Ice Harvest 2010
If you follow the webcam you've noticed us snow blowing the lake. It's not for ice skating, it's for ice cutting. We will be putting up ice for next summer in our ice house in the barn. So in August when it's 85F we can enjoy some of our homemade root beer with ice out of the lake.
Over the last 2 weeks we've been keeping an eye on the ice, drilling, and cutting it up. Right now it's the right thickness and ready to cut. It's 15" thick now and the ice cakes will be 15"x 15"x30" when finished. We'll need around 100 cakes to fill the ice house.
So keep watching, we'll take photos and post some video to youtube. The first annual Chesuncook Lake Ice Harvest begins!
Over the last 2 weeks we've been keeping an eye on the ice, drilling, and cutting it up. Right now it's the right thickness and ready to cut. It's 15" thick now and the ice cakes will be 15"x 15"x30" when finished. We'll need around 100 cakes to fill the ice house.
So keep watching, we'll take photos and post some video to youtube. The first annual Chesuncook Lake Ice Harvest begins!
Labels: Ice
posted by Chesuncook at
12:26 PM
2 Comments:
Hello ! We've been checking in on your web cam over a year now watching the seasons change. Today, we were quite puzzled as to what was going and scrutinized the activity for about 15 minutes until we discovered the blog link! We learned something. Very interesting. Susan & Jean from the surrounding Phoenix, Arizona area.
I happened to look at the web cam over the past few days and noticed the snowblower. I thought, neat, the kids are getting a skating rink, then today I saw the ice blocks.
Pardon the pun, but modern-day ice harvesting is WAY cool!
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