The Ford Barn

rich40701 · 03-08-2025, 11:33 AM

A dear friend now passed had a hilarious story about ice fishing. He lived for a time during his youth in Michigan. He and a friend one day strapped an OS Max model engine on a homemade ice racer of a thing and took it out on the frozen lake during winter to run it. They somehow attached it to a pivot in the ice with a long string so it would run in a circle. At some point either the string broke or the pivot came loose and a screaming model engine turning around 30,000 rpm went running out of control across the lake and ended up flying straight into the tent of some poor unsuspecting fisherman. To his dying day he laughed uncontrollably about the screaming and cussing from the fisherman. lol

03-08-2025, 11:33 AM	#9
rich40701 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2022 Location: Corbin, KY Posts: 121	Re: Ice fishing A dear friend now passed had a hilarious story about ice fishing. He lived for a time during his youth in Michigan. He and a friend one day strapped an OS Max model engine on a homemade ice racer of a thing and took it out on the frozen lake during winter to run it. They somehow attached it to a pivot in the ice with a long string so it would run in a circle. At some point either the string broke or the pivot came loose and a screaming model engine turning around 30,000 rpm went running out of control across the lake and ended up flying straight into the tent of some poor unsuspecting fisherman. To his dying day he laughed uncontrollably about the screaming and cussing from the fisherman. lol