At a shanty town on a reservoir the other day, I saw this plastic tank that seems to be put to a new use as a ice fishing shack, pretty ingenious!


A minute or so after I took this picture I realized I had a dirty windshield, one upper corner had some kind of thin glop on it that wasn't there before. My first thought was a big bug that got smeared, then I remembered it was winter. Then I remembered the flock of launching ducks I had flown through a couple of minutes earlier. I was low, and was into them before we both knew it, I immediately pulled a notch of flaps and slowed down to 40+ mph to reduce our closure rate and we got it all sorted out. Another advantage to having a slow flying airplane I guess? I think one duck got excited and let fly, I'm not sure what duck crap looks like but pretty sure this wasn't it, more like duck urine. Though not the first time I've gotten into close proximity with various water fowl, this was some kind of first for me

What do you think the dimensions of that tank are? probably not as big as the picture makes it look. It is an interesting idea.

Steve

My friends grandfather in West Virginia had a 100 barrel oil tank on his property that had shooting ports in it. They called it the "Turkey Shack". He would hunt turkeys out of it in the spring and fall. We never much cared for it, even though it kept you dry, you would go deaf for three days if you were dumb enough to shoot from inside it. (It was a steel tank)

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There is a 5 gallon bucket sitting on the edge of it's shadow and a 4 wheeler not far away for reference. I bet 1500 to 2000 gallons.

Looks more like a 8-10,000 gal tank to me

I was going to say 2 or 3,000, based on what I've worked on when doing solar water pumping jobs. Usually 1000 g for that and this was for sure bigger. It was a big one anyway, almost too big for a ice shack, but hey they had it lying around, so the price was right!