Posted 11/22/2013 11:17 AM (#674946 - in reply to #674875) Subject: Re: breaking ice tips
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If you can get in far enough to lower you motor into the water do that and put it in gear with a little gas while still on the trailer. The thrust will break out a lot of ice!!
Darren
Posted 11/22/2013 4:45 PM (#675011 - in reply to #674875) Subject: Re: breaking ice tips
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Location: central Wisconsin
You do know that tomorrow is the gun deer opener in Wisco don't you? I highly doubt you are going to have frozen water on a river anyways. Worrying about nothing.
Posted 11/22/2013 8:00 PM (#675050 - in reply to #674875) Subject: Re: breaking ice tips
Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-)
Several rivers already have ice on them up to 1/2" near me. It is gun deer opener but I'll be on water after the skis also. If there is a fair amount have some one in back of boat breaking ice as you inch back in.
Posted 11/22/2013 11:02 PM (#675070 - in reply to #675007) Subject: Re: breaking ice tips
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Location: The desert
fish4musky1 - 11/22/2013 3:36 PM
Would shotgun blasts work?
Unlikely, and you'd need to use steel which would be a waste of money. If its thin enough for a shotgun to work, it's thin enough to beat with a solid object.
Posted 11/23/2013 8:21 AM (#675082 - in reply to #675050) Subject: Re: breaking ice tips
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Location: Wisconsin
wicked - 11/22/2013 8:00 PM
Several rivers already have ice on them up to 1/2" near me. It is gun deer opener but I'll be on water after the skis also. If there is a fair amount have some one in back of boat breaking ice as you inch back in.
This works well, and use a flat concrete shovel. Reach out from the back of the boat and make an arch the width of the boat, then the ice within the arch breaks easily. Back in a small section at a time. Had to break ice for quite some distance last week in Hayward.
breaking ice tips