Lots of great hide-y spots for the fish once they sink. Great idea with the rubble and manholes.Also ended up with all the concrete man-hole tubes. Bigger and heavier than they look. Hard to work with, but I wanted them for habitat. The recent cold spell froze the ice as thick as I've ever seen it. Decided to role them out and let them melt into location. First one shattered when it first hit the ice. Second one broke in half when I tried to pull it out of the pile and landed on my foot. Pretty sore and swollen. 3rd one rolled out onto the ice effortlessly. Kind of like a bowling ball going down the lane. Thought it might go to far. Sounded kind of neat on the ice. Watched until it slowed, turned to hobble back up to the pile and get another and heard something... the damn thing caught the wind and was rolling back! Lol, made it all the way back to bank. I just stood watching and giggling until it was at my feet. By now I'm considering life choices, but the rest went smoothly.View attachment 61851View attachment 61852View attachment 61853View attachment 61854
Not habitat but kind of fun anyway. The kid and friends made the news with a snowman! Pics don't do it justice, it's huge!
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Whoa! That's cool!That’s awesome! Reminds me of the snow bear my wife and a few of my kids did a couple years ago. My son’s basketball coach challenged the team to a snowman contest when school was canceled. For height perspective, my tall son in the pic was just over 6’ tall at the time!
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The wife sent a pic this morning. They are melting through! If this had happened on a weekend it would have been fun to grab a case of beer, some friends, and sit around taking bets on which would sink first.
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Lol, I'm very surprised that guns didn't get involved with this project. Your method sounds like a "blast"! I'm thinking tannerite would have been appropriate.I guess you're not much of a redneck. Back in my younger days, we would have brought guns and tried to shoot the ice out around them to see who could sink them.
I remember doing that with big empty cans from tomato juice and olive oil. Chuck two identical cans out on the ice and compete to see who could blast a hole in the ice and then shoot enough holes in the can to sink it.
We only did it on rare occasions when there was a flooded area that froze so we could retrieve the cans when the water receded. We were reckless, but we didn't litter.
There's still time!Lol, I'm very surprised that guns didn't get involved with this project. Your method sounds like a "blast"! I'm thinking tannerite would have been appropriate.
The pond does look full! And are you calving now?
Man, I wish I could burn. I've got a pocket of canary grass that's a big mess and a trail runs through it. It's all sorts of humps and holes and I'd like to get it fixed.