Here is a reason why not to trust the ice when you have a large amount of weight on it in once concentrated place. There was between 12 to 14 inches of ice on the lake...Which is more than enough to support a truck, but not this many.

 

One more.....

 

thats embarassing

 

holy crap that would suck!

 

So - as the Captain of the Titanic said "We are just stopping to take on a little ice"

rr

 

MNFORD99, what lake is that? I just moved from MN to MO last year. Lived in MN for 16 years and never could get over people driving on the lakes.

 

EswartZ;
That happened on Big Detroit Lake. It was reported that at its thickest it was about 12 to 13 inches, but at places it was only 6 inches thick. Twelve trailers and four heavy-duty pickup trucks went thru. Happend last weekend. Over a million dollars worth of damage, in all!

 

Thanks for that, Yeah, that is something. It really should have been fine for like I said like one or two of the trucks in a small area, but that many just put too much strain on the ice. We haven't gotten that cold here in Minnesota, as it is, this morning (1/9) it was 41 degrees when I woke up, and that average high for this time of the year is something like 22 degrees and the average low is like 5 degrees. What a screwy winter.
David

 

I thought dropping one little Arctic Cat though the ice was a bad thing.....I guess I was small taters...

 

hummmmm who thought it would be a great idea to park those large and heavy things out there

 

Yeah, I cant see why they all parked together like that. Iam sure that the ice cant support all of those trucks but they thought that all 6 or 7 of them would not be 2 much weight.

Like the wise man said:
"Life is hard, its harder when you are stupid!"