Ice Fishing
Permanent Ice House Design
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Well, I work with steel studs and thats what I used on mine. If you are familiar with how things are built, it is far easier than trying to drive nails. Steel studs just get screwed together. You would frame it the same way, only its a lot lighter than wood and much stronger. Any other questions about steel studs, mail me at: [email protected] and I'll talk about it further.
Or, you could buy mine and Ill just build another one.
Butch says so,
Butch
If you are gonna build one, my choice would be at least 3/8 inch OSB inside and out. I did mine like that last year and it was somewhat heavy (1,400 LBS.), but it certainly wasn't about to blow around on the ice. I've been inside some of those thin walled shacks and its hard to keep them warm, especially for little kids. It's not a problem to get mine up to 70 degrees inside!
Mine was for sale at the end of last season, but I decided to keep it for this season again, but may think about selling it next March.
I have pictures, if you need some ideas.
Butch
I am looking at building a permanent shack this year for the kids to keep warm and out of the wind. Thinking of mounting tires on the sides...making it 8x10 or 8x12. I don't know if that extra 2 feet would make that much difference.Which is lighter...steel barn siding or 1/4" luan plywood? With steel prices this year, I may have to use the plywood. I will have to pull it about 6 miles on backroads, so it has to be fairly well built. It only has to go about 300 yards once on the ice. I plan to pull it with the ATV when on the ice. What thickness of ply do you put for the floor? 1/2" or 3/4"? I would think (depending on the framing) that the 1/2" would work ok. thanks 
4 of us ended up building the 8x10 shack with 2x2 construction. My parents have a place right on Little Sturgeon so we don't have to haul it more than 100 feet and it's on the ice. It turned out a little heavy but we used some old composite plastic material my grandpa used on his old shacks on on the 2"x12" runners so it pulls really nice. We ended up putting a floor in the entire shack with 2-1.5'x2' holes in each corner that lift up when needed. It works out nice with the kids in there because you can close any holes not being used. We just put a small pitched rubber roof on, and the metal barn siding. The metal siding was nice because it was stiff enough you didn't need any plywood or fiber board under it. We also built a custom wood stove that works great. The only problem with the shack is it got completed pretty late in the season and all we caught in it was white fish, no perch. There is always next year.
one lesson my group learned years ago......10x10 built like a house weighs TOO MUCH.
in an ice shack for perchin? on the bay you want small and light. put the shack a mile or two outand if the weather changes fast how do you get it off if you cant drive a truck to it?
2x2 frame and canvas walls,with no floor.
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