Spring is in the air???

[gornoman]

Loaded up and ready for the season's activities. Winter mods complete:
New HD front springs
Brake lights
Wiring conduit installed
We get to the campground @ 10:30 Saturday morning to find our front yard and parking pad covered in snow.
Took a ride around the campground in the cart. Had to drive through a few small leftover drifts, but nothing worth showing. The lakes however were very surprising!

That last shot shows a lakefront site with a boat on a trailer in the front yard. If the water gets any higher, it might launch itself!

The campground opens this coming Friday. We fully expect the snow to still be there, and the ice to still be on the lakes. We are taking our winter coats to our summer place! WTH?!?!?!

 

[JRay]

Too early my man. Winter hangs on in the north country. I've been itching to go myself, but i know it is still dam cold up there.

 

[gornoman]

Winter has a death grip on southern Wisconsin! I couldn't even have a fire in my pit because it was full of ice! We can't rake the leaves until all the snow melts! What are we supposed to do all next weekend, sit around and drink?

Hey, wait a minute.....

 

[JRay]

I'l buy. what else you going to do when its cold, we go to the friday night fish frys and the local saloons till it warms up. We are on Houghton Lake, biggest inland lake in Mi. Still snow on the roofs up there. Last saturday in april all the fishing opens up again, should be warm by then buttt you never know. Think i will go early and clean up the yard, oh yeh fish frys and saloons too.

 

[HotRodCarts]

Nice pics Gorno. It doesn't look to bad considering a couple weeks ago they got 12+ inches of snow out that way.

 

[COPB]

It won't be long for you now. Has that lake got a dam on it? Does the water ever get very low? What is the average lot rental inland but close to the lake?

 

[gornoman]

COPB,

All 3 lakes are spring-fed, no inlets, no outlets. The levels are regulated by the winter snowpack as well as the local underground aquifer. Last year all the docks were almost drydocks as the local farmers pumped so much water from the ground.
Seasonal site cost is $2353 for 6 months. They pay for electric, water, garbage pickup and fire protection. We pay for propane, firewood, and liquor. Lakefront sites run about $500 more. We are 2 sites from a lake.

 

[COPB]

That's not a bad price. It looks like you do not have your unit at your site. What I take to be your site. Do you have to move it every winter? Do they have a winter storage lot or do you have to find someplace to winter it?

 

[gornoman]

By unit do you mean our housing or the cart?

The housing is a 40ft. Park model with 3 bumpouts. It stays put. You can see it behind the Jeep in the second pic.

The cart came home this winter for mods. Normally is tays up north for the winter, well protected and very secure.

 

[COPB]

You can lease seasonal and keep your park model there the other 6 months too? That's pretty nice.

 

[BadToTheBone]

Nice pics. Hopefully there is no rain in the forecast

 

[JRay]

Being back off the water a little is not all bad in times of how highs the water mama, according to Johnny Cash.

 

[HotRodCarts]

How high's the water, mama?
Five feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Five feet high and risin'

 

[JRay]

HRC,s smokin them left handed ciggies again.

 

[JRay]

Gorno, whats up with the heavy duty front spring? that thing is going to ride like a lumber wagon. Unless you have something to weight it down.

 

[gornoman]

I've had HD springs on all corners for a while now. I had to put new ones on the front because of an airborne adventure with a landscape timber @ 25+mph. Bent the passenger spring, just figured I would replace both. Used a different supplier this time and didn't want a leaning cart because of differing springs.
Yes it rides stiff, but it handles great. Just like a Corvette!

 

[JRay]

Is a wonderful product. Bent up some stuff myself.

 

[gornoman]

I must admit, alchohol WAS a factor!

 

[COPB]

Well, you have some privacy when you are not on the water. On the water, everyone in camp walks through your front yard a few times each summer.

 

[mangoridge]

Well, here it is April 12th, dang I need to get the cart out to the lake and play. The wife was in the hospital for a week with pnumonia in her right lung,,,,shes home gaining her strenght back now. We'll see how quiet it is on the board this weekend, or at least until Sunday night when people get back. The trees are budding out. (ha ha I said bud) That "moderator" thread will always hang in my head.