For those who do not know the difference: ABS has a much higher impact resistance the PVC, which might explain why those who have tried this with PVC end up breaking the pipe. ABS is also stiffer so it will retain its shape better over the length of the blade. In addition, plastic pipe usually comes in different wall thicknesses, RE Schedule 40 or Sched 40, or Schedule 80, (sched 80), which is the thicker wall thickness of the two.
Thank you so much for this video. I am looking to buy a house with a driveway that is 650 feet in length and I was trying to figure out how to plow it. I’m so glad I found your channel.
I saw your other video about using this piping and I immediately went and bought a piece of ABS pipe and installed it. I have not used the snowshoes anymore, as I really like the job it does with the pipe...and as you said, saves me throwing gravel all over my lawn that I used to need to rake up every spring. Thanks for this hack! Works amazing and never had to replace the pipe in 2 winters use now.
For my 72" old Fisher Plow mounted on a 1981 Kubota 295, my son fabricated a piece of 2" pipe on the cutting edge. It works really well! and leaves the driveway gravel behind during plowing. Thanks for leading this terrific idea!
Def smart. I just bump my blade up a little bit, itd be too time consuming for me to hop in and out and keep having to put it on and take it off. If 90% of what i did was gravel you bet your ass id love one of these!
I think PVC pipe is built sorta like hollow-core doors. They have a strong skin on the inside and outside, but the inside is weaker filler material. It doesn't take long on the gravel to wear through the thin outer PVC. Old ABS pipe was solid plastic so it would last much longer. I see some commenters are saying that newer ABS is also made with a weaker core. I don't know about that, so the point would be when you buy an ABS pipe for this, check the end and look at the cross-section to see if the pipe is solid plastic or layers with weaker stuff in the middle. I'm gonna try this -- if our local store has solid wall pipe. I don't have a snow plow but rather the front bucket on my sub-compact Kubota BX25. It's impossible to get the snow and not pick up a little bit of gravel.
Great idea! I tried this on my heavy duty Bush Hog 40-06 rear blade for my tractor. The cutting edge is quite a bit larger than an ATV blade, so I used 4” PVC pipe to fit over the attachment bolts. Quite easy to put on. Tried it out briefly and it works great! This blade is made for moving dirt, so it is very heavy and digs into my gravel and grass. I had tried running the blade backwards, but it has a pronounced blade support structure that hampers snow from rolling to the side. Blizzard here tonight, so tomorrow will be good test!
You must have a State license and a permit to use electrical materials. You may say you are plowing snow with it but it could be seen as commercial electrical work. You're looking at big fines, maybe prison. If you happen to bend that conduit you better hope it doesn't kink or it won't pass inspection. Did you ream or file the end that you cut? That inspector where you live is sneaky too. He'll get you, it's just a matter of time.
There is a lot of ABS pipe that is now called cel-core. It is much weaker. Closed cell foam core with abs liner on the inside and outside. Not as strong as the old regular solid pipe.
Great trick. If you can find ABS, it should serve you much better than PVC, since PVC doesn’t do well in cold temps. Might be better than skid shoes. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Roland...fellow Canadian here...Nova Scotia to be exact...i literally just did this technique. I cut 1 1/2" black ABS pipe to 66" to fit my plow blade. Then i set up the table saw with the blade just making it through the pipe thickness. Tried first to pound it on but no success. Then i cut a V in one end and Shazam, went on no problem. Fortunately we have no snow right now...like +8 right now...December 28th. Am looking forward to plowing tho with little damage to my lawn and gravel. Cheers man...love the videos. BTW...i run cfmotto 800 ex eps...love the machine. Happy trails all..!!!😊
Yes, indeed...it works on an 8.5-foot Hiniker plow blade on a pick-up truck for me too. Not a new idea...just perform a search at RU-vid for "plow edge guard" or a similar string. I tried a PVC pipe....chewed to pieces in 25 feet; a steel, corner fence post....twisted like pretzel after two hours. Best solution: 2-inch steel pipe...sliced longitudinally to fit over blade with a plasma cutter or angle grinder....held on by three 3/8-inch, grade 8 bolts with nylon-lock nuts. One can plow a gravel road in full float mode without lifting/pushing any rocks. Best to allow a thin crust of snow/ice to build up on the top of the gravel to allow the guard to skim the top. If your gravel layer is very thick, you may still push rock with an edge guard without a buffer layer.
how does this not climb up over the snow. I have a polaris with one of their plows and took the skids off the bottom because they would dig into the gravel. Not sure how that can just stay down or does the plow need to be weighted?
I'd like to know what quad you are using? Suzuki KING QUAD? I think I heard you shifting. Does anyone make a manual shift, Gear drive quad, anymore? If I knew, I would buy 2 !!! ;>)
You most likely have people who do not even own a ATV or truck that have never plowed making assumptions. Arm chair experts all over the internet. I say this because for some reason this video was suggested to me and I haven’t plowed for many years or looked it up.
Hey, you stole my idea, and I stole it from someone else. I have been using this hack for a few years now and it works great. Use a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade to cut the pipe, its a lot safer.
Sorry bud but thirty five years of plowing here including gravel parking lots. As soon as your plow hits resistance it leans forward with the springs stretched and those pipes will be up of off the ground just like plow shoes do and become a total loss. We tried many things on our six plow trucks over the years.
