When I bought my Cub Cadet LT1050, I bought the optional 46" blade for it.
My main use was cleaning snow around the building and sidewalk. Had 3 overhead doors that seemed to get a lot of snow blown up against them.
The blade initially worked OK with the fluffier snow and before ice developed. Tire chains are a must at that point.
The front building was poorly insulated and we would get snow melt from the roof and then a long ice log (for lack of a better word) would build up at 2 of the overhead doors.
Obviously, this blade and tractor were no match for the ice, so I built a 6' straight snow plow for my Cat diesel fork lift. Now, that had no issues with the ice. The drive tires were about an inch shorter than the tires on my truck, so that got chains as well.
That worked real well and could do the entire parking lot now, so gave the 46" blade to my brother for his Craftsman LT.
He used it until he moved, then gave it to my other brother who retrofitted it to my Dad's LT. My brother lives up there and he uses it all the time.
My Dad is 85. He won't mess with the manual operation plow, but will get out with the self propelled snow thrower.
Anyway, I really didn't like the manual operation of the blade, although it worked pretty decent in lighter stuff. I much prefer hydraulics tho.
