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Here's my new track machine for pulling the house around. I sold the orange tucker last spring, it was awesome but it was slow and expensive to run. This yellow one is geared higher. It goes much faster and is way easier on fuel. Future plans are to convert the cab to full length like this one for hauling passengers.
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Now that's how you roll! Very cool Dave. Does a machine like that make one a popular person? I could see becoming a "Good Buddy" pretty easily with one of those.
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Yes, people tend to take an interest in the machine, especially right after snowstorms when they have big fish houses way out on the lake and they can't get to them with the truck.
lol.
no damn snow this winter so far though.
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Here's my new track machine for pulling the house around. I sold the orange tucker last spring, it was awesome but it was slow and expensive to run. This yellow one is geared higher. It goes much faster and is way easier on fuel. Bought a frikkin' trail groomer to go fishin'. You're amazing...
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Wow... I've never seen a "house" that big for ice fishing. Congrats.
Did you guys have much of an ice fishing season this year? We barely got several inches of snow this whole winter in IL and the temperatures haven't been low enough for thick enough ice. I don't think I have seen one person ice fish this year which is very unusual in my ten plus years living in this state.
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We're still hard at it, ice fishing wont end up here for a long time. yukonal, I'm very sorry about Minnesota's lack of snow this winter, it's completely my fault for buying this big snow machine.
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You been catchin' any keeper 'eyes, or mostly saugers?
How thick's the ice?
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fishing slowed some in Feb but we've been getting nice eyes, saugers and big perch.
Ice must be 30" +
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Well, I'm bumping this thread to report some changes to the hard water fishing equipment. We've made an upgrade to our ice fishing house. Old foamy is being replaced with this. The house is 8'x20' with a V front so 24' total. It's in the lowered position in the picture above. With the turn of the lift cranks on each side and also the tongue it raises itself up onto it's wheels. Inside pics. Anxious for ice.
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The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
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Can you get me a job where you work?
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Yeah but...then what would I do?
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Thats a sweet wheelhouse.
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Way cool Dave! You're off the charts my man.
How's the deer and grouse hunting gonna be this fall? I'm thinking about a week in DL for the opener.
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I think deer is going to be fine around DL, not sure about birds. Up this way the fighter jet type chickens had a good hatch (sharp tail and hungarians). I'm not sure about the timber chickens. Our deer around camp seem to be making a bit of a comeback now that the TB war on deer is over (crossing fingers).
We had such an early spring and a nice summer, I'm not sure on the ruffed grouse hatch but I can't think of why it would have been down.
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Is that a custom trailer or is there a dealer for them?
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look up ice castle fish houses.
I think they are built in Montevideo MN.
There are several other manufacturers out there for this sort of thing too.
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Way cool Dave! You're off the charts my man.
How's the deer and grouse hunting gonna be this fall? I'm thinking about a week in DL for the opener.
Dober Looks like the Ruffies are in the downward decline of the 10 year cycle. http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/recreation/hunting/grouse/grouse_survey_report12.pdf
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Gezzz Dave,
It seems like only yesterday when you put together "Old Foamy" and I thought that Ice House was quite the rig, but now this...Wow.!
Very Cool, Man.. Very, very cool..!
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Forgive the ignorance of one who lives where the water never even gets hard enough to walk on, let alone drive . . .
How do you keep the fish houses from freezing solid to the lake ice surface, or how do you beak it loose if it does??
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