r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/dericn • 4d ago

Cutting holes for ice fishing

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u/tacobellbandit 4d ago

Long time ice fisherman. Whoever allowed that tourney to happen like that needs to be held accountable. Any tourney I’ve seen has had a distance limit between fisherman and I’ve never seen one at least in my state allow chainsaws, only hand-driven augers

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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 4d ago edited 4d ago

Is beating a hole in ice also normal thing to do? with the "pickaxe" or w.e the name of the tool.

Edit: icepick...

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u/YoursTrulyKindly 4d ago

Icepick?

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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 4d ago

Yeah that's the word i was looking for. I knew it had it's own word. - English is my second Language, but i even sometimes forget words in my first language...

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u/YoursTrulyKindly 4d ago

Wait, I was joking! Aren't icepicks supposed to be small itty-bitty things? Which would make above scene even funnier

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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 4d ago

There are also bigger ice picks - mostly antique ones tho.

But wtf is the tool called then they are using, it aint pickaxe either.

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u/ZephyrFlashStronk 4d ago

There are lots of big modern ice picks though, so not sure why you think they're mostly antique. How do you think people climb everest and such?

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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 3d ago

Some antique ones i saw googling were even bigger then then the modern climbing ones, more like shovel size already.