Some guys came to Caesar Pond to create their second ice disk (also called an ice carousel.) Apparently, they made one last year but we didn't know they were out there. This was cool. It was about 60 feet in diameter. The chainsawing began yesterday after the guys put a stake in the the ice and ran rope out from it in all directions to make a circle. Then, they had to use axes to chop out the channel. By the way, the ice is about 10" thick. The channel widened as the disk turned and would eventually get about a foot wide.
Today: To get it to spin, they first tried using a boat engine, but that didn't work, so they hooked up a heavy tracked ATV to do the initial pulling of disk. They had to remove chunks of ice from the water circle to allow the disk to turn. Cool! Drew got to ride the disk which stayed moving once it got it's initial motion. I wish we'd thought to bring over the selfie-stick because at least then we would have had something of an overhead view. We'll try to remember to do that next year if we happen to find out when they are doing it again.
Feb. 22, 2021, Addendum:
7 comments:
Cool. But why? Seems like a lot of work for a spinning piece of ice.
Why not?! Just another fun way to play on the ice.
I like the ingenuity of Mainers to get the disk spinning!
Sounds like fun!
Pretty cool. That would never happen here. Liked your video of it spinning.
Great pictures and description of what was going on! (as usual). Very clever and ingenious. Looks like ice fishing was going on out there, too. Next year we ought to get you a drone for the overhead pictures! Thank you for sharing and alerting us to this.
Interesting way to play in the ice. Maybe people will drop a jigging lure in the crack and catch some dizzy fish...
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