Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

In Maine you have 30 days to remove any vehicle that goes through the ice. Seems like it happens every year

 

2f here this morning and yeah, it's snowing once again.

All these ice stories reminds me of one local (back in the 60's) who, for reasons known only to him, had to be the first one across the ice. This old Finn was wired with ski doo in his dna! He would actually wear an truck inner tube around his waist and head out to cross the bay at first ice!

Good old "Armas"!

 

10 here. Beech and another piece of Cherry in the Wood Gun.

 

How is Beech for burning ? I never had any.

 

12F here. 3 big olé Pine splits.

 

Definitely, ice is very unpredictable. On a river ice is even less predictable. The situation I was describing was very porous, not clear ice. I honestly think at that particular spot it was only an inch or 2 max thickness, and since it wasn't clear solid ice, it was the weakest ice you can find.

 

It's fantastic. More BTU's than oak or sugar maple. It smells awesome when burning, like a roasted vanilla kind of smell.

 

It’s my favorite other than apple. Everything Horkn said plus it dries in 18 months or so.

 

When I got up it 15* and it is up to 20. Have gotten a little bit of snow. I overcast today.

 

I forgot to mention that the overnight low dipped to -4f. I finally got one of those indoor/outdoor thermometers for here. Bought it at Menards and saved "big money"!


Anyway, up to 6" now of that new stuff. Started about 5:00 this morning.

 

Man that's some dream wood right there.I have no idea where I can get my hands on some of that.However your quote will stick with me for a very long time.

 

You are right! It is a serious matter this ice business.

One year we were out on the lake the day a truck broke through weak ice over a known spring hole. There were white out conditions on the lake and I don't think you could hardly see your hand in front of your face for all the wind whipped snow. His buddy driving back to shore a bit later drove his truck right into the same hole...two nice trucks ended up one on top of the other in 20' of water. Thank God they made it out. The ice was bad that year all over due to warmer than normal weather. I didn't drive my truck out that winter even though many places had well over 14" of ice. Typically our ice is well over 24" by the middle of February.

 

Another story for you Backwoods Savage since we are on the topic:

I learned to ice fish Lake Superior for lake trout and whitefish on the the large bays along the border, up to and including Thunder Bay in Ontario, from some older guys who had been doing it for decades, and still are.

The first time I went we took snowmobiles out a few miles over 120' of water on ice so clear, it looked like the water itself. To top it off there were spots where the ice had broken up and froze back together so that you could be fishing on an ice cake that was 10" thick, and traveling over that newer black clear ice between the cakes that was only 3-4" thick. Sometimes there were long leads of open water between the cakes so that you could walk along "trolling" while jigging the bottom for trout. The fishing is spectacular, but not something to take lightly, or done alone.

One day we were having fantastic fishing on 12" of ice that went out for miles on Pigeon Bay in Grand Portage, about as far as you could see. Overnight a NE wind came up, followed by a strong cold front and NW wind. The next morning a buddy and I went by snowmobile down the river to the lake to check things, and found that every bit of ice had broken up, and was nowhere in sight, just a wind whipped vast expanse of angry water clear out to Isle Royal and beyond.

 

You got that right.

 

About a week back on the storm thread you posted that a ways down the road the temps would get into the 50's/60's and rain and I said no way, you must be watching Boston weather. You replied your APP said it was was coming. It did, so keep that APP it works for you. And I was wrong and you were right.

 

In NH you have 24 hours to get it out, truck , car, sled, whatever. There are folks that have abusiness doing just that, the thing is lots of us drive across the lakes. In Wolfeboro they set up a village on the lake and elect a mayor of that village. On Alton Bay we have an airstrip where planes land on the ice. To my knowledge it is the only FAA recognized air strip on the ice in the lower 48. You tube it.

 

Oh, by the way it's 17* here and Hard Maple is called upon for the duty tonight.