David, does it have to be a blue one? I mean to match your "riding suit".[X(]
How long is your driveway going to be at your new place? A snowplow will sure come in handy - I speak from experience.
IMO I strongly recommend you look at the Yamahas. The 450 Grizzly isin your price range and can do everything you listed - noproblem. Once you start getting 500cc and larger the machines start getting much larger. The large size makes for more steering effort, larger turning diameter and limits where they can go in the woods due to their size.
Back to the snowplow. As far as I know Yamaha is the only one offering a Warn snowplow for only $69 when you buy a new ATV. You can actually pick either a snowplow or a winch for the $69. Only little stickler is install is additional, but I just did my plow install myself because I likewrenching(when it doesn't involve cussing). I like to understand how/why things work and it was quite simple.
The plow comes standard w/ a manual lift but works awesome with a winch. I bought a 2000# winch w/mount new off ebay, delivered to my door for about $140 including delivery. Again install was simple. I've only used the winch for plowing. Haven't had to get myself unstuck with it yet (knock on wood) cause I'm not a mudder type really.
I have the Bruin 350 Camo and am more than pleased with it's abilities. I of course plow with it, putt around on it, climb some hills, splash thru some water here and there, do work around the farm on it, etc.
I have a 6' X 8' trailer to pull it on and can pull the trailer with the ATV. I have pulled 1500+ pounds on the trailer thru the woods and across streams doing food plots. I think the best enjoyment I ever got out of it was getting a bunch of us and our deer out of the woods one evening thru some S. IL crop fields. The mud there is basically like a whipped heavy clayish consistency. I drove while our little buddy "the troll" and my nephew rode the back rack and another guy rode the front. With 2 deer dragging off the trailer ball we all putted across some major fields at about 3 - 5 mph. Once back at camp we all tipped a cold one to the Bruin and the success of our harvests.
I have no reason to beleive that you wouldn't besatisfied with a Bruin also.
I don't understand why camo ATVs come with black racks and wheelsso I camo-painted my racks up myself and they came out wonderful. I'll find the pics I previously posted and add the link. I have to be very sure of where I park it in the woods to be sure I can find it later sometimes. I also want to put some flat disk "hubcaps" on it and camo those too to hide the black wheels.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1046648&mpage=1&key=Bruin%2ccamo &#1046648
Never had a single type of problem with it and I think they are still available in Yamaha blue this year.
