FWIW
I have plowed for north of 40 years with just about everything known to man. A back blade on an 8N, dozer (home made floats), quads, trucks, even a couple jeeps, one of which I got from Schweitzer Mountain. Jeep frames are garbage.
Considerations, blade weight or power down, blade width, MOUNT, electrical and how fast or often do want to plow ? The crap I get in late Oct/early Nov is usually wet, heavy slop. Miserable. Doing it with an open cab/quad/sxs SUCKS. Your wet, your NOT happy and the "snow" refuses to cooperate. You are literally pushing heavy water and not the nuke kind. Later in the year, when it is colder than a well diggers ~ss, it is fluffy, up over the top of the blade in your face type snow. Again, open cab, short height blade, and all that. With a quad/sxs, back blading ? Forget it. No where near enough blade weight. Thus enter the truck mounted plow. Oh yeah ! Heated cab, nice cup of coffee, just out livin' the life ! Bullsh~t. Yep, a truck mounted blade is good for doing distance, moving snow and allot of it. My personal experience, and that of every one of my friends that plows is that you better plan on doing a shit ton of maintenance and you DO get wear and tear on your truck. As far as electrical, I run dual batteries under the hood, plus 2 yellow top RV batteries, 160amp alternator V/A gauge, trans cooler, trans filter, temp gauge. To qualify the set up, this is on an F350 CC/SB with a western 9 1/2ft pro-plow. The blade is HEAVY. I put the back blade lip on it and I run a snow flap on the top. This setup flat moves snow, but it absolutely SUCKS around tight areas. Thus enter the quad with a blade. This is NOT something special, the polaris version, winch up and freespool down, get off and kick the snot out of its frozen ~ss the get it to angle. This is sterling in and around the house, front of the garage, trail to the barn and shop. It works, it has floats, you just have to stay within the confines of its ability. I DO run a battery tender on the truck and the quad. I have not had the electrical give out on the quad, but a much smaller blade, winch up free spool down.
All of that being said, I still wind up with the skidsteer cleaning out the sides of the trails I make with the quad. The truck has enough weight, Detroits F/R, to move my edges back if I must, if it is not doing it, I grudgingly fire up the D4. Your much better off finding a place to push snow too and early plowing move your edges WAY back. After a few freeze/thaws it gets a bit sporty trying to move it, even a dozer. Steel tracks on snow......story for another day.
Punchline is use what you can afford. My quad is an XP1000, all dealer crap on it. I do like the MOOSE rollover plow better, not sure why though. I have never tried to plow with the golf cart. The truck is the truck. Big, heavy, great for moving a bunch of snow in a reasonably straight line.
I do have a guy down the road a ways, he is pretty high steppin', got himself a "Northstar" Ranger. He has a joystick control but I do not know if it is full hydraulic. Pretty dang sure he would never settle for actually getting out of the heated cab to angle the blade, so there is that. He does his entire driveway/place with it. He did hire a plow truck to push his edges back this year once already.
His works, what he gains in small size, he loses in weight. HOW you plow is probably almost as important as what you do it with. If you have the ability to plow any time during a storm and stay ahead of it, a quad will do it. I've done it. That being said, if you get off work, haul ~ss home and try to move wet heavy snow in the dark with a deep freeze coming on later, you have your work cut out for you.
Not certain if any of that made sense or helped.
YMMV
