VIDEO: camper trailer and snowmobile takes to a frozen lake

Canadian love their ice fishing, but sometimes it gets just a little chilly out there on a windswept lake, especially when it is already -20C with no wind-chill factored in. Some people have tents and some have small portable protective huts big enough for one person. But there is a better way to head out across a frozen lake, as this do-it-yourself ice fisherman shows.
February 22, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Canadian love their ice fishing, but sometimes it gets just a little chilly out there on a windswept lake, especially when it is already -20C with no wind-chill factored in.

Some people have tents and some have small portable protective huts big enough for one person.

But there is a better way to head out across a frozen lake, as this do-it-yourself ice fisherman shows.

He modified his ageing snowmobile to power a small road trailer. In this video, he shows off the camper, and then proudly takes off across the lake.

But he isn’t the only one to fight back against the harsh North American winter. It took another man about a year to create his double snowmobile ice shack, seen by %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal clicking here Visit YouTube page false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzYusGoF38&amp;ebc=ANyPxKpxpnw4ltwOx7JYXu9OQ72wNBwKc4-nqTV5Y0uMumOVK7O5S_GmMuimCbOTYqrmHXw6xa5yTKAClmFL0VAmxTo7Gu85uA false false%>.

It is built from two double track snowmobiles welded together for the base. The top is a welded aluminium frame and riveted aluminium sheeting. It is insulated and warmth comes from a propane heater.

Related Content

  • VIDEO: A little rain never hurt anyone and my car can take it
    June 10, 2016
    It wasn’t some city located in the globe’s tropical regions where rainfall is measured in metres each year. It was the northern European metropolis of London. This past week rain hammered down onto the fair city and immediate surroundings, creating flash floods that made driving in some areas very dangerous. But some drivers refused to be deterred from taking to their favourite road. A little rain wasn’t going to stop them – even if it amounted to a month’s rain, 35mm, in only several hours. It bei
    Read More
  • VIDEO: Piqued at the petrol pump
    August 2, 2016
    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result from the first attempt. That goes for some people who wish to put petrol in their car but don’t quite get the spatial thing, as this video shows. The person appears to expect the filler cap to have moved from one side of the vehicle to the other simply because she drove around the petrol pump. Her confusion over the filler cap is nothing compared to other funnier – and sometimes tragic – happening
    Read More
  • VIDEO: Piqued at the petrol pump
    August 2, 2016
    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result from the first attempt. That goes for some people who wish to put petrol in their car but don’t quite get the spatial thing, as this video shows. The person appears to expect the filler cap to have moved from one side of the vehicle to the other simply because she drove around the petrol pump. Her confusion over the filler cap is nothing compared to other funnier – and sometimes tragic – happening
    Read More
  • Goldhofer rescues O&K RH 120-E from Calenturitas de Prodeco Mine
    November 1, 2016
    It was reportedly a logistical challenge to collect a massive front shovel excavator from the open pit coal mine Calenturitas de Prodeco in north-eastern Colombia. The twin engines of the 290-tonne O&K RH 120-E mining excavator had given up the ghost and could not be repaired on site, leaving the monster stranded atop a high mound of earth. So the mining company contracted heavy haulage specialist Boom Logistics to collect the excavator and transport it to the repair shop 22km away. http://www.goldho
    Read More

Highlighted Content