Now that it's gettin hot how about something cool?
I pulled these out of my archive...
I just want to say right off the bat, I WAS NOT DRIVING AND TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY! With that said, these pics are actually WORSE then they appear, the skidder operator (refered to here after as the late captain nemo) did not tell anyone he was "stuck" until late that night. This is the next day, night time temp? 20 below zero daytime temp? 10 One Big solid block of Timberjack and Beaver droppings.
In pic number 2 the guy you see walking towards the skidder has a power auger over his shoulder. We drilled dozens of holes around the skidder and then toward shore.(this was mostly water(ice), Nemo had driven out to the "island" in the back of pic to site see. the mud you see is thrown up on the ice from wallowing around trying to get out.) We then took clean saws and played connect the dots till we had a channel cut clear to shore, which was about 40 yards. Our other skidder was no match for this job, we hired a guy with a D9 in the next town to come out. We could of Killed Nemo. There was 6 of us augering and sawing for most of the day and the temp never got above 10 degrees. This was an 80 in the middle of a 15,000 acre club proberty that is managed by thier own cunsulting forester. He had told Nemo to clear off the island since most of it had been girdled by beavers, but wait till it was froze, So he did have permission to be out there. It was plenty cold enough, but any body that ice fishes knows that you stay away from ice that has vegetation growing through it. It isn't ever safe.
Jeff
