How to Choose a UTV Plow Blade Size

The Blade Has One Job: Cover the Machine, Angled

Plow sizing looks like a simple bigger-is-better question and is not. A UTV plow spends its working life angled — tipped to one side so snow rolls off the edge instead of piling up in front of the tires — and an angled blade clears a path narrower than its stamped width. The rule that follows is the whole page in one sentence: choose the blade that still covers your machine's track width when it is angled, so your tires run in cleared snow instead of packing down the strip the blade missed. Buy for the width you clear, not the width you bought.

The KFI Ladder, Priced

Our UTV plow range is built on KFI complete kits — mount, Pro 2.0 push tube and blade matched to your machine, so the blade decision is the one real choice inside the kit. With the Pro-S steel blade, the ladder is the same flat pricing across the UTV kit range:

  • 54 inch — $733.85. The compact-machine size: narrower UTVs, tight driveways, gates and sidewalks where a wide blade simply does not fit the work. Also the size to choose when storage space is a real constraint.
  • 60 inch — $767.85. The default for mid-size machines and the most common answer overall: covers the track width of a typical mid-width UTV at angle, without asking the machine to push a wall of snow it cannot move.
  • 66 inch — $871.85. For full-size machines and longer driveways, where the extra width cuts real passes off the job and the machine has the weight and power to use it.
  • 72 inch — $910.85. The big-blade end of the range, for the widest machines and open lots. Six feet of blade in wet snow is a serious load — this size assumes a machine with the mass to match.

Steel is not the only blade in the kits: KFI's Pro-Poly blades run 60, 66 and 72 inches at $953.85 to $1,026.85 in the same kit structure. The full range, by machine, is in the KFI Plow Kits collection — one representative kit, priced exactly on the ladder above, is the Bobcat UTV kit. Smaller machines are covered too: the ATV kits start at a 48-inch Pro-S ($651.85) and a 50-inch Flex blade ($597.85). And if you are cross-shopping brands, our KFI vs Moose comparison prices both ladders on the same machines.

The Four Checks

  • Machine width first. Measure your machine's track width — or find it in its specs — then step up to the first blade that exceeds it at angle. A blade narrower than the machine leaves your tires running in unplowed snow on every pass, which is where traction and tempers go.
  • Weight is the second limit. Snow load scales with width and depth, and wet snow is dramatically heavier than powder. A big blade on a light machine does not clear faster; it just stops more often. If your machine is at the light end of its class, take the smaller blade of the two you are between.
  • Your surface decides the passes. Long, open drives reward width. Broken, gated, landscaped property punishes it — you will spend the saved passes maneuvering the blade around obstacles instead. Measure the tightest gap the plow has to pass through, not just the widest run.
  • The winch is part of the system. The blade lifts by winch (or a dedicated lift), so blade size and winch choice are one decision — our winch size for plowing guide covers the pairing, and the rope vs cable guide covers the part of the winch that plowing wears out fastest.

The Short Version

Mid-size machine, normal driveway: the 60. Full-size machine or a long drive: the 66. The widest machines and open ground: the 72. Compact machine or tight property: the 54. Every one of those is a complete KFI kit on the ladder above — find your machine in the KFI Plow Kits collection or start from the machine-by-machine breakdown in our KFI plow kits by machine guide. Still between two sizes — contact Dirti Motorsports with your machine and your driveway, and we will call it before you order.