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Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a Lake.

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Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a Lake.

Postby Goodburger4 » Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:48 am

Just curious if anyone has any advice on maintaining a nice rink on a lake. Just took over a resort and want to mix work with play and have a nice rink out front on the lake for our guests to use and also to get out and skate myself.

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby ah1fgunner » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:11 pm

Hi John, I spent a few years making lake rinks. The second year I did it, I wanted really "good" ice. I built a hand pull sled out of an old pair of skis, some plywood, and a 2x4. I mounted a 3 inch trash pump to it and would pull it out to rink. Then I would tap a hole with my ice auger to the side of the rink and completely flood it, it was as nice as indoor ice. The 3' pumps are capable of 12,000 gallons an hour. If you get good snow fall, you can even make snow boards and freeze them down too.

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby rinkratjoey » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:22 pm

Hmmmmm.....using the water of the pond to actually resurface the ice!! The wheels are starting to turn.....:)
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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby Joe » Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:52 pm

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby ah1fgunner » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:00 pm

yeah, except it's way faster than the spigot!!!

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby ah1fgunner » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:03 pm

One cautionary note: depending on the depth of water where your rink is, you may need to tie off the suction so it doesn't drop to the bottom of the lake. If it does, you will pump up one hell of a lot of mud and sand which will ruin your day and your blades! Other than that, it's pretty straight forward....

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby Hockeynut » Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:23 pm

Now I thought this would be a great way to resurface the local pond but last year I made the mistake of testing ice thickness by drilling a small hole in the ice. Well that hole drew up a lot of water that never froze so we ended up losing half our our skating surface to standing water. Im not sure what happened but that dang water just wouldnt refreeze. Wouldnt augering a larger hole cause the same problem?

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby ah1fgunner » Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:07 am

I'm guessing that you probably had alot of snow and marginal temps? Gravity still works on a lake, so, the heavy snow will push the ice down and force water up. If the temps are not in the teens, it will stay up and possibly not freeze. I found that if I made make shift snowdraft boards, they would hold any water in or out. Also, I'm not sure if you did, but when you auger your hole, do so outside the rink.

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Re: Tips or tricks for maintaining and making a rink on a La

Postby rinkratjoey » Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:53 pm

I feel your pain. We had a patch shoveled off on the pond for hockey and some teenage ice-fisherman snuck in and drilled holes right on THAT patch!!!! Messed it all up.....

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