Alumalite vs Ice Trek skid house

[Lungdeflator]

Those are some sweet shacks. Look alot nicer than the regular aluma lite. No pics of the inside, but I can take some.

There is enough room on the trailer behind the house to put 2 ATVs or 2 sleds. The problem with a full ramp is the V front. The middle ski sticks out 2 ft in front of the others. Notice the middle ramp in the pic is shorter than the other 2. And if there isn't a middle ramp, the middle ski catches on the edge of the trailer.

 

[MarbleEyez]

Those houses would be great in theory for Lake Winnipeg, but when you get ice conditions like last year and even this year if you go out deep, you're going to beat the hell out of it. Everything will have to be strapped down and secured in the house which isn't that big of a deal. With the price tag on those shacks, I would rather spend the extra money and get a permanent house. Then a person could get dual purpose out of it. Ice shack in the winter, hunting shack in the fall.

For me, the only ice fishing I've been doing in the past 5 years has been a few annual trips up to Lake Winnipeg. The wife has brought it up to me several times "Why don't you fish around here anymore??". It's hard fishing around here when you can make a few trips up north and blow everything else out of the water, size wise, in one morning bite...

 

[wby257]

Those are some sweet shacks. Look alot nicer than the regular aluma lite. No pics of the inside, but I can take some.

There is enough room on the trailer behind the house to put 2 ATVs or 2 sleds. The problem with a full ramp is the V front. The middle ski sticks out 2 ft in front of the others. Notice the middle ramp in the pic is shorter than the other 2. And if there isn't a middle ramp, the middle ski catches on the edge of the trailer.

All you would need is two guides in the middle for the middle ski to ride in between them. It cant slide either way. It me it would be a easy fix. And very few headaches.

 

[NDSportsman]

Don't these skid houses become a pain to move around with a foot or more of snow on the ice? I'd think they would start pushing snow.

 

[Lungdeflator]

WBY257, I guess I can't picture what you mean with the guides in the middle of a ramp. A "full" size ramp would still have to be 2 piece to allow for the middle ski to not hit first. I don't want to put all the weight on the middle ski when loading up either.

I haven't had mine out in the deep snow yet so I can't comment on that. Originally, the snow plowing problem was a hang up for me when I was going back and forth between this and wheelhouse. But thinking about it, at least in ND and bigger lakes like LOTW (main body away from islands) and Winnipeg, I think it is rare to have 12" or more of loose snow on lakes. Seems that even a year like last year when we had a bunch of snow, the wind would come up and just make deeper drifts, then the drifts would turn hard and anything with tracks or skis would stay on top.

Debate between skid or wheelhouse, I considered both for a long time. The flexibility of the skid house is what sold me on it. Pulling it with a tracked ATV and I can fish almost anywhere, any time. I don't have to wait for thicker ice for a wheelhouse. Snow/drifts that keeps others off the lakes should not be a problem. And I can still use it as a "camper" if I wanted to. I have a step stool that I can use to get up into in on the trailer. I plan on pulling it up to Clearwater lake in MB at the end of March and fishing the north end of the lake, about a 10 mile trip on the ice. Probably wouldn't do that with a wheelhouse.

 

[Jigaman]

http://hotspotoutdoors.com/forums/t...ouse-need-conversation-on-skid-house-options/

This guy pulls a 6x12 all over LOW in Ontario with his snowmobile with no issues. That part of the lake gets quite a bit of snow and he says that big house floats really well. He has some cool pics of his setup.

 

[riverview]

my 6x10 vee front floats up on snow very well. I have pulled it through 3 feet of powder and it didn't plow at all.

 

[huffranger]

6" wide it would be hard to escape Dirty Mike's nervous farts, I think I might need a 8' wide set up.