ah true, but a puck costs...89¢ each! I went through maybe a dozen this winter... boards cost how much?

Welcome to the board! Things are a bit quiet at this time of year!

If you haven't started, get the water down. The long term forecast for southern Ontario looks good. Every day for the next 14 days has highs in the negatives!! Perfect rink making weather. If it snows, get the snow off the ice otherwise it will insulated it and the ice making will slow down! I alrea...

Flood man flood, the temps have been a lot colder than you posted. Tonight it's -13c. You. Already missed 2 good cold days. We have beautiful black clear ice on our pond, were just waiting for it to thicken from 3 to 4 inches then it'll e safe enough yo go out and flood actively!!

KD, Where are you located on Lake ontario? This last week has been phenominal rink building weather!! Sorry to hear about your son's injury! Mon-wed of this week wont be so great (temps up to 4c) but yourrink should survive until the weekend when the temps go back down. Just watch out it's supposed ...

I think this would work well for removing "Ice humps" Torch them off!!

http://www.princessauto.com/pal/product ... -Torch-Kit

Actually I like the Alaska Ice Dragon. But at $3000 each, it's a it expensive for me!! I'm sure that someone could design something with a burner like the dragon, but lighter and less expensive! I was thinking something that looked like a homes one with the burner across the bottom of the T heating ...

I take the opposite approach. I accept the fact that the hose will eventually split and buy the least expensive I can find! the trick is to: 1 blow it out before you coil 2 coil from a higher level so that any water left in will want to drain out as you coil. 3 Storing inside in the warmth helps too...

I'm wondering if you're running your water too warm. My experience with cheap hose is it tends to kink more when it heats up. Maybe try running the water with less heat in it so the hose wants to stay more rigid.

We had the same issue. 20 inches of snow on our pond as a result of the storm!! You have to get the snow off or the ice underneath will be ruined! I took us 3.5 hrs to clear the rink using a single stage snowblower, near the end it was struggling as we uncovered the last areas . The snow did its dam...