Not if you've got a Pull-on. Don't forget to keep your left hand fingers on the air cleaner cover !Think cutting ice fishing holes with the chainsaw will cause damage to the saw? water in the sprocket bad?
Not if you've got a Pull-on. Don't forget to keep your left hand fingers on the air cleaner cover !
Oh, and measure your shovel 1st. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nawM3abYLyk
Not if you've got a Pull-on. Don't forget to keep your left hand fingers on the air cleaner cover !
Oh, and measure your shovel 1st. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nawM3abYLyk
I would never be on that ice. I scares the **** out of me anyway let along soft crappy stuff like that. It look more like slush I always thought the idea was to put a inward angle on the cut and push the block down and under the ice not freeze your fingers getting it out. I use to have to check ice thickness for the USCEC and it still spooked me when it was 14". I guess I am a pansy.
Bill
My uncle runs a Stihl 460 with a 36" bar in the ice when making holes for sturgeon spearing. The holes are usually around 20"x30" I think. I may be a little off on the size and I believe there are regulations, but I know they are big holes. The water they are cutting them in is less than 10ft and they wait for hours for a sturgeon to swim past the hole and then spear it and pull it up. Some fish can be in excess of 100lbs. Also in Northern WI (can't remember where off hand) They cut large blocks out of a lake to build an ice castle. They have been doing that for years and I believe they use a chainsaw. BTW you can walk on 2", drive an atv or snowmobile on 6", and a car or truck on 10". Although I wouldn't recommend it because obviously it doesn't all freeze evenly. One spot could be 10" the next could be 6" or 8". At 14" I would not be worried about a small vehicle on the ice and many I know wouldn't worry about their trucks. Ice has an amazingly sturdy composition if formed under the right conditions, but that is not always the case! Obviously better safe than sorry and I don't blame those that are leary about it. I have spent a lot of time on the ice in my life. You just need to understand your limitations and what to look for. There looked like a little slush in the vid, but with ice under snow like that it is common.
just a good coating of wd40 afterwards when its home leave it somewhere to dry well, and bio bar oils so as not to pollute the water!
Never done it but thinking about it but hate to get bar lube in the lake.
Yup.......Just tie a rope too the handle and dont use bar oil........Cut the hole and slide chunk thats cut under the ice and push it so it takes off sliding under ice.......Make sure you clean the saw good after your done so it doesnt rust or freeze ........
Are you still alive. Have not heard from you ????????????????????? I was afraid you drank yourself so full of Jack you went to the other side:msp_confused:
i work on river conservation and regularly have the guidebars in the water, not had any bother at all
just a good coating of wd40 afterwards when its home leave it somewhere to dry well, and bio bar oils so as not to pollute the water!
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