I believe there is a Huhot Mongolian grill there. It’s a must stop place. The food is amazing and cheap for what it is.

Should add I live in a small town in St. Louis county

Youbetcha wrote:

Its wild. Heard theres a handful of areas where people who have been retired for awhile are being taxed out of their homes.

That’s about where I’m at except I’m in my late 30’s and have a good paying job. I’d guess in a couple more years I won’t be able to afford my house anymore. My insurance and taxes are escrowed into my payment. Insurance has stayed pretty close to the same as long as we’ve had the house but the taxes are absolutely insane. My house payment has well over doubled since I bought my house in 2010 because of the taxes. Bought the house for $125k and they now value it at $298k. This is a 1/2 acre lot in town. Paying more for that than most people do on a popular lake. It’s disgusting throwing money away like that. There’s no way my house is worth what they say it is and if anyone offered me even close to what they say it is I’d be gone tomorrow.

I’ve never rented a house because we have our own but we had a seasonal pass out of the same small resort for many years and became very close friends with some of the ice guides there and I got to spend quite a bit of time with them. Some of the things that come to mind right away just from hanging out with those guys and seeing what goes on is bring line and complete set ups for rattle reels. Most of those sleeper houses have rattle reels but the line has usually been on there for years if there’s any line at all. Depending on your arrangements, garbage bags and lots of them depending on if it’s an indoor or outdoor bathroom set up. Games and cards etc. to pass time after dark or during slow times. A small white board with some dry erase markers to keep track of fish caught can make for some good friendly competition especially if there’s a friendly wager on the line. Not sure what kind of house your renting but lots of them have the direct vent heaters that make things toasty on top bunks so pack some light sleeping bags or bedding. Flashlights are nice for getting up at night for bathroom breaks or to see which rattle reel is going without waking up everyone else. If there’s certain pots or pans you like you might want to bring them because lots of times the ones in those houses are trashed. If you can tell us what kind of house it is you’ll be staying in I can give you some more ideas/hacks. Lastly don’t forget about those ice guides. I have no idea if tipping is a thing with them or not, we never talk about that stuff when we are together but I do know a beer or a drink goes a long ways when they come around in the evening to do their checks or even better yet they always love some kind of homemade goodies or treats.

That’s the one I ended up getting. It was like $20. Same one that’s in my fish house. I’ll have to get the temperature swing thing dialed in a little bit it works good

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure it was the thermostat and not something else. I’ll pick one up after work. If I kill the power to the furnace, that should stop the power to the thermostat too correct?

dhpricco wrote:

Looking to rent a sleeper house with the family mid January for a weekend. I have been looking through some old threads for ideas on good rentals, but am open to more if people have any good ones they can suggest. Would be bringing the wife and the two oldest kids. I am pretty open to anything within about a 4-5 hr drive. We live in the south metro for reference. Couple I have sent emails to already are below. Does anyone know of any sleeper rentals on Vermilion?

Leech Lake Fishing House Rentals
Up North Fish House Rentals
High Banks Resort

Adam and Dennis have Ice Castles on Lake Vermilion and those guys are top notch. Their business is called Lake vermilion Ice Fishing. We had a season pass for their ice road last year and I’ve never seen anything like the service and hospitality they offer. I’d highly suggest checking them out, you would not be disappointed. There’s also several bars/restaurants in the area incase you need a change of scenery for a bit or want to grab something to eat.

As long as it doesn’t have a Yamaha on the back you should be able to play around with prop pitch and find a happy medium. As said above vent holes do nothing for a 4 stroke motor. If it does for some reason have a Yamaha on the back your just out of luck. Just accept you have an anchor bolted to the back of the boat.

Must be low on sheep fluid.

I’ve never understood why people are so against wearing helmets on atv’s. For the price of one of those fancy hats you could get a cheap helmet that would keep you 10 times warmer. Most people would never hop on a snowmobile without a helmet, I just don’t get why it’s not the same with atv’s. It can’t hardly be to look cool if you have to bundle up in some huge hat that costs a ridiculous amount and put goggles on.

Put a helmet on. There’s nothing colder than riding a wheeler when it’s cold out.

Don Carlisle wrote:

Where is the ice house? Some of them limit switches you can reset. If the furnace just blows cold air thats a fail safe built into the circut board in case of a malfuction in the gas valve stuck or limit switches poped. You’ll need a volt meter and a wiring diagram and start checking power. The video that fishing star posted is a good starting point…

It’s at our shack up near Orr. The furnace blows zero air. It doesn’t even turn on.

