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LakeSuperiorView

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5. Well, not actually frozen solid...
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 09:40 PM
Jan 2019

It would be vastly more difficult to remove ice from a lake that was frozen solid. By floating the slabs of ice to a ramp, it is much easier to move. They used logging saws to saw the ice sheet into slabs. The standard joke was that the new guy got the end of the saw that was underwater.

And also any lake shallow enough to freeze solid would have undesirable particulates from the lake bottom embedded in the ice.

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