How to do it without powertools!

Alpine

CLEVER !!

RUSSIAN FROZEN LAKE AUTO RECOVERY

Minnesotans would have used 2 backhoes, 2 excavators, a bulldozer, a forklift and 10 snowmobiles-not to mention a case of beer and 10 pounds of hotdogs and hamburgers. Leave it to the Russians! No matter a very simple and praticle solution.

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Ditch-Runner

Looks like they have done that a few times before , very simple and thought out


you know those pyramids maybe they froze over the area and well [:I][:I][:I]

v35

A windlass.
Sometimes our solutions are too complicated.
I was expecting the ice to break with the whole bunch going in the drink.
Good for them. I'll bet they got it running in a day or two.

asphalt cowboy

v35 beat me to it.
The amount of work a simple windlass will do with minimal effort is amazing.

asop

Interesting but some additional details as one of the comments suggested would be helpful in understanding just how the mechanics worked. We've had snow mobiles break thru the ice here. Been awhile but witnessed hooking onto the front end with a long rope and grapple type hook affair and then hooking the end of that long rope to a 2X6 about 20 foot long and then pushing the 2X6 under the ice then cutting a hole in the ice where the 2X6 ends up pulling the snow mobile close to that point and then repeating this process until it can be pulled out from the shore. It worked[;)]

Sperry

I would have brought my donkey out on the ice to walk in circles.

fordsix

i would have brought the wimmin out to walk circles[:o)]

allen griggs

Great video! I love it. You can do a lot with simple, cheap tools and some manpower.

Back in 1830, I'm sure we were doing similar things here in America.

wpage

Tim the tool man Taylor would not go this way![:o)]

perry shooter

When I was a kid had a neighbor That cleared about 2 acres with a Mule with something very close to that for a big produce garden. Cut all the trees for firewood to sell And pulled all the stumps with a Long pole on a windlass he tied off the winlass to 2 or three of the largest stumps and only had to dig out the very last one.

pwillie

I had a friend that got his big heavy Jeep Wagon stuck in the river swamp mud, and used a similar contraption to winch his vehicle out...two day job in the river swamp...[8D]

gearheaddad

quote:Originally posted by asop
Interesting but some additional details as one of the comments suggested would be helpful in understanding just how the mechanics worked. We've had snow mobiles break thru the ice here. Been awhile but witnessed hooking onto the front end with a long rope and grapple type hook affair and then hooking the end of that long rope to a 2X6 about 20 foot long and then pushing the 2X6 under the ice then cutting a hole in the ice where the 2X6 ends up pulling the snow mobile close to that point and then repeating this process until it can be pulled out from the shore. It worked[;)]

They use long extension ladders down here(northern Ill) to get snowmobiles out. Typically the water is only 4-8 ft. deep. The guy(s) on the sled go in and get the machine on the end of the ladder and a bunch of other guys just lift it up and slide it back on the ice!

Smitty500mag

It's just a homemade winch.

Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

droptop

VIDEOS I'd normally watch in their entirety posted for my convenience, nice.

Horses would be WAY overkill. Looks like the equal of Half a Horse would do the job.

Thanks

LesWVa

Its a Honda.

Pull the plugs, cranked the engine over about 30 seconds, reinstall the plugs and drive it home.

armilite

Lets see how that works with a 3/4 ton Chevy pick up in 20 feet of water.

Sperry

quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
It's just a homemade winch.

Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

They're not teaching this in college anymore. So here's a picture for the young-uns.