Author Topic: Snowmachine rescue. (Read 6690 times)

TGF · « **on:** Feb 27, 2007, 01:32 PM »

I'm going up to Stuart lake on Friday to rescue a snowmachine that went down in 24 ft of water in December. The rider was OK. Plan is to drop my aqua-vu down the hole to locate machine. They put a 2X4 in the hole beside where it went down. So we know the area where it went under. It is also pretty heavy so probably went straight down. Once located we will attach meat hooks to front of skis and then build a tripod with pulley on and hoist her up. Should be not too heavy until it comes out of water. If I have no luck on Friday am, then a diver is coming up in afternoon to help. Any pre advice anyone can give me that might of had some experience in this type of mission before?

perch-man · « **Reply #1 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 03:41 PM »

Was that on your way back from the cabin with all your stuff on it Terry?

TGF · « **Reply #2 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 04:05 PM »

Quote from: perch-man on Feb 27, 2007, 03:41 PM

Was that on your way back from the cabin with all your stuff on it Terry?

No there is over 3 feet of ice on there now. This was a buddy that went under in December. He swam OK

icechip · « **Reply #3 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 05:11 PM »

Nice of you to help Roy out Terry

WALLYWHACKER · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 06:49 PM »

Everybody grab a life jacket or floater suit around around that hole.

ianwuzhere · « **Reply #5 on:** Feb 27, 2007, 07:27 PM »

advice- well just bring lotsa beers and cross your fingers!

akdg · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 05:22 PM »

TGF, Been thinking about how you're going to get the hooks on the sled from a hole in the ice- might want to cut a long pecker pole to use as a tool to hook the hook up. or even better bring some 10' lengths of 1/2 or 3/4 emt conduit and some couplings to make a long pike pole to help get things hooked up- do you get what I'm saying?

TGF · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 06:47 PM »

Already though of that bud and they have cut a 27 ft pecker pole. Plan on using elastic to hold hook on end of pole, then when its on, just pull hard and the elastics will pop off pole and hook. The rope will be attached to the hooks.
It will all be going down tomorrow am. I will post some pics when we get back.

Bailbuster · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 06:53 PM »

I would charge addmission,I have a friend that had divers go get his wheeler in 50ft,it cost $500 good luck.BB

TGF · « **Reply #9 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 09:30 PM »

This is the great white north and we help each other out. I won't be charging anything. The fellow I'm helping get it out is a really nice guy. Him and his brothers helped me with my sons moose. They had a bigger boat and just came up next to it in the water and hoisted it onto their boat. Then we took it to their Island and gutted and quartered it and they helped load it onto my boat. The type of guy that you could call at 4 am and he would be there in a few minutes to help you out. Then laugh about it the next day. The diver as well is free.
I will take some pics for all to laugh over.

greatwhitehunter · « **Reply #10 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 09:36 PM »

Good luck TGF hope everything goes ok.

TGF · « **Reply #11 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 10:50 PM »

Oh everything will be OK and if it isn't I will still be going to catch some hopefully 40 inch plus lakers. Hope to get some great hog shots. Going to the lake I tried to get into last year but got sweated up and ran out of daylight trying to get there. If the crust holds on the 6 feet of snow and it doesn't get too warm...we will be snowmachining in $:-\$ . The pulling up of my buddies snowmachine is just an added bonus to the adventure. After all life is so full of adventures heh, and we get the pleasure of living them

zamboni · « **Reply #12 on:** Mar 01, 2007, 11:02 PM »

Quote from: TGF on Mar 01, 2007, 06:47 PM

Already though of that bud and they have cut a 27 ft pecker pole. Plan on using elastic to hold hook on end of pole, then when its on, just pull hard and the elastics will pop off pole and hook. The rope will be attached to the hooks.
It will all be going down tomorrow am. I will post some pics when we get back.

<------------- he said "pecker pole"

tbone · « **Reply #13 on:** Mar 02, 2007, 03:58 AM »

Take your time out there Terry. Plan it twice and do it once

blue igloo · « **Reply #14 on:** Mar 03, 2007, 11:10 AM »

TGF
Let me know when pics are posted....I want to see how this all ends!
Blue Igloo

cl733 · « **Reply #15 on:** Mar 03, 2007, 04:48 PM »

a fish finder would find it for you,youve got the power auger

TGF · « **Reply #16 on:** Mar 05, 2007, 11:36 PM »

A fish finder might find it but my Aqua-Vu worked better when hooking up the hook onto the ski.
Here is pic of it sitting upright nicely on bottom of Stuart lake in 24ft of water.

After the machine is located on my Aqua-vu, we start drilling a big hole to get it out.

Notice the ice is thick enough for a few more weeks for sure

After the hole is done I put the camera back down and we use a meat hook to attach it to the front ski. Fish-slayer is holding the rope and we attach it to the ATV and winch it up.

Everyone crowds around the hole to see the red thing coming up...

Here is Roy the semi-proud owner of his reclaimed machine

We take it back to his sons shop and after some tinkering for a few hours, it is running.[/img]

Oh yeah we were not alone out there. Some sleddders were practicing for some preliminarys for the Ididarod

tbone · « **Reply #17 on:** Mar 05, 2007, 11:56 PM »

I'm glad everyone was ok, and its great you were able to get the machine back too. Let's hope those involved learned a valuable lesson...

PGKris · « **Reply #18 on:** Mar 06, 2007, 01:15 AM »

Nice pics man! Cool show for sure!

cl733 · « **Reply #19 on:** Mar 06, 2007, 10:45 AM »

I would have thought you would have more ice than that up there in the great white north

TGF · « **Reply #20 on:** Mar 06, 2007, 11:08 AM »

35 inches of solid on that 51 mile long lake. More on smaller lakes.

perch-man · « **Reply #21 on:** Mar 06, 2007, 09:57 PM »

Glad you got the sled up first time i ever saw a sled on a aqua view cool!!!!

zamboni · « **Reply #22 on:** Mar 06, 2007, 10:44 PM »

Did she come up pretty easy, or a little tough?

TGF · « **Reply #23 on:** Mar 06, 2007, 11:05 PM »

Quote from: zamboni on Mar 06, 2007, 10:44 PM

Did she come up pretty easy, or a little tough?

Pretty easy in fact I lifted the rope attached to the ski by myself and was surprised how fairly light it was on dead lift in water. However I couldn't hand over hand it....that was just a straight lift. Much heavier when out of water though. Didn't take long once rope was on the ski to get her up.

Quote from: perch-man on Mar 06, 2007, 09:57 PM

Glad you got the sled up first time i ever saw a sled on a aqua view cool!!!!

Yeah me too

WALLYWHACKER · « **Reply #24 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 05:59 PM »

Cool pics! :thumbsup:should've entered it under "anything category"

perch pounder · « **Reply #25 on:** Mar 07, 2007, 08:50 PM »

I'm surprised you guys didn't set up a sauna and do a polar bear swim

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TGF - I don't see a tourny card for the anything category

Skiff · « **Reply #26 on:** Mar 12, 2007, 08:10 PM »

Great story and pics, Terry! Good thing your friend marked it so well in December. Made it easier to locate the machine for sure.

big walleye · « **Reply #27 on:** Mar 31, 2007, 06:08 AM »

Great pics. machine looks like no harm was done.

Mainedog · « **Reply #28 on:** Apr 02, 2007, 12:31 PM »

Thanks for taking pictures and sharing. Looks like you folks have a lot of ice. Glad the rider is okay and his sled is recovered and running again.

brokenline · « **Reply #29 on:** Nov 26, 2008, 09:14 PM »

thats great to see back out of the water! how much ice was he driving on?

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