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It's all coming together. I was thinking wheels as the track is rough so need wheels to stop it snagging maybe. Pipe would be good because it is light flexible and strong. I think you would get away with frame been made out of 3x2 bolted directly through the towing hooks at the front. Good thing about wood is, it's cheap, you don't need to weld it, and you can make it the right length and shape.
The bottom could have some of those extra strong brushes used on heavy doors so that its not scraping directly on the floor - if that makes sense.
Without it being too involved i'd want some sort of damping, just to prevent it smashing itself apart or sending a shock through the whole car if it snags on the road. Something like a short leaf spring mounted horizontally between the 2 mounts then the plough mounted on the centre of the spring.
Also for those planning on clearing a normal road, be warned about the "elf n safety". A farmer was fined/billed by the local council for damaging the road when he cleared a rural road with his own equipment. I would hope that common sense would prevail but it appears we can't do any good deeds for fear of some sort of comeback.
It needs to have decent ground preasure. If the roads been driven on before you plough i think you will strugle, it would be impossible if aloud to freeze again. See the jake in the picture i posted?, That was having a tough time clearing a road that had frozen into a couple of inches of ice. You need something with serious weight and ground preasure to clear compacted snow. But if you get on it once its fallen i think the jimny will work great. A rubber strip on the bottom will help. Like this
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