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Originally posted by jlanger:
Ever seen the ice highways up in Canada? These are used by semis to haul heavy items that can't be airlifted to remote areas in the arctic, They lose a few trucks every year but evidently it's not dangerous enough to lose profitability.
Saw a show on that on the History Channel, pretty good.
That highway is tested big time before any trucks go out on it. I just cant see why someone would drive out on a lake just for fun though.
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The ice on Muskegon Lake used to get very thick. I remember walking from MKG to NMKG across the lake one year, and the ice was more than 18" thick in some spots. It doesn't seem to freeze over as often, or stay frozen anymore though. Anyone know why?
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When I lived in NE Montana, a couple vehicles a year would get lost in the town reservoir. Usually, it was guys driving out to the shed they had set up for ice fishing (every year we had a mini-town out on the ice with orderly streets and everything lined up all nice). Except there was this one time a county road commissioner drove a Caterpillar road maintainer out on the ice and lost it nearly immediately.
The local tow guys knew better than to drive out on the ice though. They towed out all the vehicles in the spring.
P.S. Ice gets pretty thick at -30.
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Someone at work was telling me about seeing a guy drive onto a lake where they were ice fishing, driving a big 4WD pick-up, TOWING a trailer with an ATV on it. He proceeded to drive across the lake to his traps. He then went from one trap location to another with the truck and the trailer, rather than use the ATV.  An update on the story was in tonight's paper. It seems the F250 (a diesel I found out) had sunk to the bottom (that's why I didn't see it yesterday on the way home). They are trying again to retrieve it, by cutting a 20 foot by 30 foot hole in the ice, and dragging it across the bottom to get a better grip. If it works they will try to do the same with the other truck. You can try this link for the story: http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/CC4E2E2C58912D3805256E2300630949?Opendocument
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Originally posted by CRZYDRVR:
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It only serves to remember that frozen lakes and ponds need to be tested real well before setting foot on them!
I would never set foot, let alone drive a TRUCK on to a frozen lake. You just never know.
Well, you're in New Mexico, aren't you? When I was a kid in Bel Air, Maryland, we'd ice skate on frozen ponds all the time. I only fell in once.... You do get a feel for the thickness pretty quick. Usually, we'd take a friend's rather large dog along and send him out first to check things out. As to the truck thing, I would imagine the state EPA would also want to talk to the owners about the small matter of cleaning up ten to twenty gallons of fuel, and a few quarts of oil, that are now polluting the water.
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Originally posted by gwellington:
Usually, we'd take a friend's rather large dog along and send him out first to check things out. As to the truck thing, I would imagine the state EPA would also want to talk to the owners about the small matter of cleaning up ten to twenty gallons of fuel, and a few quarts of oil, that are now polluting the water.
Speaking of the EPA, I wonder what PETA or the SPCA would say about you guys sending a large dog out onto the ice to see if he falls in!  
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Originally posted by ChriSVT:
Originally posted by gwellington:
Usually, we'd take a friend's rather large dog along and send him out first to check things out. As to the truck thing, I would imagine the state EPA would also want to talk to the owners about the small matter of cleaning up ten to twenty gallons of fuel, and a few quarts of oil, that are now polluting the water.
Speaking of the EPA, I wonder what PETA or the SPCA would say about you guys sending a large dog out onto the ice to see if he falls in!
Yes, well, I was wondering who'd bring that up. Uh, we were young and didn't know any better? Actually, old Duke knew the ice better than we did--there were times he flatly refused to go out, and he was too big to push...and I don't ever recall him breaking through, though, as I said, I did once (when, of course, Duke wasn't with us).
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