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Oh boy. Hi, I'm Tim Carter from askthebuilder.com. I don’t know if you can tell but I am standing on the edge of Lake Wanaque right at the shore line. I'm kind of standing on some ice I have this huge phobia of being out on ice so I keep thinking that I'm going to fall though in ground.
A good reason a lot of people die is your doing it. So I want to show you a little bit about eye safety and some things I learn on the internet. What I do discover is that—oh, wait a minute I got to tell you it’s March 13th it’s a Friday so Friday the 13th am I crazy or what. And also this is some of the most dangerous time to be out on the ice. March is the transition month and the weather is changing or the ice thickness is changing rapidly.
So I'm going to out on the eyes to where I know what the water deep is. I know it safe it will not be over my head so even I do fall through I'm going to be okay, I hope, so I'm hoping that the videographers is going to save and we’re going to find out. So let’s go—oh, great. So let’s go out right now and try to check to see how thick the size is.
One thing I want to let you know is I went to a website I did some research state of Minnesota got a great website that I've found that talks about the ice thickness. And one of the things is that they said is if it four inches think clear ice, nice black ice, that’s more than enough thickness for you to walk on safely. You need to check that yourself to make sure you feel comfortable. And as the ice thickness goes up even up to 12v inches it will support the weight of a very large pickup truck.
So right here I know that the water deep is about three feet high, so let's try to drill right through here to see how thick this ice is. This particular tool I have nice cordless drill it’s got a 16 inch long ship arbitrary which is perfect that’s got a nice drill tip here nice and sharp it will cut right through the ices. Let see how fit the ice is to see if it safe to be on right now.
Wow! Holy molly, check this out. So I brought my handy dandy tape measure. So look at this. The distance to the top of those points right here is five inches from the top of the ices and I already know that link of that be to that point so far the ice is ten inches thick. Ten inches right here so pretty safe to stand. I'm feeling pretty comfortable but remember if I was to go out further the thickness can change without any warning, you know you have to check it all the time so if you're going to get out on the ice bring your cordless drill, bring your measuring tape or really good agro bit and be safe. Make sure you do all of the thing that you need to do to be safe have the right equipment with you in case you do fall through.
I'm Tim Carter for Askthebuilder.com.
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