homemade ice house

[mageoo95]

hey,

im currently throwing around the idea of making a small cheap home made ice house but,want to keep it light.does anyone know of a good material that keeps heat in,that i could put around the outside of the frame of the house im building? what are all the other portable one or two many ice houses made out of?

Thanks

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

We tried this about 12 years ago, back in high school. I think we made a floor out of plywood and 2x2s, and fold down side walls out of plywood, with a door on the one side. We stapled a blue tarp in between the folding pieces of plywood. I know we fished 4 guys out of there multiple times.

It lasted for about a month before it fell apart. I'd take a look at some of the online classified sites to see what you can find for cheap portables.

[Acemac]

plastic, canvas, and hollow al-u-in-eum poles...

[leech~~]

hey,

im currently throwing around the idea of making a small cheap home made ice house but,want to keep it light.does anyone know of a good material that keeps heat in,that i could put around the outside of the frame of the house im building? what are all the other portable one or two many ice houses made out of?

Thanks

mageoo95, welcome to FM this is the place to find all kinds of great ideas from all the members. My first house was 3 sheets of plywood, 2 2x2's and a big peice of canvas. One sheet ply for floor, two for end walls, 2x2's for cross supports, and the canvas was stapled to the sides of the plywood. You could also just use a blue tarp if the canvas cost to much to get you out fishing. Now get a pen and pad of paper because here comes a lot of ideas from others! Have fun on the site and ice fishing!

[leech~~]

mageoo95, sorry maybe I spoke to soon. I thought you would get some more ideas from the gang on this forum then you seem to have?. Well glad to see you on the forum and let us know how your house turns out with the "few" ideas you've gotten so far.

[ihc1]

Years ago I built a few portables with plywood ends and floor and then put canvas on them. I used 1/4" plywood on the ends with 1"x2" framing and 1/2" for the floor with 1"x4" framing. They work good but being made out of wood they get heavy. I still have mine but now have a 1 man and 2 man flip over that I use all the time. I would do some checking on the cost of materials, then check the classifieds to see if there are some used ones for sale. In the long run it may be cheaper to buy used than spend the money on materials and spend fishing time building. If you would like I could try to post some pictures of mine.

[Tom7227]

I sent to Harris over near the U and they made a rig out of a light blue nylon material for me - zipper door and a window on one side. I made the poles out of conduit and 3/4 copper pipe fittings. Bottom was 1/2 plywood with 2x2 around the inside. I sandwiched the nylon between the plywood and the 2X. It could fit 2 people and was not heavy but a bit awkward to pull in the snow. I was thinking about using some old cross country skis on it to help make it easier to pull.

[Raider4ever]

Carbon-Fiber poles and floor. Tyvek walls with that aluminum space blanket stuff gorilla glued to the inside walls. Don't do cheap when you can do cool.

[motley man]

If you build a old style 3 plywood type, go with canvas for outside as the new blue, brown vinyl tarps don't hold up and the light coming thru is annoying. There are many flip overs for sale on C LIST for a decent price.