Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Tweed]
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01/08/18 08:31 PM
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I just use a hand auger. If I get cold I go and drill a new hole. Warms me right back up. Oh ...the resident tough guy......I buried my gas auger to the handles one year...without going through....you can keep your hand tool ...:)
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Nessmuck]
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01/08/18 08:56 PM
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I just use a hand auger. If I get cold I go and drill a new hole. Warms me right back up. Oh ...the resident tough guy......I buried my gas auger to the handles one year...without going through....you can keep your hand tool ...:) A lot of times here late season we need an extension on our augers, at least a 12". Add another 12" on top of that and you need a ladder to start drilling the hole lol
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: GoneTrappin]
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01/08/18 09:02 PM
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You're going to be hard pressed to find an auger that will last 40 years. Check out the Nils hand auger if you're only using it twice a year. No engine/ batteries to maintain or worry about X2
Let's go Brandon!
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/08/18 09:55 PM
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My MN ice fishing buddy tells me propane is the way to go.
I don't fish enough on the ice to have an opinion.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
--The Dude
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/08/18 09:58 PM
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I still use of school hand spoon auger. I have access to s gas auger but my old spoon if well sharpened works like a charm. Drilled many holes with it and starts every time. LOL
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/08/18 10:31 PM
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I tried to get my Eskimo auger started this summer but it wouldn't start. I haven't been ice fishing in 10 years.
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/08/18 10:38 PM
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the new K drills would be your best bet as long as you have a working drill you have a working auger for as long as you want my buddy just got one for early ice. with the bits that go on drills you dont want the metal flighting it will bind up in the thicker ice.
the one in the run A.K.A the PINK TRAPPER
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/08/18 10:45 PM
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I use a clam plate , its going on its third season . Its been one of my best investments and I use my drill year around
Off in my own world
Fish on !!!!!!!
47 years in this game of trapping
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: lebowski]
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01/08/18 11:49 PM
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Nessmuck
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My MN ice fishing buddy tells me propane is the way to go.
I don't fish enough on the ice to have an opinion. My MN ice fishing buddy tells me propane is the way to go.
I don't fish enough on the ice to have an opinion. Propane sucks....the augers weigh a ton...and the propane freezes up when cold....you can't leave it in the back of your truck overnight and expect it to start on a cold morning.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/09/18 01:09 AM
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Propane has it's issues. I wouldnt own one, be better off with an ION. Propane might be okay in temperate climates like Pennsylvania.
Nessy, don't they sell extensions over there? Most years we have to put one on fishing Lake of the Woods. It's the ice combined with snow that gets ya most of the time. I dont recall ever have to put two extensions on fishing LOW but did once on lake winnipeg.
"Gold is money, everything else is just credit" JP Morgan
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Steven 49er]
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01/09/18 01:39 AM
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Don't need an extension 98 % of the time...but one year we were in Northern NH ice fishing...near the Canadien Boarder....wish I had an extension on that trip....
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/09/18 01:46 AM
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I got by without an extension all last year. I thought about putting it on as it's easy to suck water in the carb but that was as far as I got lol.
I don't have any experience with the four strokes
"Gold is money, everything else is just credit" JP Morgan
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: lebowski]
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01/09/18 02:23 AM
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My MN ice fishing buddy tells me propane is the way to go.
I don't fish enough on the ice to have an opinion. I would guess he is one of the very few that does. Unless he only fishes when it is above freezing.. Nils are the best augers out there but just about any commercially made auger will suffice for a guy that only fishes a few times a year imo
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: rags57078]
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01/09/18 01:28 PM
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I use a clam plate , its going on its third season . Its been one of my best investments and I use my drill year around Clam plate here also. I run a 6” lazer on it. Or I can put the handle on it if I need to.
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/09/18 01:59 PM
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lebowski
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I like the idea of not having to deal with an engine, fuel, or charging a battery to use the auger.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
--The Dude
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Nessmuck]
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01/09/18 02:01 PM
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lebowski
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well that's no good! My MN ice fishing buddy tells me propane is the way to go.
I don't fish enough on the ice to have an opinion. My MN ice fishing buddy tells me propane is the way to go.
I don't fish enough on the ice to have an opinion. Propane sucks....the augers weigh a ton...and the propane freezes up when cold....you can't leave it in the back of your truck overnight and expect it to start on a cold morning.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
--The Dude
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/09/18 02:32 PM
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Thank you for input- only found here on Tman. So maybe 40 years is a bit too much to ask from a powered auger. I have a couple of hand powered and I’m truly only asking because I’m facing more than my normal 4-15” of ice and likely 24-30” by the time I make it. The ion sounds interesting even tho I understand battery life is not something I can count on long term. Can I expect to easily drill 10-20 holes with an ion or other electric In say 18” of ice? Yes. The Ion will easily do that. Couple things with the electrics- It helps to keep that batteries warm. I've only used them a few times, but that is just what I've heard about keeping batteries warm from friends who have them. So if your out for a long cold day that could be a potential issue. Also, one of my favorite things about the electrics is that they have a reverse (at leasat the Ion does...), so that once the hole is drilled, you can you the reverse to push 95% the snow and ice shaving down the hole and under the ice instead of having to scoop them out of the hole or make a big messing trying to pull them out of the hole with the auger. The Ion does a really good job cutting holes in clean ice, if the ice has silt in it or the blades get dull, performance goes down alot. As far as gas augers go- Had a Jiffy for a few years. One of the newish models (bought it in 2012 or so). When it was running, it cut great. But it was kinda of POS and I struggled alot with the throttle cable getting water in it and freezing. It was also pretty finicky and I had to be extra careful with keeping snow off of the power head when it was one the snowmachine sled. Got rid of that thing and got an Eskimo. It's been great so far. I've drilled hundreds of holes with it and it hasn't given me a lick of trouble (knock on wood). The K-drill auger flytes cut really awesome and are light, but I just can't get on the 20V cordless drill bandwagon for drilling through any more than really thin ice. I have a k-drill flyte that I mated up to a Tanaka gas powered drill head. Had to have a custom adapter machined up to attach the flyte to the power head, but other than than it is awesome!
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Re: Ice Auger suggestions...
[Re: Beaglador]
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01/09/18 03:11 PM
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seniortrap
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Right now a 10" ION runs about $650.00 delivered to the door. The 8" is $500.00 delivered.
If either ice fishing or setting traps through the ice, my choice is the 10".
Look at the bottom of a plastic 5 gallon bucket. Its just over 10".
That's a lot of room for my 160's set under the ice.
Last edited by seniortrap; 01/09/18 03:12 PM.
Vietnam--1967 46th. Const./Combat Engineers
"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction." "After the first shot, all plans go out the window!"
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