bringing in the ice harvest

[jsd245]

This is awesome Wally- I’m amazed you had enough ice to cut this winter. In CT We had no ice. 

[wallytoo]

6 minutes ago, jsd245 said:

This is awesome Wally- I’m amazed you had enough ice to cut this winter. In CT We had no ice. 

 

yeah, a few weeks ago, there was about 5" during a fishing derby.  on sunday, it was about 14 or 15" thick.  good enough to make ice blocks!

[jsd245]

3 minutes ago, wallytoo said:

 

yeah, a few weeks ago, there was about 5" during a fishing derby.  on sunday, it was about 14 or 15" thick.  good enough to make ice blocks!

 

[jsd245]

That cold snap did it. It was 8 below iN CT. Can’t imagine what it was up there. Did you every get any use out of those wheels you picked up? 
 

 

[wallytoo]

49 minutes ago, jsd245 said:

That cold snap did it. It was 8 below iN CT. Can’t imagine what it was up there. Did you every get any use out of those wheels you picked up? 
 

 

 

it was -20*F here for the one night.

 

i haven't needed the wheels yet, but it is nice to have some ready to go.  while some are rough, at least 4 are better than/equal to what i'm running now.

 

any progress on your truck?

[jsd245]

15 hours ago, wallytoo said:

 

it was -20*F here for the one night.

 

i haven't needed the wheels yet, but it is nice to have some ready to go.  while some are rough, at least 4 are better than/equal to what i'm running now.

 

any progress on your truck?

Not much progress on the one you saw- but something new is coming-- you'll see pictures soon. 

[wallytoo]

the only NH tv station has a program, NH Chronicle, that did a piece on the ice day this year.  the link is below - it's about 5 minutes long.

 

fwiw, my truck makes a very brief - 2 seconds - appearance at the 4:21 mark.  and, i'm in that same shot, as well as in the background of the interview just after that..

 

NH Chronicle ice harvest

Edited March 2, 2023 by wallytoo

[jsd245]

Love it Wally. Now that I have a running truck we should do some kind of Northeast get together. 

[wallytoo]

after not having ice harvest day in 2024, we were back at it today.  good clear 18" ice, blocks were 300 to 325 lbs each.  pretty mild day, high 20s (after about 8" of snow overnight).  filled the ice house, too, so a successful day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 blocks on this load.  ended up getting a second load of 20 blocks to fill the ice house.  (the first load was roughly 8,125 lbs of cargo...)