Author Topic: 4 man Ice Cube - Best Floor Plan  (Read 13875 times)

Offline RLWagner

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Re: 4 man Ice Cube - Best Floor Plan
« Reply #30 on: Feb 04, 2009, 11:59 AM »
Anyone ever sleep in their ice cube yet? I'm sitting here with Blue Igloo who owns one and is raving about it but has never spent the night in one. I'm 6'3" and was thinking of sleeping corner to corner since its 71 X 71 inches (4 man).
Yup. It was not intentional, but had a rough night prior to fishing at 6AM. Buddy came over and woke me up curled up in a ball on the ice inside the cube. Guess I was like that a couple hours. Actually was quite comfortable.  :embarassed:

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Re: 4 man Ice Cube - Best Floor Plan
« Reply #31 on: Feb 04, 2009, 06:20 PM »
I made a floor for my 4-person Ice Cube out of a 4' x 8' sheet of 7/16" OSB (because it's fairly inexpensive and quite easy to work with).

I cut a 2 ft piece off one end (2' x 4') then made a 12" square cut-out along one long edge of that to allow for a fishing hole. It looks something like this:
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I then cut the remaining 4' x 6' piece in half up the middle to make two 2' x 6' pieces. One piece I left alone, and the other I made a couple more 12" square cut-outs to allow for more fishing holes. There's enough room between the holes for a camping chair, and 13" on each end that accommodates the coke/milk crate that my 20lb propane tank sits in. I then attached those two boards back together with a couple of hinges so that they could be folded up into one reasonably small unit for easy storage in my 6 1/2 ft truck box.

With that folded out plus the smaller board along side it all looks something like the next figure, of course depending on if or how I want to align the the smaller board:
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It's not too heavy, although I don't normally use it when I'm going to walk or sled out on the ice ... usually just leave it packed-up in the pickup truck box then pull out anywhere that I can drive out to for ice fishing. 3/8" OSB would be only slightly lighter weight.

Again, that's from one 4' x 8' sheet. I came across another 2' x 6' section of the same 7/16" OSB, so constructed a second identical outer-side board with the hole cut-outs. Now it completely covers the Ice Cube floor, of course except for the hole cut-outs, and looks like this:
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Re: 4 man Ice Cube - Best Floor Plan
« Reply #32 on: Feb 16, 2009, 04:10 PM »
Here are pic's of my floor layout ...



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Re: 4 man Ice Cube - Best Floor Plan
« Reply #33 on: Mar 04, 2012, 03:39 PM »
Any more updates or pictures, I think I will be building a floor for my 4 man ice cube.  Plans look simple but good, may try a piano hinge and only have 3 holes, 2 for fishing and for the vex

 



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