Thanks for the ideas guys. I’ll be back at the shack this weekend and will bring a multimeter and do some more searching. It seems like everything else works fine but the furnace. I’ll just have to dive in and investigate some more. I want to say all the 12 volt stuff works but I’m not sure how all that works with the inverter because it was plugged into 110 all weekend. Would the 12 volt stuff still work if it was plugged in? For some reason in one of my past Ice castles I remember popping a fuse right by the battery and that killed everything even when it was plugged in.

orve4 wrote:

I better be careful then I have a 2012 dodge Ram 1500 with 200,000 thousands miles and have had little trouble with it. I purchased a Ice castle three years ago and have had no problems with that.

It’s a pretty well known fact that Ice Castle turns out a banged together low quality fish house. Sure every brand can crank out a Lemmon once in a while but it’s more common than not with Ice castles. Many of my friends had issues with theirs before the even got to use them the first time. I got this house one year old in 2019 and it is pretty much completely shot. They are just cheaply made like lots of the others but they are the better of the cheap houses. This is my third one and I just consider them a disposable item. We stay in it 4-5 nights a week in the winter and use it a little in the fall during hunting season so we use it quite a bit.

John Rasmussen wrote:

For the record my RAM pulls my Castle just fine, no bumper dragging.

Most common thing is either the limit switch or the ignitor. Both are replaceable fairly easy. The ignitor is on the left once you open up the panel and the limit switch is on the right. Both parts and a thermostat are available on the shelf at Unclaimed Freight or other RV places. They don’t make the 30K model anymore but plenty of parts around also available online. You should hear the ignitor click and come on. Make sure its not a propane issue also.

Edit: No other fuses that I am aware of at the unit itself.

Do you happen to know if either one of those would stop the furnace from attempting to start? When it’s operating normally the thermostat calls for heat, the fan turns on and then the ignitor lights. The furnace doesn’t even turn on.

Are there fuses on the furnace itself? I checked the ones in the box under the table and those were good. I haven’t had a chance to look at the furnace itself yet. That thing is tucked in there pretty good and will take a little doing to get at.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>walleyesforme wrote:</div>
The thermostat clicks like it’s calling for heat but nothing happens.

What is the brand of this furnace? When you say it clicks, is the sequence that the fan comes on and then there is a click-click-click-click noise, but no ignition?

95% of the issues with RV furnaces involve either the fuses/breakers, the 2 safety limit switches, the ignitor, or the flame sensor.

I’ve been through so many issues with my camper furnace that I literally carry all of the above as spare parts.

It’s a suburban furnace. 30k btu. If you turn the thermostat to heat the thermostat itself makes a click like it usually does but the furnace does absolutely nothing.

Thanks. That’s good info there.

I’ll have to rip that thing out of there and start playing around with it. I was just looking online and I didn’t realize that those furnaces are actually fairly inexpensive. It’s a 2018 so parts should be available.

Bearcat89 wrote:

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They are absolute garbage your right there. If a RAM was even capable of pulling one they could go right off a cliff together and get rid of two piles of $hit at once.

Lol, I’m just playing around. Hopefully you get your problem fixed.

It’s all good haha. Kinda figured I had that coming.

They are absolute garbage your right there. If a RAM was even capable of pulling one they could go right off a cliff together and get rid of two piles of $hit at once.

PmB wrote:

Is this about dodge ram owners?

Must be a long drive from the cities with the bumper dragging on the ground from the hub house and auger in the box.

rumriverrunner wrote:

Thank you for all info, trucks MSRP are still extremely high but I’ve been looking at all brands and they all seem to have 8k-12k off. Toyota doesn’t take much off MSRP but Ford and Ram are giving deals off msrp. Ford is anywhere from 1.9 to 2.9 percent and Dodge is 4.9 on new vehicles….GMC is 0 for 36 months, that’s a heavty payment on a 60k truck. Toyota is 2.9, they are asking 63K for a Tundra Turbo Crew. Ford Platinums must be ordered do to inventory levels, a few nice dodges out there but I have one now and was never really impressed with it.

Thank you for giving an honest opinion and review. That is something that lots of people struggle with when they own a product that isn’t all that they thought it would be. I’m not sure if it’s them trying to convince themselves they didn’t screw up making the purchase or what it is.

