Eh, we bought the tractor, we figured we might as well get the snowblower for it. Have a rear PTO hookup brush hog for it (think giant spinning blade of doom), backhoe with two sized buckets, front bucket loader with screw on forks (turns it into a makeshift forklift), and a front PTO street sweeper (never used it...it was free).
Just rolled over 400hours this summer, gotten a fair amount of use out of the thing. It also makes a hood engine hoist.
Plus when I do the driveway, I do mine, my grandparents down the road (I can get a pretty good drift going if the road is still snowy going around the corner...hehe), and I've been know to be nice and do the end of the new neighbors as they shovel their driveway and the plow truck deposits a 5 foot tall hard packed wall at the end sometimes. Plus, my driveway is kinda long. Used to take a couple hours to do it with a walk behind blower.
So no, not really overkill.
I remember way back in highschool someone drove their tractor to school...true story.
