Ice cutting?

[flushcut]

I was contacted by the yacht club to cut a large circle in the ice on Delavan Lake and I am wondering do I use bar oil ( I assume veggie oil) or do I not need it? Anybody have experience with this?

 

[SeanKroll]

IDK, but use Canola routinely, and would suggest canola over none. Water will lubricate some, but...


https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/best-chain-to-cut-ice.86855/



how big a hole?

 

[No_Bivy]

I doubt you need oil

 

[SeanKroll]

You shouldn't be fighting heat build-up.

Seems worth a test run, at home, if a lake is far.

 

[MasterBlaster]

After you make the cut, what do you do next?

 

[flushcut]

IDK, but use Canola routinely, and would suggest canola over none. Water will lubricate some, but...


https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/best-chain-to-cut-ice.86855/



how big a hole?

36' in diameter

 

[flushcut]

After you make the cut, what do you do next?

They wanna make an ice carousel for a party they are having on the lake. Trolling motor lights and what not but I am just cutting ice the rest is all them.

 

[MasterBlaster]

You don't have to remove what you'll cut? Just leave it in the water?

 

[FireFighterZero]

The boys use chainsaws for cutting ice holes all the time.


I think they just use bar oil......but something else might be better....like vegetable oil.

 

[Buddy]

Ah hell, just use bar oil. If someone asks about the oil slick on the water just tell them that it’s a natural accumulation of oil that seeps out of the lake bed and gets trapped beneath the ice in winter time...

 

[stig]

For a hole that size, I doubt you need to use oil at all.

 

[Raj]

I baby my stuff. I'd be inclined to use skilley or some sort of water soluble cutting fluid or oil.

 

[Burnham]

I never changed out the regular dino bar oil when I cut ice off of the fish hatchery intake pond. Never killed any fingerlings or smolts in the runs with oil, either.

 

[flushcut]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll probably use veggie oil to make the greenies happy.

 

[No_Bivy]

https://youtu.be/JTqQd8jfW6I

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[MasterBlaster]

That's pretty cool! I guess it needs to keep moving to prevent refreezing.

 

[Mellow]

Very cool! I'd never heard of that before now. You'll definitely need a jig to make sure it's a perfect circle.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like the way they get it moving... I bet it's neat laying flat on your back like they were doing! Watching the stars!

 

[emr]

We use canola oil when cutting ice fishing holes up here.

A few weeks ago we were up at our cottage by Mountain and wanted to see how thick the ice was. I didn't have my saw but we used my neighbor's with bar oil..... It worked fine and didn't leave any noticeable slick.

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[MasterBlaster]

I wonder if a couple trolling motors woulda kept it spinning?

 

[lumberjack]

I'd certainly think so, MB.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm surprised we haven't seen that before. Very cool!

 

[flushcut]

Yep that is what's getting made and they plan on using trolling motors. One or two I am not sure.

 

[Buddy]

I’m with you fellas, that’s cool. A couple 90horse outboards would be interesting...

 

[Burnham]

Whoa!!! Centrifugal force in spades....