*Reminder*

[pulleye16]

Just another reminder.

Run that gas auger!

Top off those flasher batteries!

And if you're really bored, open up that fishhouse and put down those moth balls you forgot to keep the mice from chewing wholes in it!

[RebelSS]

Beat ya!!!! Did both last week.....shack is stored inside.

[Ed Carlson]

Also it's a good time to replace or send in your spare ice auger blades to be sharpened. Have a fresh set on hand and a sharp set on the auger ready to burn ice.

Look over the auger, fire it up, inspect it for frayed pull ropes or linkage issues that will haunt you latter on.

If you store your ice electronics in a garage or basement, be sure it is also mouse proof, as they can find ducer cords tasty from time to time.

I just set up my shacks and looked them over and made sure all was clean, and tossed in a few new fresh Bounce sheets to deter any new residents from moving in.

Don't forget the your POP UP portables either, as they are just as susceptible to critter invasions as a sled type portable is.

Make darn sure there is no food, bait, Gulp, beer or pop cans, or anything potentially tasty to mice in your portables..as that is all it takes for them to want to move in.

[rugbymn]

I suggest a monthly auger test just like they do with the tornado sirens. We could do it the first Thursday of every month at 5:00pm.

If we get enough guys to do it, we would hear a 2-stroke chorus ringing through the neighborhoods like the call of the chickadee in spring. It would be beautiful.

[Ed Carlson]

LOL! That would be funny.

Set a date and a time and do it nation wide.

People would really wonder what the heck was up.

[Boar]

Tornado sirens arnt funny i have one in my back yar 75 yrd from my door an the city actually thinks it make a good curfew alarm from sunday-thursday 10:oo an frian sat at 11:00 wwwwwwwhhhhhhhhoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo....... real nice. Had a neighbor actull drill holes for planting trees with his trickmaster. 50 of em" wanted to so bad grab a ice rod an hole hop around his yard

[Rippinlip]

Both shacks set-up and auger was a runnin!

on a 98 degree day last week!

[Hardyboy]

Hopefully he used a dirt bit instead of his ice bit on the power head.

Tornado sirens arnt funny i have one in my back yar 75 yrd from my door an the city actually thinks it make a good curfew alarm from sunday-thursday 10:oo an frian sat at 11:00 wwwwwwwhhhhhhhhoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo....... real nice. Had a neighbor actull drill holes for planting trees with his trickmaster. 50 of em" wanted to so bad grab a ice rod an hole hop around his yard

[Ed Carlson]

I suggest a monthly auger test just like they do with the tornado sirens. We could do it the first Thursday of every month at 5:00pm.

If we get enough guys to do it, we would hear a 2-stroke chorus ringing through the neighborhoods like the call of the chickadee in spring. It would be beautiful.

I propose we synchronize this "Power Ice Auger Summer Salute" for....lets say.....the first Saturday in July...07/03/2011....at official Sundown.

That way all the ice augers running at once can cackle majestically in the twighlight, morning the lack there of ice to cut. For all to hear there power and beauty. Anyway that a date about mid summer, more or less.

So...if we use Minneapolis MN as the official sunset point for that "Power Ice Ice Auger Summer Salute Date", it would be at 21:03 hours sharp in 2011.

Run for 1 full minute and then off to silance.