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My windmill diffuser is a membrane and my electric looks like a shower head shoved in a 5 gallon bucket.. The windmill when it is spinning moves a lot more water than the electric powered...Hoping to upgrade in the spring to 2 vertex diffuser and a new pump..
Like said, they are calling for way below freezing temp for the next couple of days so hopefully I can get this thing opened up a little..
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Bill is not only a weenie but an old weenie. My hands can't take the cold temps like they used to. A couple fingers get numb quickly and were probably frost bit in the early days of ice fishing. No more ice fishing without a shanty anymore for this weenie. If you come ice fishing with me CB1 you can sit outside the shanty in the wind with the hole freezing closed. When you coming over and walking on water? Good one Bill! That's one of the best come backs I've in a long time! Cody note - Ya, I might be a weenie but I have enough old man weenie sense to use a ice shanty when I ice fish.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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OutdoorL - you should see a noticeable difference in the boil configuration and size when you upgrade to the vertex diffusers. One very good way to see the size influence of the boil spread is to examine the boil shape during a light rain. This shows one the amount of spread of the boil currents. Evidently this is due to the difference in water temperature and surface tension due to the boil water being cooler than the surrounding surface water.
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Just went home on my lunch to play again...The wind mill has still not opened up any water even with a good wind for the last 16 hours...The electric powered had only thinned the ice enough for me to break a 3 foot opening...
I think the biggest problem is the water level has dropped enough that it is not reaching the top of the ice...The other in the center that I have been keeping clear was popping and cracking like no tomorrow when I was clearing it also...Kind of an eerie feeling..
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Cody note - Ya, I might be a weenie but I have enough old man weenie sense to use a ice shanty when I ice fish.
The truth be known me too! I have one of those 2 man Genz popups.
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Now after 36 hrs of aeration with an open water area 66ft dia, I checked water temps and DO at two locations, one about 20ft from open water and at the other end of the pond at 11 ft deep about 100ft away from the open hole. Diffuser is sitting in about 11-12ft of water. Water temp has dropped from 39F to 36F to 36.3 from near surface to bottom at both locations. Evidently the water currents are spreading a long distance from the diffuser. This may be due to cold water temperatures or some other physical feature that contributes to mixing?? Dissolved oxygen in water at both locations has risen to 3.2 to 4.5ppm from lows of around 2ppm at 5-6ft to bottom prior to aerating.
At about 20 ft from the open water hole I had 7" of ice thickness.
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List of must haves for the future...
New aeration
DO meter
GoPro or water proof camera
Patience
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