The weight of that snowplow is going to be hard on the front end. The track bar ends tend to wear out and the steering wobbles. Look at Lukeslink dot com for a discussion of this.
The heavy loads at low speeds of plowing snow are hard on the automatic transmission.
I own a 1995 Dodge 2500 with the Cummins Diesel. It has 270K miles on it, gets 20 mpg empty on the highway, pulls like a locomotive. I got it cheap ($1500) due to what turned out to be a broken snap ring in the transfer case. (A $6.00 fix). I like the truck but I know it has its weak points.
I think $7K is way too much money for the one you are looking at. A friend of mine just recently bought a 2004 Ford F150 4x4 with 20000 miles from a dealer for $10K.
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