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Contest to build world's biggest ice carousel | Star Tribune
The prize: bragging rights for who can create the world's biggest ice carousel. Ice carousels are giant lazy susans, floating circular disks cut by ... View Full Story/Gallery [Archived]
Contest to build world's biggest ice carousel | Star Tribune
The prize: bragging rights for who can create the world's biggest ice carousel. Ice carousels are giant lazy susans, floating circular disks cut by ... View Full Story/Gallery [Archived]
The latest battle in a cold war involving Minnesota, Maine and Finland will be fought this weekend in Little Falls. The prize: bragging rights for who can create the world's biggest ice carousel. Ice carousels are giant lazy susans, floating circular disks cut by chainsaws on frozen lakes and propelled into a leisurely rotation by a trolling or outboard motor inserted into a hole in the ice. It's caught on in recent years as a form or frozen fun in Minnesota and other northern areas. - StarTribune
Gallery Photos By David Joles | JANUARY 11, 2019 — 10:00PM
1/11 - The latest battle in a cold war involving Minnesota, Maine and Finland will be fought this weekend in Little Falls. The prize: bragging rights for who can create the world's biggest ice carousel.
2/11 - Chuck Zwilling and his crew worked on cutting the ice for their giant floating ice carousel -- more than 130 meters across -- on Green Prairie Fish Lake, using a custom rig that combines tracks from a snowblower and two chainsaws Thursday.
3/11 - Mike Ruegemer , cuts a channel in the ice with a specially rigged chainsaw for the ice carousel as other workers remove ice chunks from the lake.
4/11 - Aside from the ice carousel visitors to the I.C.E. Fest can take in an igloo.
5/11 - Mike Ruegemer , left, cuts a channel in the ice with a specially rigged chainsaw for the ice carousel as other workers remove ice chunks from the lake.
6/11 - Mike Ruegemer , cuts a channel in the ice with a specially rigged chainsaw for the ice carousel as other workers remove ice chunks from the lake.
7/11 - Janne Käpylehto [Finland], and Becca Ruegemer remove ice chunks cut from the lake to create the channel for the ice carousel to turn.
8/11 - Workers remove ice chunks cut from the lake to create the channel for the ice carousel to turn.
9/11 - Ice chunks cut from the lake to create the channel for the ice carousel to turn are stacked with a snowman looming in the rear.
10/11 - Janne Käpylehto, an author, inventor and energy specialist based in Helsinki, Finland, removes ice chunks cut from the lake to create the channel for the ice carousel to turn.
11/11 - Mike Ruegemer , cuts a channel in the ice with a specially rigged chainsaw that combines tracks from a snowblower and two chainsaws.
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