I purchased my 2015 570 base model new in February, 2015, along with a 60" KFI Open Trail steel straight plow. Thursday, 12/17 was the first time I got to use the plow. We had just a few inches of wet snow, but I’ll take it! The 5 years previous to my Sportsman, I was riding a smaller Arctic Cat 366 with a much lighter plastic 52" plow. It did the job, but was no comparison to the Sportsman. This 570 pushed that much heavier steel plow through the heavy, wet snow like a champ. And I didn’t even need to chain up. We don’t get too much snow here, we might see one dumping of 6"-8", but otherwise pretty mellow. I was just really impressed at the way the 570 did the job.