Creating the perfect portable ice hut.

Big companies make portable plastic ice huts for hundreds of dollars and they really don't seem worth it to me. What I've been seeing more and more of is homemade light frame ice huts that can be dragged onto the ice on snow machines and ATVs. This is a very cool alternative to a full fledged ice hut that needs a truck or car to take it onto the ice, posing more risk to eager ice fisherman who take their ice huts out onto what seems like fine ice, only to hit a warm and wet spell and lose their ice hut or risk going onto soft ice with a vehicle to retrieve said ice hut before it sinks. With an alternative like this, you can still stay sheltered from the elements and easily remove the hut, should such a scenario arise, like this year where I live. Luckily, the cold weather returned before people started losing their huts, but with a lighter hut, you could go out to retrieve it with a small light vehicle like a snow machine or ATV and get your hut off the ice before you lose it, with far less risk than a full hut and a truck. If you want to, you could also move it to different locations much easier than a full hut. Something to think about.