Best set up to remove snow on gravel driveway

Plowed about 4-5 football field areas last winter with rubber tired Deere 332g with plow and big bucket.
Plow works very good in 2-3 inches on road, but if packed and deeper, then gets hard to move sideways.
Did make up this bucket setup with conveyor belt that worked good for long pushes. Put studs in my rear tires also, and it helped greatly.
Every pace is different.
Simon C

All of this plowing was done on packed down dirt with snow pack. Use to take minimum 12 hours to do most of job even with this setup. Conveyor belt arms come off in less than 2 minutes.
An $18000 Metal pless plow will do it as fast but not for less than $500 of supplies with little welding and few holes drilled. I plowed at least 350 hours like this, and at good speeds most of the time I would of worn out a set of tracks totally. Rubber tires way cheaper for plowing snow.
What ever works best for you.
Simon C

I like the idea of adding sides to a standard bucket. Could also add removable sides to a angle plow.
I'm only doing my own paved driveway. I don't windrow. I push it all forward to 2 different places on the yard. Unless I'm not home and we get dumped on quickly, I never let it accumulate more then a few inches

The snow push or box blade is great for long pushes into targeted dump sites. The bucket always seems like a waste of time.
I clear about 3 acres with 2 driveways and a big central yard. If it’s over 8 inches I like to use the blower for the driveways but the blower sucks in the yard because you have to blow it more than twice to get it where you want it.
I have tracks on a cat 287b. I’ve been plowing snow and moving dirt with it for 6 years and haven’t worn out the tracks.

This feller cut out a tire for his skid steer. It looks to me that he is on a gravel drive in the video.

Mobiltech said:

The snow push or box blade is great for long pushes into targeted dump sites. The bucket always seems like a waste of time.
I clear about 3 acres with 2 driveways and a big central yard. If it’s over 8 inches I like to use the blower for the driveways but the blower sucks in the yard because you have to blow it more than twice to get it where you want it.
I have tracks on a cat 287b. I’ve been plowing snow and moving dirt with it for 6 years and haven’t worn out the tracks.

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20 years ago I plowed snow in a large industrial park with a Unimog U1200 and a 12’ multi section Schmidt blade.

Back then I am not sure if push boxes even existed…. Sure could have used one though! A modern skid steer; especially a large one like your Cat 287 would easily out perform my old set up.…