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Wax your ice sleds - Kent - 07-10-2024
I just finished waxing my two ice sleds. Much easier to wax them when the sleds are 90 to 100 degrees than when they are cold in the late fall or earlier winter.
RE: Wax your ice sleds - FishfulThinkin - 07-10-2024
How do you keep the wax from running off on a day like today?
RE: Wax your ice sleds - dubob - 07-10-2024
(07-10-2024, 08:29 PM)Kent Wrote: I just finished waxing my two ice sleds. Much easier to wax them when the sleds are 90 to 100 degrees than when they are cold in the late fall or earlier winter.OR - get a snowdog to pull them and don't worry about it.
RE: Wax your ice sleds - doggonefishin - 07-10-2024
(07-10-2024, 08:29 PM)Kent Wrote: I just finished waxing my two ice sleds. Much easier to wax them when the sleds are 90 to 100 degrees than when they are cold in the late fall or earlier winter.
I thought you weren't as gung ho for ice fishing as you used to be? Ice fishing is the last thing on my mind today.
I agree with the other poster though. Does the heated wax even stay on the sled at these temps?
RE: Wax your ice sleds - TubeDude - 07-10-2024
BUT...too early to buy wax worms.
RE: Wax your ice sleds - Kent - 07-10-2024
(07-10-2024, 08:44 PM)FishfulThinkin Wrote: How do you keep the wax from running off on a day like today?
I am hopeful that enough sticks to the skis, that it helps. I spent just a few minutes doing it, so that isn't a concern and the block of paraffin wax, that I have, will last long beyond my lifetime, so that also isn't a concern.
(07-10-2024, 09:33 PM)doggonefishin Wrote:(07-10-2024, 08:29 PM)Kent Wrote: I just finished waxing my two ice sleds. Much easier to wax them when the sleds are 90 to 100 degrees than when they are cold in the late fall or earlier winter.
I thought you weren't as gung ho for ice fishing as you used to be? Ice fishing is the last thing on my mind today.
As I have gotten older, I'm not as "gung ho" about ice fishing as I once was, but I still go.
(07-10-2024, 09:14 PM)dubob Wrote:(07-10-2024, 08:29 PM)Kent Wrote: I just finished waxing my two ice sleds. Much easier to wax them when the sleds are 90 to 100 degrees than when they are cold in the late fall or earlier winter.OR - get a snowdog to pull them and don't worry about it. ???
That would only create new challenges (Where to store it and how to get it to the ice?) and a lot of expenses.
RE: Wax your ice sleds - dubob - 07-11-2024
(07-10-2024, 10:38 PM)Kent Wrote:Kent, at our ages, we need all the help we can get. To heck with the expenses - you earned the money; you should be the one to spend and enjoy it.(07-10-2024, 09:14 PM)dubob Wrote: OR - get a snowdog to pull them and don't worry about it.That would only create new challenges (Where to store it and how to get it to the ice?) and a lot of expenses.
Tight lines always.
RE: Wax your ice sleds - Kent - 07-11-2024
(07-11-2024, 03:40 AM)dubob Wrote:(07-10-2024, 10:38 PM)Kent Wrote:Kent, at our ages, we need all the help we can get. To heck with the expenses - you earned the money; you should be the one to spend and enjoy it.(07-10-2024, 09:14 PM)dubob Wrote: OR - get a snowdog to pull them and don't worry about it.That would only create new challenges (Where to store it and how to get it to the ice?) and a lot of expenses.
Tight lines always.
Bob, I agree with your sentiment. I have owned a snowmobile and a snowkitty (my name for a homemade Snowdog), and I have decided it wasn't worth the hassle. Perhaps, if I had a place to store one, and a small trailer, I would have a different attitude.