Best Quad Bike for deep snow

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So my car is useless in the snow, so what is the best quad bike I can get for not lottery winning amounts that will actually get thru this snow?

We have snow drifts of about 3feet!!
 
Assuming you're not going to drive into the 3 foot drifts (which will stop pretty much any quad) and instead go for the normal snow part and keep going up and down regularly so that the tracks are there for next time and it only has to fight its way through the new stuff.....

Edited to add, if it gets really really deep you could need a tracked one rather than a wheeled quad. Or a skidoo!

we went for an old Polaris 6 wheeled (whoooo) diesel quad. It coped all last winter with 3 months of snow (we are in Cairngorms). We specifically wanted diesel as (i) diesel fuel copes with ultra low temps much better (ii) we are a farm so have a red diesel fuel station so we dont have to go and get petrol in cans for it all the time.

It has a tipper on the back and can also pull a trailer (tho I wouldnt try that in the snow).

It depends if you are somewhere with the -20 degrees plus and months of snow that we get, if so, get a diesel, theres less choice but they are solid beasts. If not, then maybe a petrol one. which others are better qualified to recommend which one.
 
i have a Yamaha Grizzly 660, petrol , its fab , as i live on a moor in the highest village in Scotland and the snow we get for around 5 months of the year is knee high , with sub zero temps, it is a fantastic quad ,
 
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A Mule ;)
 
Quads are great craic in the snow, BUT you freeze ya butt off bigstyle!! Wooly hat, ski goggles, big momma gloves plus million layers!!!!!! Says she who has spent the afternoon messin about on one towin lads around on tote bags!!(halfton feed bags) On a little 450 2wd cos the grizzly(daddys bike) drink petrol!!!
 
You need an all in one suit and a balaclava!
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Our quad is relatively small, Arctic Cat 400. We have heated handlebars and fixed glovey type things on it for winter - but that hasn't arrived yet:D, stick a plow on the front and it will do 3' easily, ours does.

Quads are brilliant, I couldn't manage without mine, this morning it has pulled a 16' trailer with over 100' of logs in it, delivered hay, water, hauled several trees out of the bush and moved the horse trailer.

Also excellent for dragging screaming girls around at 40mph on sleds. No hills here you see :(
 
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