collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: ? about ice removal  (Read 2158 times)

Offline BC CHASER

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 1393
  • Location: Sh!thole WA state
  • Si vis pacem para bellum
? about ice removal
« on: December 14, 2008, 09:52:34 PM »
So our ponds will be frozen for a while now I am guessing.  Any ideas on keeping it off other than breaking it up and raking it out?  I was thinking salt but thats a no no and I do not want to use chemicals, unless there is a non-toxic product out there that anyone knows of.  Thanks!
WA.MT.UT.AZ.KS.NM.CO.AK.NZ.
Lion Pride founding member

Offline Currency Trader

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 47
  • Location: Moses Lake
Re: ? about ice removal
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2008, 10:34:40 PM »
walk a big circle to make the hole....then lower one side of the large floating ice and push it under the intact ice.......alot less work and the opening looks alot more natural than raked out ice.....

Offline Happy Gilmore

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 5127
  • Location: Ronan, MT
Re: ? about ice removal
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2008, 12:38:07 PM »
I have heard that a small outboard motor running for a couple hours in the morning will clear a big area just through the warmer water under the ice will melt the top layer. Never tried it....wonder about an electric with a few batteries???
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt 1899

Offline TheHunt

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Sep 2007
  • Posts: 6238
  • Location: Western Washington
Re: ? about ice removal
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2008, 01:04:55 PM »
So our ponds will be frozen for a while now I am guessing.  Any ideas on keeping it off other than breaking it up and raking it out?  I was thinking salt but thats a no no and I do not want to use chemicals, unless there is a non-toxic product out there that anyone knows of.  Thanks!

Is this your property?  If so, there is a tool to submerge into the pond to keep it from freezing over.

Runs off 110 volt single phase.
275 down 2

Offline spur_ride

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 504
  • Location: Chehalis, WA
Re: ? about ice removal
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2008, 01:14:45 PM »
yeah, if they are your ponds i have herd of these deals that sit on top of the water and keep it moving so it dosnt freeze.  :dunno:

 


* Advertisement

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal