Adding PVC Pipe to Your ATV Snow Plow | Hack for Plowing a Gravel Driveway 

Been there. Done That. PVC works but is too brittle to use in cold temperatures. It will break the first time it hits a rock. Using orange flexible natural gas line, or polyethylene lawn sprinkler line is much more durable. But being round they both have safety drawbacks when cutting lengthwise. Kickbacks are a real concern! A big concern! I found a better solution.... Purchase a rubber horse mat. Usually found at TSC. Cut a strip to length and sandwich it to the blade. It will act just like the rounded PVC pipe by folding backwards when plowing. After years of plowing 2/10 of a mile of gravel this works best for me. It will tear after a while. The ends tear at the sandwich point. To ease this eventual repair I use three separate rubber strips. A long center strip for the plow that lasts forever and two ten inch pieces at the ends that are easy to replace. Happy plowing

discovered this years ago as a great way to keep from plowing up my driveway stone and grass that I had to plow over. found that it was only needed for the 1st 2 plows or until the stone was covered with a good base. used on my 4 wheeler and the snowblower too. I somewhat copied from a friend who fabricated a piece of pipe that he hydraulically controlled to raise or lower below the cutting edge of his commercial plow

Great idea gonna try that on my tub plow. Thanks for the tip

wow, never thought of doing that, I'm so tired of cleaning up stone every spring sure will try that this coming winter, thanks for posting, great idea and video

Thanks for sharing. Not sure I’d do this. At first, I though hey cool for my gravel driveway, but this would really reduce the functionality of the plow when moving heavy wet snow. I think I’ll give it a try though. Appreciate you taking the time to share.

I've been plowing a gravel driveway & never thought of this! Thanks for the video!

Thanks a bunch for this idea, my 3pt snow blower is out of commission at the moment but I needed an alternative way of moving snow. I mounted the PVC pipe to my eight foot back blade and it works great. I was going to weld on some shoes but this was easier and cheaper. And to all those who gave this guy the thumbs down, let me know when you move out of your parents basement and have to do your own laundry for the first time.

Love that idea thanks for sharing 👍👍

Definitely going to give this a try! Very cool hack !!

Not a bad idea..Going to try that tomorrow. If it works, I will certainly be thank this spring when I am not raking 200 lbs of gravel back into my driveway. Thank you.

I used an Arctic Cat with a 5 foot blade for years. Had the skids set up an inch to allow for the gravel. Worked ok but still dug up the lawn in spots every year, and left a thin layer of snow as expected. Picked up a Ranger 500 with the 66” blade. Just added 2” electrical conduit to the blade. We’ll see how well it works. Thanks for the tip.

Up here in Canada I usually just drive the tractor over the snow on the lane to build a snow base that gets hard over the winter. The frozen snow keeps the blade up out of the gravel.

I just raised the sliders on the plow. I used to dig in on hard packed snow and stops the machine. No more.

Very cool idea man. imma try this! I'm from New Brunswick and I bought a Polaris sportsman and a plow with a gravel driveway and find my blade will catch every now n then sometimes extremely hard lol flipping the blade down hard and freaks me out haha ...ps GOD BLESS U2 MAN!👍👍👍👍👍

I do this and it works great

Think that might help with my gravel driveway issues ! Gonna try this on my regular rear blade and box blade cutting edges so they won’t dig in. Thanks for the idea sir !

Hello from Iowa - new sub here! I picked up a Polaris with a snow blade (no spiffy wings on mine though) last year in preparation for winter and it made moving snow a breeze! Can’t wait to try your nifty advice next time we get snowed on. Looks like it protected the grass as well - thanks for sharing!

On my Boss 8' plow I put a 3" steel pipe like you did with the PVC to plow gravel drive. Worked well. First winter since it was paved and put a poly edge on the ATV. Works very well. Still keeping the pipe on the 8 footer still plows good on asphalt.

Thats a nice hack, If it gets rid of several inches only leaving an inch I call that a win. That 1 inch will melt pretty quick when the sun comes out

I'm going to try that. Thanks

Looks like it works excellent! Good Job

Nice! Just subbed. Have a great day!

Im going to try that on my plow thanks

When you started beating the pvc into place I was hearing Led Zeppelin Rock and Roll!

Maybe use a smaller diameter pipe, as it would be "sharper" and add some weights to the plow. Thanks for sharing.

I wonder if adding weight to the blade will help

Interesting idea. Seems like a great idea for the first plow before the ground really freezes. After that the plow doesn't seem to chew up the driveway that bad. I'm in a bit of a different scenario though, I have an 8' plow on my dump truck. If I could attach and remove that PVC easily enough I'd probably do it. Not sure how to do that though.

