Plowing with a 2010 Tundra?

Any advice on plowing for residential homes this winter with my 2010 tundra ? Ext cab long bed. Good idea bad idea. Get a f-250, 350. Upgrades to tundra for plowing. Best plow for tundra etc...? TIA

 

I’ve seen tundras with plows. It’ll work. Traction might be your biggest issue. Winter tires would help.

 

It should be minimally a 3/4 ton truck with sandbags in the back of the truck.

 

As far as weights/capacity, a Tundra long bed with the 5.7 V8 isn't that far off of a V8 F250. Put weight in the bed, I'm sure it will do fine. Just undercoat the shit out of the frame and underside of the bed, these trucks rust like crazy in those two areas.

 

I think the idea is the put a ton of Salt in the bed to be able to offer more full service plowing?

 

You will have to get a smaller plow since even on some of the 3/4 tons, I have heard of guys upgrading their front springs to hold that weight. I don't thing the Tundra would be able to do one of those cool boss plows that is like a transformer.

 

You don't want to have salt anywhere near a Tundra. The beds rust bad enough without salt.

 

Plowing and spreading salt go together like rust and Tundra though

 

I have used a 2012 Crewmax 4.6L to plow 1+ miles of class 4 road in Northern Vermont for 2 winters. I have a smaller BOSS V-Plow (7'6") and I keep 280lbs of sandbags in the bed next to the tailgate. When the snow is deep and heavy (like 14" of wet snow) I can run the 1st pass in a V even uphill (250 ft. of vertical over the mile) if I happen to be at work when the snow falls , then push back the sides with 2 more passes. Typically we get around 100" of snow each winter. I run in 4 Hi with studded snow tires. I have changed the transmission fluid after each plowing season.
Overall it seems okay so far. The truck does squat a bit when I lift the plow up. I might consider bolstering the springs with some of those big dense rubber inserts. Anyone tried that?