The Ice Auger Machine, set up with snowmobile skis. 2 / 3. Adam Ford with his prototype. 3 / 3. The auger, along with the rest of the user's gear, is towed behind in a sled.

Where he can then join Ford on the bay, with an ice auger machine of course. “I am not walking out on the bay anymore, those days are long gone,” says Ford with a smile.

The Ice Auger Machine was born one night during a frightening walk across Green Bay – not the Wisconsin city, but the large body of water to the north of it. It was winter and Adam Ford had been ...

Figure 1. The ice cutting auger, drive train with gears, and the gear motor are all connected. This article is part two of a two-part series on ice flake machine troubleshooting. The last article, ...

This is why the DCD991P2 20V Max XR Cordless Brushless 3-Speed ½-inch Drill Driver is a popular model among ice fishers, and Acme Tools even previously sold it in a set with an 8.5-inch K-Drill ...

The conditioner is at the back of the machine. A blade shaves the ice, augers push the cut snow to the center and then up to a dump tank. That's the large rectangular shape in front of the driver ...

Winter fishing is punctuated by the short, high-pitched roar of an auger, growling its way through ice, looking for fish. ... Augers are key to icefishing. 20y Tom Behrens ...