Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations How many inches do you have?

Looks like you should be able to break that with the temps predicted and 11 more days right?

I predict Bremer pond ice record will be broken next Sunday.

I predict much sooner than that.

It's probably been broken while he was watching the lefties.

Scott, thanks for your concern for my fish and your indifference to my suffering. My son turned on the shallow diffuser while waiting for the neighbor and his tractor. Called me yesterday around noon and had just turned it off. A hole opened about 12'X25' and as you previously stated that should refreeze clear. Cecil, I doubt Scott is the only one punkin me for layin around in the sun while they shovel slush. It was 76 yesterday and today. JaKoB, you are close except it's not misery I have all wrapped up, I believe it's called folly. See ya all when it warms up.

Bob, that means you should be coming back in May, right? Just make sure you don't bring any Tornados with you.

I've got a good 25" of ice, and my diffuser hole is frozen right over. W have had really cold weather for 3 weeks now and I cant keep the hole from staying open at all right now...

I'm hoping this cold snap ends soon.

Is anyone using those floating de-icers at all? are they worth the $100? or would they even be able to keep up with multiple days of -20 weather?

I won't be checking it until Saturday so the that will be the day of record and recording.

The forecast lows for the next 4 days are -10F or below and daily averages of -4.666666666F pretty much guarantee a new record.

People are paying $750-$1000 to fill their propane tanks (near $4.00 per gallon) and filling them a lot this winter. I am very happy to have geothermal climate control!!

In case you need more road salt, they are making more here in Bonaire, N.A.

Salt piles coming off the conveyor belt.
Reddish ponds are condenser ponds where salt is concentrating. When the water dries out, they harvgest the salt. Ocean water is pumped into evaporation ponds, then when it concentrates some gets pumped into condenser ponds and is the reddish color, then finally dries to harvest.

Use a harvester that is pulled behind a dozer that picks up and conveys salt into waiting center dump trucks. Front loader and grader cleans up scraps and loads. Grader drags bottom down smooth before pumping evaporator pond water back into the condenser pond to strat the process of drying all over. Desert climate here. Always wind.

Same conveyor system loads the salt onto ships for north bound areas that get way too much snow. No snow here.

fantastic diving

For us American Rock Salt is just down the road from us. Huge natural salt deposits right under most of Western NY, and they are cranking out salt production this year! If you ever pass through NY, the mine is visible from RT390 near Geneseo, NY. From what I understand, the tunnels down underground are huge.

https://www.americanrocksalt.com/

But back on-topic. Weather models for early next week are not pretty. Getting uglier with each run for us... into the cold, and a possible long-term major series of snowstorms. I am sweating it out as I am down to a few nubbins of wood.

Hopefully you have back up heating system!

Yeah, propane. Probably a better way to say it is pro-pain in the wallet. I cannot even sleep well when the furnace is running as I can envision my hard-earned money going up in fumes.

Drilled 5 spots on my lunch hour with a 16" boring bit and never broke through anywhere in the middle of the pond...

Have had my shallow water diffuser running for 48 hours..It opened up a 6 by maybe 8 foot hole around the dock but seems to have stopped there...Shut it back done again.. Now to wait and see what this next storm is going to do..

Didn't the thaw last week raise and break up your ice? My pond went up a couple of feet. So the old thick ice is still in the middle (broken up a bit) but around the edge for a ways out it is new ice and not that thick. Haven't check it yet, waiting for this weekend and may ice fish.

I bought a house with a pond that everyone here warns people about...LOL A ground water pond with very little natural drainage..

So no the pond ice did NOT break up...Most the snow areas melted and added to the already thick ice that was below...The ice has tightened back up and is slicker than snot in the smooth areas.. The area I was keeping clean is still pretty clear, but kinda of messed up because I just pushed the slush in piles...

Thinking of letting the boys go ice skating tonight when we get home if they want to... Should be plenty of area for them to have a little fun...

OK, I am going out a limb; 30 inches of ice within the next 2 weeks.

Does anyone know how many inches Devils Lake, ND has now? I couldn't find a recent update on Ice Shanty.com other than a 6 inch extension is not enough.

I fished the lake the first week of March one year and there was four feet of ice. It was not an unusually cold year if I remember right.

I think that limb prediction could hold some weight!

End of Feb. going into March, usually put's the melt on things around here. Not this year!

Last week with the bit of warming and sun, the birds were out, but they got the heck outta here!

If this stuff melts quick, there will be issues.

I had good friends that had a house on Old Woman's Bend on the Muskegon River. This was back in the mid 80's. It was a comfortable dream house, with everything they wanted.

Well, Spring time melt ensued a flood that all you could see from high ground was the chimney sticking out of the water a bit. House and pole barn were destroyed and gone, with all their belongings, and only a couple slabs of concrete were left. Clean slate at that point, to start over. They never did! Perfect Isn't so perfect, and it was really nice

The house trailers that got ripped out in this area, they found them a couple miles down river clogging stuff up.

High ground is good around here on one of the larger rivers.

Liquidsquid, I feel your (pro)Pain!



On both accounts

Here's the before and after, from 11-1-13



And our 7-day forecast doesn't help

13 and dropping outside, low 80's inside.

Thank you, Esshup!

Looks very familiar, including the tubs!

Awesome pic that speaks a thousand words!

I really wish my house was about 1/2 the square footage. We bought it for the land, not the house. PIA to heat this thing, and just too much space for storing useless crap.

With that quickly off my chest, we moved to the new supplier (yay!) and a ~60% full 500gal tank: $385. In part due to a discount for signing on, the other for locking in at $1.47 when I signed on! Huzzah!

I would have been better off with a conventional built well insulated home vs. a log home and without a cathedral ceiling. Even though I have a geothermal system my electric bill was over $500.00 last month.

We've gone through something like 150% more wood this year than a normal winter and the propane furnace has also been working overtime. No end in sight yet. High today is 14 with wind chills around 12 below zero.

I've just about had enough of winter.

This winter just keeps coming. The next big storm is supposed to hit Illinois this weekend. Right now they are saying "significant" snowfall, but who knows what that means. I have read somewhere between 6"-12". I am so happy that I bought a snow blower last year.