Ice can generate some tremendous power, no doubt about it. If harnessed it can be a great tool. It can also do great damage.

I was taught at a very young age how to split large rocks (BFR's) with just ice. The process is simple, just drill a series hole shallow holes in a line where you want the rock to split, then fill each hole with water, drive in a hardwood plug to seal it, and then just wait for a cold snap. The pressure created by the expansion of the water as it freezes will lay it wide open.

I also remember my father relating a story of a narrow escape they had when he was a young man. Our family used to make a little extra money by cutting large blocks of ice from a nearby lake, one known for sudden severe weather changes. Draft horses where used to drag the ice to shore and load them onto trains to TOronto. They used to camp in a big cedar grove on the west shore in a sheltered bay while doing the cutting. The cedar grove offered great shelter form both man & beast. One night a storm blew up suddenly from the east driving the ice pack up into the bay. They were awaoken in the middle of the night to the sound of a wall of ice bulldozing everything in it's path. The got out of there real fast and sought shelter at a nearby farm. The next morning they went back to survey the damage. The entire tree line had been pushed back quite a distance from the shore. Big trees, stumps and all, topsoil, rocks, everthing was moved back like a line of bulldozers had just driven in off the lake. I'm told the ice was piled up the height of a two storey house.

Best of luck.

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