Help with ice anchors

  • mrpike1973
    Posts: 1507
    January 28, 2021 at 9:56 am #2010065

    I have a mixture of Otter and Eskimo ice anchors they look the same to me. I have the tool for putting them in with a drill for some reason this year only a few work good the tips look Ok to me. I noticed there is a cut down the threads on some of them if I was to regrind this down to the tip would it help? Or was thinking of just getting some decking bolts with the torx heads? Thanks

    FishBlood&RiverMud
    Prescott
    Posts: 6687
    January 28, 2021 at 10:35 am #2010077

    I used to always bring a drill with, and drill a pilot hole, then spin them in by hand.

    I haven’t used an ice anchor in over 5 years.
    Brought a house to LOTW to Poop in this weekend and figured, i’ll bring one less thing and leave the drill at home…
    Well, i couldn’t spin one of them in the ice by hand so poop in the house it was…
    I suppose that’s why i bought the drill some 10 years ago(and since forgot).

    These were the good eskimo anchors too. They wear out i suppose. I do recall the colder the ice, harder to start.

    Anyway, that always worked good for me. $29 drill from walmart and 3/8″ bit (I think). Drill still works, i use it to drill out powder-coated jig eyelets.

    TOM
    Posts: 220
    January 28, 2021 at 12:12 pm #2010105

    Yep, bring a drill and bit, make a pilot hole and in she goes.

    Coletrain27
    Posts: 4790
    January 28, 2021 at 12:24 pm #2010119

    A small drill and one of these make a huge difference and go right in

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    mrpike1973
    Posts: 1507
    January 28, 2021 at 12:35 pm #2010126

    Yep I do have the ice anchor tool but it just does not go in good. Pilot hole sounds like a good idea

    3Rivers
    Posts: 1110
    January 28, 2021 at 12:55 pm #2010131

    The tips dull or break easily on those. Either resharpen to a point or toss em.

    Ideally they would make them with a cutting point like a drill bit or a self tapping screw.

    Huntindave
    Shell Rock Iowa
    Posts: 3128
    January 28, 2021 at 1:34 pm #2010136

    All ice anchors are not equal. Some have a long thin taper, start easy but can bend. Others have more body in the thread and a shorter taper, hold up well but don’t always start well and can chip out the ice.

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    iceager01
    Redwood County/Scott County
    Posts: 237
    January 29, 2021 at 1:53 pm #2010428

    They were only 20.00 back then and stainless steel, twisted in with little effort, I bought them at an Ice Show….

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