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Drive Home
« on: March 18, 2018, 10:53:05 pm »

Captured today on the frozen Lake Simcoe, about an hour north of Toronto.
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2018, 05:12:20 am »

Is it a temporary "road" or just a fisherman going home from his ice hole?
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2018, 06:06:58 am »

It wasn't even an "ice road", just a frozen lake with about 15-30cm of snow on top of the ice.
Most fishermen walked onto the lake pulling behind them small tobogans with all fishing supplies and food, but this guy didn't feel like walking.
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2018, 06:42:54 am »

It wasn't even an "ice road", just a frozen lake with about 15-30cm of snow on top of the ice.
Most fishermen walked onto the lake pulling behind them small tobogans with all fishing supplies and food, but this guy didn't feel like walking.

Thanks for the info, some choose the easiest way!  :D
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2018, 09:38:25 am »

I think his GPS just quit while he was trying to head for the superhighway.
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2018, 05:03:56 am »

I think his GPS just quit while he was trying to head for the superhighway.

GPS was rubbish, on that ice, trees can't block the signal  ;)
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2018, 06:10:45 am »

GPS or a compass is not a bad idea. That lake is very large and the visibility can change very quickly just from the wind and the surface snow. A long rope and a survival kit might help, too.

I spoke with the driver who told me that ice was about 11" (almost 30cm) thick. Maybe in the spot where he drilled the fishing hole.
8" would be the minimum ice thickness to hold a car, 4-5" (12-15cm) should be OK for walking or even for a snowmobile.  You drive slowly with open windows and have a change of cloth and survival kit ready in a plastic bag.     

The lake swallows every year some cars, trucks and ATV's. Here are two short videos showing two trucks and a SUV which went through the ice on that lake earlier this year.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1315462
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1332963
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2018, 01:15:21 pm »

Thanks for the video… Considering the price of car retrieval operations, fishing must be an expensive activity!
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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2018, 04:39:27 pm »

When I was a kid my dad & I often went ice fishing on Lake Eire. When the ice was really thick there'd be flat-bed trucks regularly ferrying fisher-folk way out from & back to the shore, typically at least half a mile each way.

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Re: Drive Home
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2018, 02:40:56 am »

Thanks for the video… Considering the price of car retrieval operations, fishing must be an expensive activity!

I was wondering myself about the truck retrieval methods from the ice, if they pull it out by another truck or let it sink to the bottom and raise it up in the spring by a barge.

Here is a video showing how to pull out a car from a lake in Russian style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_oKHARhXw
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