Author Topic: Finally found a pic of the trailers that went through the ice (Read 5632 times)

Hard_H2O · « **on:** Jan 12, 2005, 11:02 AM »

Snowmobile races near Brainerd a few years back. Bunch of trailers parked on the ice. They broke through one night. I think there were some guys sleeping in a few of them.

hali-man · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 11:05 AM »

What a bunch of morons!
Hope no one was hurt.

SLIPPERYFISH · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 11:20 AM »

Holy crap!!!! Theres a few bucks sitting there!!!!

Hookset · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 12:46 PM »

Rather be fishing....

Skiff · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 01:27 PM »

They ever figure out why the trailers sank? Too much weight too close, or did the ice shift and a lead open up? or what......?

Hard_H2O · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 02:06 PM »

I think they were just too close together on ice that wasn't thick enough. If memory serves me right some of the tow vehicles were on land and some of the vehicles and trailers were in shallower water so at least some of them were not destroyed.

camo_fish · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 02:38 PM »

wow, that is crazy.

NJ_ICE_HUNTER · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 03:12 PM »

Ha Ha...........I've seen that before. What do they expect?

SHAMEN · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 03:28 PM »

Ha good for em...fish structure now for the summer...ha..

icy mike · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 03:54 PM »

Sooooo close to shore... and yet so far...

Bottom bouncer · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 04:07 PM »

Have a friend here who was racing that weekend, lucky he wasn't one of those guys.

fishhead4268 · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 05:29 PM »

THey are BUMMIN!!!!!!!!!!!

bigredonice · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 06:35 PM »

i would say that the ice must have shifted or was way WAY too thin, as i have seen 20+ trucks parked right next to each other about 20' off shore on saratoga, when there was only 8" of ice.

sbfPA_Mike · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 06:38 PM »

It was a very warm winter to that point. There was roughly 14" of ice there, but the vehicles were to close together. No-one was in the vehhicles. I don't believe the 8" with vehicles for a minute.

Mike

Frozen_nutts · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 06:39 PM »

I would pay $$$ to see Evil Knievel jump that!

bigredonice · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 07:10 PM »

sbfpa_Mike...i didnt realize it either, till i parked my truck along side the others, popped a hole, and the water came out of the hole like a GEYSER

i got the hell off of there. it was off of fitch road, on saratoga lake, in february about 3 years ago.

gator_hunter71 · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 13, 2005, 02:58 AM »

Towing service wet dream. Literaly. $$

$$

sbfPA_Mike · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 13, 2005, 05:57 PM »

I bet Red,

what is a "Fitch Road"?

Mike

bigredonice · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 13, 2005, 07:09 PM »

"fitch road" is one of the ice fishing access points on saratoga lake

or were you joking

mark mercer · « **Reply #19 on:** Jan 13, 2005, 10:08 PM »

thats alot of money in the water right there

Marsh · « **Reply #20 on:** Jan 13, 2005, 10:49 PM »

LOL alot of money in the water there. hope no one got hurt $:-\$

MN_transplant · « **Reply #21 on:** Jan 14, 2005, 07:54 AM »

Originally from Brainerd, MN, was there then.
Noone was hurt, but many had the dookie scared out of them.
It was an unusually mild winter that year, ice was real thin and sporadic. One spot would have 16 in, 10 feet away was 4 inches. wierd year. We had a number of snowmobiles, atvs and other vehicles go through that year.

MN_transplant · « **Reply #22 on:** Jan 14, 2005, 07:55 AM »

Snowmobile race goes on after trailers fall into lake

DETROIT LAKES (AP) -- A big snowmobile race went ahead this weekend despite an accident that nearly sank the event.

Eleven snowmobile trailers, a camper and two pickup trucks fell through the ice before dawn Saturday, taking tool boxes, generators, all-terrain vehicles, fuel containers and other equipment to the bottom of Big Detroit Lake.

The water was deep enough to cover the pickups, said Mike Nodsle, a member of the Ultra Snowmobile Club, which hosted the World Snowmobile Association Pro Ice race.

Two sets of divers and three wrecking companies worked Saturday and part of Sunday to pull the submerged trailers and vehicles from the icy water. They hauled the last one out Sunday afternoon.

World Snowmobile Association officials decided to go ahead with the two-day race because many racers had traveled a long distance for the event. Saturday's racing started four hours late.

About 150 contestants pre-registered for the 10th annual event, which is one of the region's largest snowmobile competitions. Racers came from North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Canada.

Some racers who lost equipment in the water worked all night to get their sleds ready to race Sunday. Some gave up after recovering their equipment.

"Some of them just packed up and went home," Nodsle said.

Those who stayed concentrated on winning Sunday as they whipped around the half-mile oval track at more than 100 mph, kicking up clouds of snow as they rounded the ends of the track.

The only mishap Sunday was a racer flipping his snowmobile. He wasn't injured.

"No more problems," Nodsle said. "Just a typical race day."


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Author Topic: Finally found a pic of the trailers that went through the ice (Read 5632 times)

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