I agree with Dave your chains are too tight, you should have them loose enough so as they pickup behind your tire one cross chain strikes the next. Those tires are the poorer type for chains, the old 45 degree tread works much better.
I've plowed a lot of snow in my day, with a lot of different machines. I still like the blade out front, and use a heavy box blade for a counter weight. Mankind was never meant to plow snow going backwards, if he was, he'd have been born with eyes on orther side of his head. Anyhow I started out using a Farmall H with a factory blade on a 31 loader. We used chains like you have and 1,200. counter weight. Went from that to 300 same idea and again on a 560. The beauty of the counter weight, you can get rid of it fast when not needed. I then plowed snow with 45 hp skid loaders, then an articulated Deere with power shift. I did some snow plowing with a Champion road grader. However for all the investment involved I still give top marks to my current snow plow machine, My Farmall 130, 7' angle blade, chains like yours, no chloride and with a heavy counter weight that I can drag snow away from buildings with.
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