets his driveway plowed, and the guy has a full size diesel with sander. Betting on flying up the drive to plow down is not always going to be a good idea. Half the snows you'll make it, half you wont. I see a lot of plows on tacomas, not a lot of clearance when up

 

I plow my driveway and several neighbors just because. Occasionally they will pay me some money, but I used to help them when I only had a snowblower too. I live on a dead end street and if the city hasn't gotten to it, I usually clean up the dead end too. I have a scanguage that monitors transmission temp and I've never had a problem. I think you will find the Tacoma is more than capable of plowing any snow. You just wont move as much snow as fast as a bigger truck would. I have the Western suburbanite and it works for me. It is not the most heavy duty plow setup but its effective. Good luck in whatever you choose to do.
I love having the plow on my truck. I don't think ill ever go back to being without one.

 

I was thinking the sububranite/homesteader, but i heard from a few its not heavy enough at times to scrape. Any problems?

 

If you want to get down pressure for back dragging snow it definitely is a weaker point for the suburbanite or homesteader. They are pretty light, I think the whole setup is only 275 lbs. It will do it, I do it in my driveway, but it wont scrape as clean as a heavier plow would or one that has hydraulic down pressure like a SnoWay. I looked at the Snoway when I was looking for a plow, but I found a great deal on the used Western that I now have so I couldn't pass it up.

It will scrap clean moving forward, but back dragging is a weak point.

 

I should say that if price isnt much different then I would suggest you choose a "better" plow setup like a SnoWay or whatever. I chose the suburbanite because of the great deal and low price I found on a used one. I bought it used from another Tacoma owner and transferred the wire harness from his truck to mine in his driveway.
If I was paying more for a plow setup then I would say yes, spring for a plow with down pressure.

I like the lightweight plows on the Tacoma. I don't feel like I am beating on my truck when I leave the 275lb plow on my truck. I think a heavier plow might change how I feel about that.

 

It also depends on what your driveway is made up of..
I have gravel , so the plastic edge doesn't do to much damage.

 

I got my Snowdogg new and installed with backdrag edge for $3800 4yrs ago. At the time homesteads was about $3400 installed. Glad I got snowdogg. Plow weighs 400lbs, stainless molboard 7.5ft blade.