Re: Ice
Gotta love early freeze up. I haul water for a drilling rig and get to test the ice thickness every morning. Push a ladder out on to the 1 1/2" thick ice, crawl out on the ladder a few feet and chop a new hole with the axe. Gets a little scarry when the first chop gets the cracking started. I did go through one time a few years ago. In Feb one time I walked out on the ice with my gas auger, stabbed the point into the ice and as soon as I got the auger fired up, down I went! Right up to my Knees. I laugh about it now but I was on a dugout and was lucky it was shallow. The thick ice can't come quick enough for me.