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Nice freak warm spell. Ice broke up, ice jammed 100 yds down my channel. Overflow flooded my parking spot. My dumbasz left the drain plug out. Well, at least it ain't built of junk polyester resin or cedar strip:

Saw, cut, saw, cut, saw, cut, saw, cut die:

Can tell a lot about a person how they take care of their stuff.

Dam,,,,, I understand why you left the plug out, I do the same thing, but mine is sitting on some rail-road tie timbers, with a slope to the back, so all the rain, melting snow can run-out, by your photo, looks like you've got the slope, just forgot the dunnage...... Dam again.....
And by the way, I've still got that little-Husky saw I bought from you.... Runs like a champ.....
Lj

Don’t look like fun, Mainer. Hope ya get it take care of.

Condolences.
The only bright side to that is practice for
the ice carving competition in Fairbanks.
At least you will be able to do the repairs
if needed, since you built it.
Now, about that ice sculpture:
Freighter canoe underway loaded with 70" moose and hunter, life-size, with river to show freeboard, and efficiency, hardly a rooster tail.

Reminds me of how I felt when a storm took the roof off of Wife's sunroom and it had to be rebuilt.

Lj, geeze that was almost a decade ago I sold that saw to u. Glad she's running strong. Time passes way too fast man. Not many husqs or stihls round here anymore. Mostly brick sht-house echos. I do have one heated carb j-red 2172 (rebadged husq 372) left.

Iron,
Lesson learned I suppose. At least the weather has been amazing. Warm for weeks.

Crank,
Hope the roof repair went OK.

Anyone who doesn't know something similar firsthand either hasn't lived up here long, or they only live close to Alaska, ie. trailer their stuff to a drop point.

Looks like a lot of work man. Hope you get her out and cleared off.

Well, at least you aren't using a heat gun or hair dryer to clear that ice.....

Progress Report?

I'd of let it self heal if the ice wouldn't take it with it when it decides to leave...

Jack it up and build a fire under it! 😳

Got the entire perimeter of boat cut out and center of boat cleared of ice. But the adhesion of the bottom of boat to the ice is unbreakable.

I yanked on center seat with snowmachine, till it popped the seat hanger off. No biggie, just a mechanical bond.

I kicked the hull and leveraged with alder pole, won't break free.

Yanked the boat left and right from the bow eye with snowmachine. Just about pulled out the bow eye!

Gonna have to tarp it, and fire up a woodstove inside of it. That should soften the adhesion when I turn that boat into a sauna.

I admire your taste in snow machine....bomb-proof! I just dug mine out from the 2 feet of snow we had a month or so ago - been using ACs instead...

Brother I so wish I could be there with an compressor and a sinking hammer and needle scaler. I'd have that out in a snap.

Klik,

Hope u weren't spoiled with nice teacher housing:

$500 a month airbnb. Come spring break up, it will transform into an Uber ride.

Looks perfect,, we have to cook and thaw machines and boats here on occasion too !!

Its no fun. Goes with the life though. As Klik and others have noted. If you haven't had some of these things happen, you haven't done it very long.

Kind of like not ever loosing a deer or not ever missing your mark. You haven't done it much if you haven't.

Good thing... 3 weeks or so of summer is on the way.

I got a cheap river boat that had been frozen into the Yuki R. back in the 90s. Waited till april to get it out. Wasn't as bad as what you are going thru!!

Was thinking ice melt or salt between ice and bottom of hull might work? But better have a separate salt lick for the moose.


It aint easy dealing with winter ice issues even in suburbia let alone the bush, Michael will win!

I might be able to send a few fat girls to heat things up!