Let's see what it looks like today! :)

Looks real nice up there :cool: Gotta get up there to see that area.

Prolly a bit "whiter" now Nort ;)

NJ , sits in the driveway :mad:

Wish I was in Fla !!! :cool:

Its back in there somewhere!

There are 4 Bubblers running 24/7 till March or this would be garbage pushed up on the lawn.

i have a 70 foot dock and run one or two bubblers most of the winter

Amazing what Ice does

What exactly is a bubbler and how does it work? Air bubbles? Hot/warm air.......or just moves the water, or both?

Bubblers is actually a mis-nomer, other than thats what everyone calls them.

In actual fact they are a 20 amp waterproof electric motor with a cage on one end protecting a propeller.

Picture a paint can with an old fashioned wire goalie mask attached to one end with a 2 blade 6 inch dia, propeller inside the cage.

The principle is A moving the water so it doesn't freeze and B drawing the warmer water off the bottom to the surface to help.

They are mounted on 6 ft. poles attached to the dock with a slight angle upward.

I could probably get away with shutting the odd one off when its sunny and near freezing but I don't want to risk having ice forming around piles and then not being able to get rid of it.

I'll post pic later showing how much area stays open now that lake is completely frozen over.

that seems more fun then snow!!:(:ernaehrung004:

So if it is -20 C or so, and you lose power, how long before the dock is trashed?