Making lake ice

With the cold, frost quakes have been hitting the news. I took a walk down to the lake last night and I never remember hearing as much "ice quaking" as I did last night. I'm going to have to get the auger out and see just how much is out there. I have been hearing from the ice fishermen that there's 24" plus.

Hollywood wrote: How does the lesbomobile handle the bitter cold? then felt like I was driving on square tires at -25 this morning.

So far good but, yesterday after work it was a very slow crank and then thankfully it fired. I did bring the jump box with me just in case. I've been thinking about a new battery since it still has the original 9year old one in it. At home it does sit outside but the block heater gets plugged in. Yes on driving square tires for a couple miles!

Try f12 again, derp. Might take 2 tries with the cold temps.

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I've been thinking about you Pete and wondering how you are surviving that crazy cold weather up there. Sounds brutal.

Mail halted today and tomorrow here in Michigan. Had a little hop to my skip while walking in the woods today enjoying the scenery.

We are not nearly as cold here, -16 supposed to reach a high of at least 4! outside chance of getting all the way up to 6! Global warming will be here this weekend as the forecasters are calling for 45-50. I am patiently waiting for the results of Pete's experiment.

Morfoot wrote: I don't how y'all do it.... That's just too friggin cold for this Georgia Boy. When it's that cold out do y'all still put a lamp under the engine cover to "warm" it up a bit to keep the antifreeze from freezing? I acquired a marine engine compartment heater that I put under Miss Scarletts bra as temps in the 19F might chill down the garage to below freezing and yes she still has lake water in her veins... Stay warm you guys....

No, some of us just worry about cheaping out on the -50 anti freeze and not splurging on the -100 stuff.

Put it in a small glass container that won't bulge.and fill it all the way

And mix it in the ratios like mentioned above

It looks like it's 49 degrees indoors on your thermometer, better throw a few more logs on the fire

Dang Pete, that is wicked cold, my son has a home in North Pole Alaska and it is warmer than you are seeing!   I saw the temp dip just a bit below 50 here and I am cold. You guys must be frozen.   Stay warm, you know we are in global warming so your record temps are not real.   Just pretend you are warm!   
Hope you stay safe, the body is not meant to survive at those temps.

Gary S wrote: It's all relative - I had to wear long pants to go to lunch in the boat today.......

Are we going to have to go through this again?

Pete

With your forecast for the next few days, you need to do something useful like mix up some of that pink minus 50 antifreeze in a couple of different batches like a 50% water to 50% antifreeze mix and another one with a 25% water to 75% antifreeze mix.

Fill a couple of glass jars stick them outdoors and see if the jars are still in one piece in the morning.

No need to sit outdoors watching them all night Gary might think differently though

8122pbrainard wrote: Now we're making some real good lake ice. I'm at -27 with no wind chill.

We managed to put 100 miles on yesterday Pete. Was a balmy -4 when we got back to the cabin.

Now we're making some real good lake ice. I'm at -27 with no wind chill.