10-11-2008, 06:36 PM
Hi davetclown, readers, unfortunately I have not had opportunity to read all your wonderful tips yet and I am sure this will probably be there, but if overlooked somehow, for your day off posting:
Bring a common kitchen metal soup ladle with you ; Makes the perfect tool to remove little chunks of snow and ice and keeping your nice hole clean if it is icing over on ya of course, but by design, dip deeper and smaller holes better than the standard tackle shop variety as depicted in the pic. as they are more a flat topped cup when held straight up and down, and typically stouter if you have been neglecting a hole and it needs a little quick punching out.
I have a hole drilled in the bottom of mine also to drain just the water as I'm dipping, Most of my holes are jabbed as apposed to drilled as well and the standard dipper is designed to pull material up the walls of a nicely augered hole, they can be a pain when it's jagged.
Heck, they can't serve soup until you get home with it either so wont be missin' out on anything good that way. Gonna get the best of the soup pot too before ya plug that hole and pass it around ! [laugh] BFS, always multi-tasking !!
And if you already have that one, takes repetition for me to learn anything new, no harm seein' it twice eh? If it is a repeat, let me know and I'll throw another log on the fire and see if I can't come up with something else to help ya out with that well-deserved day off.
BFS
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Bring a common kitchen metal soup ladle with you ; Makes the perfect tool to remove little chunks of snow and ice and keeping your nice hole clean if it is icing over on ya of course, but by design, dip deeper and smaller holes better than the standard tackle shop variety as depicted in the pic. as they are more a flat topped cup when held straight up and down, and typically stouter if you have been neglecting a hole and it needs a little quick punching out.
I have a hole drilled in the bottom of mine also to drain just the water as I'm dipping, Most of my holes are jabbed as apposed to drilled as well and the standard dipper is designed to pull material up the walls of a nicely augered hole, they can be a pain when it's jagged.
Heck, they can't serve soup until you get home with it either so wont be missin' out on anything good that way. Gonna get the best of the soup pot too before ya plug that hole and pass it around ! [laugh] BFS, always multi-tasking !!
And if you already have that one, takes repetition for me to learn anything new, no harm seein' it twice eh? If it is a repeat, let me know and I'll throw another log on the fire and see if I can't come up with something else to help ya out with that well-deserved day off.
BFS
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