I use 3 inch steel pipe. Welded 3 1/4 inch 4x8 brackets to pipe and used the 3 bolts that hold the cutting edge of blade in place. If I had a larger pipe I would have used it.
Pipe won't prevent removing some gravel from drive. Dress out drive, level it, before it snows. The steel pipe will tell you when you are in the gravel at which point you lift it up. All the snow I remove goes in the road, not in the grass.
Some people think that having grass growing in gravel is a bad thing. Actually, it a good thing. Pipe will slide over frozen grass and all the gravel stays behind.
I made the best 8 frt snow blade for my FIL. It fits inside the bucket. It's not bolted to anything, just chained in so it can't fall out. I made it out of an 8 ft 2x12. Attached a 4 inch plastic pipe to the bottom. Braced it with wood, used steel straps to hold pipe in.
First home made blade is light weight. Second if the ground is unlevel, it won't dig in on one side like a back blade will. Third, I can push snow off the lawn and not disturb the grass. It removes no gravel either. It floats over the surface.
Someday, when I find an old back blade, I plan to design a blade that can float in 3D like the blade in my backhoe. Plan to make it as light as possible too. This will be my Round 2 it project.
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