Horton vs MS

[Horton]

The rumor is that there are 26 inches of ice on @MS’s lake.

 

My lake is basically dry but 700-900 gallons per minute are being pumped in as of yesterday. Who will ski at home first this year?

[The_MS]

It took 1 month to fill our lake up so I think @Horton is wet first. Where are you getting the water? Farmers cant irrigate crops but @Horton gets to fill the lake. So much for the Smelt.

[Horton]

Dig a well. Pay the electric bill. Get water.

 

Bakersfield is not as screwed as the rest of the state.

[The_MS]

Progress looks good, cant wait to take a rip.

[Jordan]

I snow skied yesterday...it snowed here today...sigh

[MattP]

The only time I wold vote for @MS would be for Cannada hockey team's biggest fan...

[BraceMaker]

Cut MS's ice, pack with sawdust in a truck and stack in Horton's lake.

[ral]

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[Bulldog]

This is not even a contest....

[OTF]

I am willing to use explosives to get rid of our ice

[thager]

As long as @Horton keeps his hair out of the water the pumps just might be able to keep up with evaporation. Brillo pads are natural sponges! Oh,, and they hold water too!

[A_B]

@OTF‌ it still has to melt. @horton can ski when his lake is up on the slope for shoreline if he had to.

[thager]

Hmmmmm.....Since the vote does not specify kind of skiing I think MS and a four wheeler on snow skies would qualify for the win.

[DmaxJC_ski]

the question is wait for the full 8ft of water or is 5ft close enough? min of 2 months yet before our 3ft of ice is gone....

[Horton]

My lake must be all the way full before we ski.

[MattP]

@Horton all you need is what 3.5-4'?

[Horton]

@MattP No. We spent like 50 bazzillion dollars to re-dig the lake and get the shorelines and slopes right. No one is going to run a boat at Precision until the water level is where it belongs. Unlike @OB I think smooth water is worth a little effort.

[kfennell]

Lake holds like 23 Million gallons of water? thats for 2500 x 250 x 5 ft average depth. At that rate you will be fill in like 17 days at 900 GPM. In 17 days you'll lose say 3 inches to evaporation at these temps so maybe it takes 1 more day to make up for that. You should be skiing in 18 days and there will still be a shit load of ice in 18 days if they are currently at 26" If your average is 6 ft you are closer to 23 days, if your lake is only 2200 ft long and 200 ft wide you are closer to 16 days for 6 ft average. If you tell me the exact dimensions and slope and the expected average temperature and wind while you fill I can estimate fill time ;) (assuming your ground is non porous, I have no idea how much water gets lost on first fill does anyone?

[6balls]

We have 42 inches of ice...uggh.

 

 

[MrJones]

If you don't mind me asking, what size pump and or how many are you running?? We have a 4" that is supposed to run 130 gal/min. I know a 6" flows a lot more, but 700-900 seems like a bunch.

[OTF]

@AB if I blow it open @MS can lasso the chunks to the shoreline..........where's the sense of adventure? Or if I use enough the blocks of ice won't land in the lake......,of coarse there's always if they fly too far we may be remodeling our houses. On second thought we'll let Mother Nature run it's coarse. I will post a thickness update every 3-4 days if @horton will post a depth update.

[Horton]

My lake is about 7 inches by now. But i skied next door today without any rubber. BallerIndex of 83.35

[Ham_Wallace]

I have been putting up with the "Never Ending Winter"! Horton gets wet first! His hair may still be wet when MS gets a set!

[dtm8119]

@6balls - measured 24" yesterday ice fishing

[6balls]

@dtm8119 hope that's true here, too. I don't ice fish but just a few weeks ago an ice fisherman told me he had to use an extension and that we had 42 inches out front. If it's down to 24'' now I'm pretty excited...that's a good melt in a week of warmer weather.

[dtm8119]

@MS - just see where you can rent one of these guys and in a day or two you'll be skiing

 

 

 

[xrated]

@6balls I don't know the ice thickness up around McGregor but this past weekend we were just starting to lose snow on the lake. A few bare spots the rest was hard crusty snow.

 

Just be glad we had all this snow this winter or the ice would have been unreal thick with the cold temps.

 

2 years ago on the 22nd I was skiing with @MS in a wetsuit because some rain had dropped the water temp into the 60s! Never mind it was the only time I skied that year due to surgery.

[OTF]

TL2 now has 23 inches of ice, the first 6 are rather slushy. Mid 40's the next 2 days.

[xrated]

After the wind yesterday and the weekend forecast I say @MS and @OTF are both in the water before @Horton

[kstateskier]

This thread is depressing

[TylerR]

Some of us in the south have been skiing for a few weeks now

[OTF]

@horton whats the lake level?

[Horton]

Freaking lake fill its SLOW! We are somewhere around 30". So 66" to go.

[OTF]

Ice was to soft for me to get on and poke a hole here at TLE2 today. Be surprised if it's not open by this time next week.

[Marco]

@Horton - It gets even slower as it fills up, being wider at the top. Like my martini glass:)

 

How many million gallons is your lake? Ours is only around 12 and it took 3-4 weeks to fill the first time.

[Horton]

the fill is SLOW. We are at about 38 inches today. The lake needs to be 96" deep - 8'

 

Here is the math as I see it

96" - 38" = Time* (the same time amount of time a 5 year old thinks it is until Christmas)

[Bulldog]

John...Filling your lake is like spring coming in Alberta...slow, slow, slow

[Horton]

@Bulldog yes but unlike spring & summer in Alberta it will last more that a week.

[Bulldog]

@Horton so true......once that lake is full you will forget the pain of waiting. Once your baby arrives time will go by faster than ever. Should have had baby first, filling lake second...no then the lake would not have happened...your plan is better.

[The_MS]

Need a few more days in the 60s.

[OTF]

With a heavy dose of wind and were wet

[klindy]

@Horton either your pump is no where near 700-900 gallons a minute or you're leaking water out the bottom. Hope it's the former. We had to deal with the latter when we built a lake.

[xrated]

The rain today has to be helping melt that ice.

[Horton]

@klindy‌ no things are going as expected. I had a very optimistic projection of 3 weeks to fill. 6 weeks is more realistic.

 

Note we have the well most of the time but do share with two other lakes.

[klindy]

If I recall, we pumped about 8-900 gpm and filled the lake in just about 2-1/2 weeks. The lake in Michigan is 1800'x200' with most being 6-7' deep and a "hole" that was about 12' deep or so. On our initial fill it came within 3' of the top and we couldn't add another inch of water. Turned out the liner was leaking. We drained added about 12" of clay and refilled.

 

Takes time but worth the wait!

[Horton]

I think was are bigger than that but honestly do not know the exact size.

[klindy]

@Horton I was referring to the lake we dug back in the mid 90's not the lake you're on today.

[MISkier]

@klindy, what lake in Michigan are you talking about?

[The_MS]

60 mph winds should help loosen things up a bit.

[OTF]

@Horton too bad we couldn't route our extra water to your lake, with the weekends melt were way over full. Now if the ice is gone were going to have to wait for the level to drop........can't win in MN