Frozen Down

[GoneFish'n71]

i got lucky with my wheelhouse, the last time I went out (seems like forever now) I was going to move it, but I couldn't do it that night so I jacked up the house and just had it on the wheels ready to go. got out there and the entire lake was flooded except for the area around my house since I shoveled off a large area around it.

I haven't been out there with the pickup in the last two weeks because it's still flooded but went out with the snowmobile to check on it.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get out there with the pickup? I've made it about 2/3 of the way across the lake, but only in other people trails. I've been thinking of getting a large pole and a winch to pull me out when I get stuck and I can at least blaze a trail to my house. When I drove out on tuesday I was still noticing that I would break through the flooded layer walking.

Do i have to just drive, get stuck, get out and keep going in order to get my way out there?

Get a pair of v bar tire chains for your truck and you can go through just about anything. Get two pair and put them on all four tires, and the only way you will stop is if you get hung up, but with four chains you can usually still back out. Just take it nice and easy and dont ram into the deep stuff (that is how you get hung up), just grind away until you stop, the back up and grind away some more. You will get there eventually. It is totally amazing how well cains work on trucks.

[Sunnie]

Makes a guy wonder what the earlier slush layer will do when a thaw begins and with the recent snows we may all be in for a treat.

[trophyhunt28]

heat the house up as hot as you can,open holes use fans for a couple of hours.while the house is heating up, run chainsaw along outsides of skids,making four passes by each skid,chisel those out and using a 4x4 and a sledge hammer,go along each skid.then set a jack under two corners,put pressure on the house and go down each skid with sledge again.then go inside house when it has heated up and use sledge along floor joists on jacked up end two or three times,then jack corners up a little more,go inside sledge somemore.repeat other end.