That worked out great! Kudos to the sub that tipped you off on that trick. That 4 wheeler seems to do a good job pushing the snow. If it was the same there as it was here the snow was pretty wet and heavy.

I just tried ABS tubing, stronger than pvc, it cracked and split down the center. I tried sch 40 pvc last week, that cracked and split down the center. Works fine on a paved drive, not so well on a gravel drive. Though works very nice on the lawn.

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cool idea, but for me, that bit of snow that's left means an icy driveway. when i plow, i wanna see gravel, lol. things usually freeze enough here that i don't have to worry too much about the cutting edge digging in too bad.

interesting and at first glance an attractive solution to all the gravel gouging. But what about the thin layer of snow and existing ice it leaves behind?

Now that is a useful hack!

I cut up a truck Mudflap and placed it on the bottom of my atv plow. Kept from picking up rocks on the gravel driveway.

Thanks for the idea ..... Couldn't I just put a small section of pvc pipe on both ends kinda how the shoes go ..... This leaving the middle cutting edge exposed and less likely to ride up instead of having the entire length covered in pvc

Great video

We're did you get the side wings

You need skids on the back side of the blade. You can adjust with washers to keep skid high enough.

We put a chicken coop in the middle of the backyard and I was wondering how much lawn I would dig up plowing the yard to the coop for feeding and collecting eggs or ccourse !! Thanks for fantastic idea, lowering the shoes did nothing.

On hard snow it will just ride up over. the cutting edge is there to cut into harder snow.

Great idea! Wonder how it would work on a 36”snow blower?? Think I’m going to try it....NJ

Didn't your plow blade come with gravel skids?

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Take the wings off and leave them off .. angle your blade and the problem of compacting the snow ❄ will not happen..the blade will cut through the snow better .

just pack down the first couple snows so you have a base to plow on...also maybe clean up some of the shit laying outside all winter.

Will this work on driveways without the finished asphalt layer? The diameter of the PVC is 2"... I have been looking for a solution as my cutting edge prematurely wears out on rough surfaced driveways! I have even tried the UHMW polymer blades, same thing as metal!

I get why you did that but doesn’t it leave a thin coating your making an ice rink

how long does that PVC last before it gets chewed up and need to be replaced?

What size tarp is that on your tent shed?

what kind of plow do you have

Holy crap, it’s McLovin! J/k

Weld a piece of black pipe to your cutting edge. I used 1” lasted 2 years before I ground it off when I got a new house with a paved driveway.

A much better way would be steel pipe PVC isn't going to hold up as well. I did a Steel pipe mod on the cutting edge of my snow blower for my gravel driveway, works great.

Get yourself a Pc. of heavy rubber (stiff) about 6" wide and 47" long and bolt it to the top of your blade, it keeps the snow from coming over the top of the blade.

How long does it last? I can imagine having to replace it after every snow.

I just adjusted the shoes on the blade so it doesn’t dig in the gravel

would think this would be done before the first snow fall...no?

I have a piece of rubber belt bolted to my plough , works way better and dont need any weights .

With the PVC on my back blade I can plow my 230 meter driveway in under 10 minutes, I posted a video of it.

I just put 2cs 3in on each end only don't ride up 👍

You don't have feet pads on your plow?

Anyone try this that has pavers ?

Add some weight on your plow to keep it from riding up as much.

I can't imagine why you would have wings on a plow used on a driveway

Is that 2" PVC

Why not use skid shoes like everyone else? Then adjust to height you want

As a retired wood shop teacher the cut you did on the table saw is about as dangerous as it gets. Don't cut stock that can spin with a tool that spins.

Intro to long

Meh, maybe if all I had was gravel but I have 30' of concrete followed by gravel. I prefer to get my concrete scraped as clean as possible and I just winch the plow up an inch for the gravel. Minimal rock scraping and does pretty much the same thing.

Just pave the driveway

Use ABS instead of PVC. Much more durable.

Obviously not frozen ground nor properly adjusted scags

Don't need the feet on with the pioe

If you had regular skid shoes on, you wouldn't push as much gravel as you did.

pack down your first snowfall with car. never pick up gravel all winter after that. same trick used for snowblower

I wonder how well this would work on my snowblower attachment. I hate cleaning the gravel off my lawn every spring.

Don't waste pipe or your time. Use a steel pipe. Plastic lasts about and hour

use steel pipe works a lot better.....

I think you need to drag your videos out longer. Maybe something like , "but first, I need to go get a cup of coffee" or "let's drive 20 minutes to the hardware store"... The video could be less than a minute but 7+ minutes to slit a piece of PVC! Everyone skipped ahead to get past the first 4 minutes of dribble.. (constructive criticism.... unless you get paid by the minute)

wax your plow face

Lose the music

Man!, clean up your yard! It looks like 💩