I had a situation last weekend. I fished all day Saturday pulling my portable from place to place behind a snowmobile with the auger strapped on top. There was alot of fresh snow and the auger was covered with it each time I stopped. I was able to cut holes all day with no problem. Overnight, I brought the auger in to let it thaw. By morning, it was only partially thawed out. The room was not warm enough. I was going to fish another lake (by truck) and when I got to my spot and got the auger ready to drill, I couldn't pull the start cord-it was frozen I figured since the partially unthawed powerhead parts re-froze on the way to the lake. I cranked up the heat in the truck to full blast and set the powerhead end of the auger on the floor in the passenger side floor and covered it with a jacket. In ten minutes or so, I was able to start the thing once the recoil starter was free. Then the throttle was inop. So I put the auger back in the truck for another ten minutes and thawed that. Then all was ok.....Long story short-if these things get full of ice and snow-get them inside where it's warm enough to completely thaw and dry them overnight. I think alot of these recoils break because they're frozen and then get forced out of disgust and break. The part that engages the flywheel is plastic and won't take much force to break. My auger is a Lazer Mag but I think this would be true with any machine.....T
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I had a situation last weekend. I fished all day Saturday pulling my portable from place to place behind a snowmobile with the auger strapped on top. There was alot of fresh snow and the auger was covered with it each time I stopped. I was able to cut holes all day with no problem. Overnight, I brought the auger in to let it thaw. By morning, it was only partially thawed out. The room was not warm enough. I was going to fish another lake (by truck) and when I got to my spot and got the auger ready to drill, I couldn't pull the start cord-it was frozen I figured since the partially unthawed powerhead parts re-froze on the way to the lake. I cranked up the heat in the truck to full blast and set the powerhead end of the auger on the floor in the passenger side floor and covered it with a jacket. In ten minutes or so, I was able to start the thing once the recoil starter was free. Then the throttle was inop. So I put the auger back in the truck for another ten minutes and thawed that. Then all was ok.....Long story short-if these things get full of ice and snow-get them inside where it's warm enough to completely thaw and dry them overnight. I think alot of these recoils break because they're frozen and then get forced out of disgust and break. The part that engages the flywheel is plastic and won't take much force to break. My auger is a Lazer Mag but I think this would be true with any machine.....T
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