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Boji Ice Recovery of Vehicle and Wheelhouse
This is very interesting and the skill sets needed to accomplish
this safely is something. Bob Kirschbaum of Bob's Repair and Tow,
Spirit Lake, IA has good information.
(Accidents happen and glad no one was hurt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgzWFDfj0nQ
This is very interesting and the skill sets needed to accomplish
this safely is something. Bob Kirschbaum of Bob's Repair and Tow,
Spirit Lake, IA has good information.
(Accidents happen and glad no one was hurt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgzWFDfj0nQ
http://youtu.be/c0_oKHARhXw
A lot depends on the thickness of the ice, how far out you are from shore, and depth of the water in which the vehicle went down.
Around here you are fined for each day a vehicle is down. The EPA does not want the fluids leaking into the body of water. If the ice is thin the local recovery guys might not touch it until the ice is safe to work on. That equates to big bucks for each day.
Then most insurance companies will not cover you for a vehicle through the ice. I have heard of some guys taking brand new vehicles on early ice and going through.
So they are on the hook for payments on a new vehicle that is totaled, fines for each day it is down until the ice firms up, costs of the recovery itself, whatever fines or tickets they receive for damages to the ecosystem and EPA problems, plus the replacement cost for something to drive even though they are stuck paying for the new one still.
No... I'll stick to my flowing river and my little boat. When the water gets too hard to fish in, it's time for hunting and trapping anyway.
Not a lot of risk if you take precautions. Right now the ice around here is 3 feet or more thick. Auger extensions are hard to come by. They fly out of the shops when they get them in.
I do not fish early or late ice. i am neither the first guy fishing in the season nor the last guy.
If you follow the crowd you are generally safer.
You need to know the body of water. You might have thick ice in one spot and thin ice where there is a spring or current. You need to know the ice and the lake. Up to lake of the woods there is a lot of current and unsafe spots. You stay on the roads and trails and stay off the middle of the channels.
Pressure ridges can form where the ice cracks when the ice is growing and two sheets of ice are forced into each other. One goes under the other forcing one up or opening up a crack. They can be hard to see when everything is white. You need to go slow and follow the roads and trails. Hit a pressure ridge at speed and it can ruin your day.