Damn it anyway lol

Took the boys to a new lake about a half hour away. I’ve never been to it before, but had plans to hit the deepest hole first in 18′ with the snowmobile and the Otter.

When we got there, there were a handful of perms right in the hole (as I expected).

We set up the Otter in the community spot and started drilling holes.

The first two went great and I started the third. In the first second something wasn’t right and the auger instantly stopped shaving ice.

I looked at the blades and they were all chewed up with a burl facing up.

I looked at where I started the hole and I drilled right into a melted in damn truck booger (sand/salt chunk)

Should have went and tried some virgin ice

Of course my backup auger was safe and sound at home…I ran back to the truck and found what I could to make a half assed attempt at sharpening them. I pulled the blades off and stropped the edges with the teeth of a needle nose, but as you could imagine it didn’t make it any better

The kids got to fish and Dad had a couple beers

ouch!!

That FN sucks.
If thats the PB i hope you can find blades close to you.I would think MG would have them.
I had to order through the company.

I had brand new striker master blades on my lite flight 8 at the beginning of the year . I’ve chewed probably 100 river ice holes and the blades are not doing great . You can visually see all the imperfections in the cutting edge . Anyone ever find a way to get them back right ? 50 bucks a year is getting annoying for blades but I guess if that’s the game that’s the game .

Drilled some holes on the st croix once. After 4 my blades looked like I took a hatchet to them from the sand stuck in the ice. Then I found out there was a foot of slush under the ice!

Dang. Very sucky! I’ve done that exact thing once. I also hit a short length of chain one time. Maybe a safety chain off the tongue of a fishhouse. Both times sucked and trashed the blades. But each time I had already drilled a few holes, so I had something to fish in.

Light Flight rocks for clean ice. Unfortunately here on the river we don’t always have clean ice.

I’ve got an old original K drill that I hung on to as a backup/spare. It’s probably 10 years old and I never once sent the blades in to be sharpened. The Light Flight I have is on year 3 and its second set of blades

buckybadger wrote:

Light Flight rocks for clean ice. Unfortunately here on the river we don’t always have clean ice.

I’ve got an old original K drill that I hung on to as a backup/spare. It’s probably 10 years old and I never once sent the blades in to be sharpened. The Light Flight I have is on year 3 and its second set of blades

Ha glad I’m not the only one . I actually bought new drill batteries this week cause I thought my batteries were too old . Dang near buy a k drill for all the blades you’ll have to buy … at least they sharpen them for free allegedly .

Can confirm free sharpening on kdrill blades. Just need to pay postage. They’ll do it until the blades are worn then you have to replace. Chippers last longer as most on here would agree. Better in that dirty ice.