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2 truck through ice already
i know 1 was at carson and heard 1 at buck. dont drive on yet guys!!
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12-14-2012, 01:41 PM
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i know 1 was at carson and heard 1 at buck. dont drive on yet guys!!
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not at all surprised.
truck tracks on all the local lakes to me....ice reports are varying from 6" to 18" depending on who you ask.
no thanks...pretty cold for a swim.
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12-14-2012, 02:14 PM
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Which Buck, North or South?
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12-14-2012, 02:21 PM
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Sounds like a few guys are in the running for "mental giant" awards....
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12-14-2012, 02:29 PM
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12-14-2012, 03:49 PM
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well depend we walked on to wabamun then tape measured to 14 inches so we drove on in a little ford explorer i wont drive on without checking the depth of ice first
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12-14-2012, 05:03 PM
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Is it atually 12" or 6" with snow and white ice?
really starting to wonder when guys are saying "12 inches of ice we are good!" are actuallly measuring the ice thickness and not snow plus ice?
I myself dont include the top few inches if its white and shovel off till i hit hard ice before measuring. Some people may say its 12" when actually it only 6-8 inches of real good ice. This year we have had snow early on the ice which will slow down the freezing plus make it patchy with flood water.
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12-14-2012, 06:39 PM
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really starting to wonder when guys are saying "12 inches of ice we are good!" are actuallly measuring the ice thickness and not snow plus ice?
I myself dont include the top few inches if its white and shovel off till i hit hard ice before measuring. Some people may say its 12" when actually it only 6-8 inches of real good ice. This year we have had snow early on the ice which will slow down the freezing plus make it patchy with flood water.
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Many people here report both the approximate amount of white ice on top of an approximate amount of clear ice. I usually do anyways.
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12-14-2012, 07:16 PM
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I'm surprised more trucks don't go throu on Carson, seen some dumb dumb dumb stuff out there, none outdone by the guy in a new dodge duelly, with two sleds on his sled deck, on MAYBE 12 inches of ice. Not sure what the sleds were for hahaha
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12-14-2012, 07:18 PM
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saw one truck over at the island on Jackfish Bay today. still a little early for me to drive on. I was on 13 to 14 inches of good ice today. ice was good fishing sucked
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12-14-2012, 07:39 PM
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really starting to wonder when guys are saying "12 inches of ice we are good!" are actuallly measuring the ice thickness and not snow plus ice?
I myself dont include the top few inches if its white and shovel off till i hit hard ice before measuring. Some people may say its 12" when actually it only 6-8 inches of real good ice. This year we have had snow early on the ice which will slow down the freezing plus make it patchy with flood water.
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Agreed!!! white or rotten ice only holds half the weight of nice clear blue ice.
Rule of thumb. Multiply the thickness of clear ice by itself and then by 100 and thats how many pounds the ice will hold from a 12' radius from the hole drilled.
8" of clear ice= 8X8X100= 6400lbs
if the ice is rotten then that thickness can be added to the total but only at half the thickness. so if you have 8" of clear ice and 6" of white ice, you only have 11" of ice NOT 14"
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12-14-2012, 08:02 PM
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Wabamun had all clear ice
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12-14-2012, 08:48 PM
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saw one truck over at the island on Jackfish Bay today. still a little early for me to drive on. I was on 13 to 14 inches of good ice today. ice was good fishing sucked
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Especially when your drilling a lot of holes with your new auger! Defiantly want some good ice when you have 20 or so holes drilled around your shack! Lol!
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12-14-2012, 09:46 PM
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Im gonna say south. I drove on North buck on December 1st. It had 11.5 inches of the clearest black ice i have ever seen on the east part of the lake. Only 10 inches of not so great ice on the west part.
I kicked up some flood water but stuck close to shore and was fine.
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12-14-2012, 09:58 PM
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Total ****iots!!! Was out at Nakamun today and some guy had his 1 ton 100 yards out and some old guy yelling at them that theres only 8 inches of ice! There was actually a little more than that but still! Come on guys!!! Gotta use your head.
And of course, they see one and the next thing you know theres 6 trucks all within 50 yards of each other!! One guy actually drove across the whole lake to the camp on the north shore! Wow!! Very ballsy but dumb!
Give it a few more weeks with this snow we've had people. Not worth losing a vehicle or your life!!
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12-15-2012, 07:55 AM
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Not by town. At least 2" of white ice on top the few places we fished near the marina.
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12-15-2012, 01:40 PM
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Very bad ice in the wabamun provincial park, walked out 50 feet lots of floodwater and rotten ice
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we were ripping quads all day yesterday at Wab, fishing was slow.
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12-15-2012, 11:05 PM
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Ice is very strange, I have drove trucks on 3 inches (half ton) Also drove over 5'' with 1 ton diesel, Not saying i am smart, I knew it was thin but not that thin, If the weather stays the same the ice seams stronger, If a cold snap hits watch out, Its the V cracks that get you every time, I trust 10 inches of black ice for a truck, I have seen 3 trucks parked side by side on 5 inches, I was out there with my rhino, Later that day 1 of those trucks went down, There are known bad spots but people still drive there and put trucks in, Lac des isles i have seen over a dozen trucks over the years break through in a 100 meter spot, If you dont have atleast 10 of good black ice your chances are at the worst, I have seen over 8 trucks go down on primrose lake alone just after christmas, Usually 1 a year.
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12-15-2012, 11:17 PM
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Well were we where last weekend it was all clear
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I went to wizard today....I didn't drive on but some people did. I was across the lake...literally (its narrow) but the cracking was loud and the holes I had drilled the water was moving up and down in from the truck driving on the other side...IMHO, not quite time to drive a truck on yet.
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I drove on today, but I followed someone bigger. 14 inches of good clear ice. thinnest Ive ever driven on, I had the door open and my cat like reflexes ready to leap free, but it was no issues at all. going to do it again soon as I wake up in the morning.
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12-16-2012, 01:15 AM
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Saw some locals driving on 9". I walked over to check. It was beautiful solid ice. Otherwise!!!
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12-16-2012, 01:22 AM
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Parked on burnstick this morning 10"+ in my test hole. Found 14" in a few spots . One brave fella drove his diesel out a few hundred yards . Yikes . Mite drive a little way onto gull tomorrow. If reports are favorable.
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I had the door open and my cat like reflexes ready to leap free, .
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Ha,I think we all have done this at some point.
I don't like the thought of it any more now that I'm 40 with 2 kids than I did at 20-wild and free.
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I still can't drive on cold lake. Wouldn't matter if there was 4' of ice, it freaks tfo of me. 
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12-16-2012, 04:43 AM
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if there is not two feet of ice your a dummy!insurance does not cover truck through ice
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12-16-2012, 07:23 AM
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FYI guys are driving out on French Bay as of yesterday...HOWEVER...buddy was out and said there is only 8" of good ice. On a big lake like that with the way the ice moves I would opt to still quad/walk. IMHO playing with fire there...
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You need better insurance. Mine covers me.
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I drove on today, but I followed someone bigger. 14 inches of good clear ice. thinnest Ive ever driven on, I had the door open and my cat like reflexes ready to leap free, but it was no issues at all. going to do it again soon as I wake up in the morning.
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No problem Wayne...I had your back 
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