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I think I just may be on to something here...
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I was down on our pond today, drilling holes and fuckin around with an underwater camera. I had used a chisel to check the ice. When I went to head off the pond I pushed the chisel in front of me, and much to my surprise, it produced snow. Straight up snow got scraped off the ice from the chisel, I later realized I could do the same with a wood boring bit and an electric drill. The problem with this is its labor intesive, you can make yourself a snowball relatively quickly but not before your had cramps up.
I'm trying to figure out a way to scrape snow off ice on a larger scale. I'm thinking I could just drag a larger blade across the pond in some form, but I dont know where to procure such a blade, or how to sharpen a long eneough piece of metal evenly. So thats about all I have, you guys help me fill in the rest.
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So you discovered that snow is really ice. Ever heard of a Zamboni? There is your mass ice scraping machine. Congrats.
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Oh thats a shitload of help, I'll go bust out a couple grand for a zamboni, only realize that they only scrape of the shit thats loose from skates, or very top layer.
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Oh yeah, guess what i learned in 5th grade the other day, snow is frozen water, and so is ice!
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Wow... I can't believe you made this post.
-aaron
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So do you want a fucking metal or something? I don't get the point of this post.
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dude, thats a brilliant idea. im gonna nominate you for a nobel prize
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haha.....most of the time ice rinks will just dump the snow from the zamboni at a spot outside of the rink just go get a truck and steal some snow if your that desperate
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so if your pond is frozen then there should be some sort of winter going on. and im pretty sure winter produces its own snow. but good luck with that.
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This is Minnesota we're talking about man, I wish.
So if anybody has any ideas on how to go about this or what to use for a massive blade, post up. Otherwise, if you have the IQ of a retarded lab rat and think I just realized what snow is, dont post. If you couldnt draw from this post that I was after ideas on how to scrape a layer of ice off a pond, or if you thought that when I said I was on to so something I meant the fact that snow and ice are the same thing, than you are dumb. Other than that, pretty much the worst worded post in NS history...
So respond to this: How the fuck do you obtain snow from ice, without droping shitloads of $$ for a samboni, and using common materials?
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what sized pond are we talking here?
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dude, actually zambonis have a huge blade that scrapes the entire top layer off the ice, well below where skate marks are. they then put down a layer of water to form new ice. you can get used zamboni blades somewhere i'm sure; they did it on monster garage.
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