I shot a doe this morning with a .308, 180 grain federal blue box. They shoot the best of anything I’ve shot out of that gun but that being said it’s a hunting rifle so it’s not exactly a tack driver, Winchester model 70 featherweight. Bullet performed very well and left a nice hole in the top of the heart. Nice neat hole going in and out. It walked out on a trail at about 150 yards and layed down. I waited and made sure it had no fawns and shot and it never got up. Several years ago I had a box of federal fusions for the same gun and they didn’t seem to perform very well for me. They did really weird things inside the animal. I think that gun shot 5 deer that year and not one bullet went straight through. A couple hit right in the sweet spot and came out the neck, one was hit in the front shoulder and it came out the top of the head and one was a was out there, 378 yards and it hit perfectly and the bullet barely went inside the body cavity and lodged in the spine by the hind quarters. I was able to recover that bullet and it never even began to open up. It looked like it did in the box minus the rifling marks. People swear by them but it’s a pass for me.

I don’t know where to find those kinds of numbers but it’s pretty obvious just looking around and at dealers lots that the sheep brand is all but done for. Jacking up the prices was a last ditch effort to save the brand but it ended up being one of the final nails in the coffin. Maybe they will run a buy one get one free sale like Kia used to for you guys that like them. They have to get rid of all those trucks sitting on the lots somehow.

KPE wrote:

Sounds like RAM should have spent less money on the stickers and secret compartments and invested more in driver comfort. I suppose a comfortable seat doesn’t make everyone look at you for how ridiculous your truck looks though. Kind of like that South Park episode with the bikers.

Idk man, in the current era my buddy has a 2019 Laramie 1500 and I just test drove a 2024 ram 2500 the other day, and despite trim level differences both had the most comfortable driver seats of all the current brand offerings, in my opinion anyway.

I think they figured out interior comfort pretty well since that 2012 model year.
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Interesting. That must be why they jacked the price up on them so much. I just assumed it was the ol real estate trick. If you can’t sell garbage for cheap, try doubling the price and see if people think it’s actually worth something. Unfortunately for RAM that trick didn’t work and they still can’t move their trucks. Hopefully the OP doesn’t go this route. A hurtin back and a severe case of buyers remorse would be a terrible combination.

walleyesforme wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
Might have to check those out. I don’t want to blow things all apart and I haven’t lost one I’ve shot I’ve just been surprised I expected it to be something out of a Charles Bronson movie and it’s not.

You’d love how the interlocks perform, they are just right. I was handed down the gun from my dad when he gave up hunting and he bought it when he was somewhat young. He reloaded enough ammo for it for it to last me forever and my kid too and probably beyond that. It’s to nice in the shack to run outside now but I know I have a box of those reloads with the recipe written on the box in my truck. I’ll get a picture of it tomorrow.

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weedis wrote:

My buddy hand loads and lucky enough he has the dies for 300wsm, which is hard enough ammo to find. He loaded me 180gr accubonds and couldn’t be happier so far. Accurate and lethal, two deer this year went a total of about a yard. A lot cheaper too. When I could get ammo regularly, I did like the fusions, same gun shot those well.

I have a Ruger in 300 WSM and have only shot one deer with it and that was with core lokts and the performance of those was absolutely terrible. It got the job done but left a hole the size of a basketball in it. After talking to some friends that have guns in that caliber they said those bullets just aren’t built for that kind of power. Just an FYI for anyone else out there that’s looking at different options.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Might have to check those out. I don’t want to blow things all apart and I haven’t lost one I’ve shot I’ve just been surprised I expected it to be something out of a Charles Bronson movie and it’s not.

You’d love how the interlocks perform, they are just right. I was handed down the gun from my dad when he gave up hunting and he bought it when he was somewhat young. He reloaded enough ammo for it for it to last me forever and my kid too and probably beyond that. It’s to nice in the shack to run outside now but I know I have a box of those reloads with the recipe written on the box in my truck. I’ll get a picture of it tomorrow.

I have an old Remington model 700 in 7mm magnum and that gun absolutely loves 154 grain Hornady Interlocks. It shoots them crazy good and the performance on deer is perfect. Does enough damage to make it deadly but not so much to scramble everything in front of the diaphragm. It’s old and ugly but my go to gun/load.