Homemade snowplow help

I have a Farmall A and a home made snow plow blade. It looks like a cut off grader blade. There is no
metal tooth/blade at the bottom of the plow. Can
I just fashion a 1/4-3/8 inch thick mild steel plate
that I mount or should this be a piece of hardened
steel custom made blade?

Since the plow will be used on a gravel driveway, does
it make sense to mount a couple of large metal wheels
behind the blade to keep the blade at least a quarter
inch off the gravel? Do the wheels just make big
ruts in compacted gravel?

Thanks for any and all useful information.

Douglas Stockman
dstockman@pol.net
Rochester, NY

Most plows use skid shoes rather than wheels, but yes, it's a good idea to fashion something to keep the cutting edge up off the ground a bit. This is especially useful for early snows over ground that isn't quite frozen yet. They can be a bear to plow, and you wind up with about as much gravel as snow.

County/State maintenance garages will frequently part with used edges off the big plows that could be cut down for use on your rig, might be worth checking out.

Probably you would need to torch a foot or two off the end to fit an A sized plow. But they should be cheap enough, and there are already bolt holes in them. You would need to drill corresponding holes in your plow, if you didn't want to make the commitment to weld it up, which would also work.