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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: cliffchen on Dec 04, 2019, 12:07 PM
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Hi all,
I was just wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to keep your skirt from getting damaged and unfrozen from the ice?
Thanks!
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Wear taller heels ;D
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Hi all,
I was just wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to keep your skirt from getting damaged and unfrozen from the ice?
Thanks!
I use this and chop the ice beyond the ice that forms over the skirt itself.
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Wear taller heels ;D
;D ;D That is another good way.
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Wear a shorter skirt, or just wear pants!!! :o
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Wear taller heels ;D
good one tater140
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Try not to place on wet ice or slush ...preventive ..tuff to do at times ..I have chipped some out from time to time..not fun especially on days you need to be hunkered down and want to leave or move .
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@tater140 and OldSailor: Please pick up your applications for Ice Fishing Hotline Customer Service Representative before you go home ;)2
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Drill a hole close and let the water splash on the skirt. Should make it so you can yank it off.
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Drywall spatula? Heat up a pot of water on your dandy heater mod. Maybe spray some silicon on the flaps? I think I move too often so it has never happened to me.
Keep it safe! JDL
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Drill a hole close and let the water splash on the skirt. Should make it so you can yank it off.
May have to try that ...has this worked for you in the past ?
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Would it help to treat the skirt with a spray-on waterproofing solution? They also make something called Never Wet or something like that. It's supposed to be highly hydrophobic, like Rain-x for you clothes.
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Camp Dry. ;)
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May have to try that ...has this worked for you in the past ?
Yes, absolutely works. I've done it many times with my Bigfoot hub if it froze to the ice. If it's brutal cold make sure you work quick but flood the area with water and it will work.
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Yes, absolutely works. I've done it many times with my Bigfoot hub if it froze to the ice. If it's brutal cold make sure you work quick but flood the area with water and it will work.
Thanks for the input ..I learned something today . Will defiantly try that if I ever fall into that situation again.
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Waterproof it with silicone spray, it will still freeze a bit but ice and water won't stick.
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Rubber mallet
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Yes, absolutely works. I've done it many times with my Bigfoot hub if it froze to the ice. If it's brutal cold make sure you work quick but flood the area with water and it will work.
This. It does work. Also works if you use the garage floor pieces inside the shanty...
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Yes, absolutely works. I've done it many times with my Bigfoot hub if it froze to the ice. If it's brutal cold make sure you work quick but flood the area with water and it will work.
I am guessing you are meaning the skirt sticking to bare ice or nearly that.
When there is 6 inches of frozen slush on top of the skirt and everything is frozen solid at -20, a little bit of water from the hole will only make things worse.
It is a matter of degrees...how frozen into the ice is the skirt?
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Pack snow underneath the skirt before you bank it. Spent many week long trips using this technique and at the end of the trip I just gave the shack a small kick and broke everything loose with ease.
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I started carrying lock and windshield de-icer, mainly for when the tip of my kdrill would freeze up. It’s basically just canned alcohol. Works great to get the auger tip cleaned off when it is really cold out.
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I started carrying lock and windshield de-icer, mainly for when the tip of my kdrill would freeze up. It’s basically just canned alcohol. Works great to get the auger tip cleaned off when it is really cold out.
Windshield de-icer works fine but spray the ice under the tent flap first when you set up.
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I bank snow and ice chips under the skirt and on the inside of my hub. I put other stuff as weight on top of the skirt on the outside.
I keep a chisel, a hammer with pick end, and a rubber mallet.
I use rubber mallet to hit ice off of bottom of most equipment when slush/ice forms on it. Like wheel well of the truck or sometimes ice/slush on the wheel rims.
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Cover the skirt with a layer of snow and try to keep slush off of it. Of its bare ice, i will pull the skirt to the INSIDE of the tent and put slush on it. It wont freeze if you have a heater on, and if it does then just crank the heater to high while you are packing your gear. Never ever put slush on the outside unless its above freezing.
If somehow it does accidentally get stuck, well you are pretty SOL. I guess you could pour water on it while lifing up, but you are going to have a frozen mess afterwards
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Piss on it! ;)
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I second the rubber mallet. So many uses other than trying to beat your skirt loose. I mainly carry it to nock ice off the auger, just have to be careful of the blades. It’s also very handy when you run through overflow and it freezes in your snow machine track.
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I am guessing you are meaning the skirt sticking to bare ice or nearly that.
When there is 6 inches of frozen slush on top of the skirt and everything is frozen solid at -20, a little bit of water from the hole will only make things worse.
It is a matter of degrees...how frozen into the ice is the skirt?
Ok, obviously if your shanty has melted into the ice, 2" deep into the surface of the ice, you are gonna have issues. But here is the common scenario... I use my hub when I can't pull my 400lb flip over with a snow machine. Usually this is when there is no snow, so I have to walk on glare ice. So I set the Clam Bigfoot XL4000T on glare ice, and if it's cold or windy I will drill up a few piles of slush and use my skimmer to plop them down on the edge of the skirt in like 8 places to hold it down and purposely freeze the skirt to the ice. During the day of fishing, using the propane heater it will likely condense in the shanty and with my slush plies the skirt is usually frozen pretty good ON THE SURFACE of the glare ice. This is when I crank up the greatest of all augers, the K-Drill (lolololol) and punch a bunch of holes about 6" from the edge of the skirt. I use the drill to pump up a few dozen gallons of water into the general area and it will free the skirt from the ice no problem.
If you have left your shanty on the ice for 2 weeks in spring where it has melted into the ice, well you need some Archaeology tools or something to extricate it. Should be common sense. Liquid water will thaw frozen water pretty good. Same concept of putting your frozen traps with frozen spools in the hole for 5 minutes to thaw them out.
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Cover the skirt with a layer of snow and try to keep slush off of it. Of its bare ice, i will pull the skirt to the INSIDE of the tent and put slush on it. It wont freeze if you have a heater on, and if it does then just crank the heater to high while you are packing your gear. Never ever put slush on the outside unless its above freezing.
If somehow it does accidentally get stuck, well you are pretty SOL. I guess you could pour water on it while lifing up, but you are going to have a frozen mess afterwards
I never thought of putting the skirt inside the house, that's pretty clever but I don't like how much floor space I'd lose. Yes, the shanty get's wet with my method but it's wet anyway from condensation or weather or whatever, so I put my shack in the tub at home every night after I use it. Probably why it still looks brand, spanking new after 6 years, EXCEPT for one corner of the skirt where I tore it trying to free it from being frozen. That's actually the day I learned my trick and it works like a charm.
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Wear taller heels ;D
:clap: :roflmao:
smitty :tipup:
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Unfrozen?
Is that like unthawed?
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My wife says to reach down , firmly grasp skirt tail and pull up before squatting down !!! 🤔🤔 but she does admit that usually she just prefers to wear her striker suit lol