Did you know that Manke Enterprises sharpens blades for lawn mowers and chain saws?
We do!
Just drop off your lawnmower or chainsaw blades at our service counter, and we’ll have them sharpened and ready for you the next business day. It’s just that simple.
It’s August, and that means it’s time to start thinking about removing your boat lift and dock for the season.
Whether you want to remove your lift and dock right after Labor Day, or leave them in the lake until late in the fall, now is still the time to call.
We’ll be adding a new service this year. Now, as we remove your lakeshore equipment, our crews will be giving it a once-over to see if there’s any excessive wear, damage, or other items that should be serviced. We’ll let you know what we find so you can decide what to do. There are even more lift and dock services in the works.
Give us a call today and ask what we can do for you.
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Geographic data for Wisconsin lakes
As promised, new maps have been uploaded to our site.
4 new maps have been added to our Maps Page. We now have available the Madison chain of lakes. Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, and Kegonsa. You can view them online or download the KML/KMZ files to load into your own copy of Google Earth. If you have a pro account with Google Earth–or other conversion software–you can even import them into your GPS unit and take them along when you’re on the water.
These maps are for general reference only. Manke Enterprises makes guarantees of accuracy. They’re meant to be an additional tool to give an overview of the lakes, but are no replacement for accurate tools, safe boating practices, and plain old common sense.
You can help us to improve our maps. If you know of a point of a lake hazard or point of interest that isn’t listed on our maps, or if you have more detailed information about any of the points that are listed, let us know! We’ll add the information and post the updated map. We’re not asking you to give away your secret fishing hole, just let us know if we’ve missed a stump, if there are restrictions on a boat landing, or if there’s something that other boaters should be aware of.
We have more maps coming. In the next week or two, we’ll be adding Fox Lake, Lake Ripley, Beaver Dam Lake, and several smaller lakes. And we’ll be updating the Lake Wisconsin maps–there’s so much information on Lake Wisconsin, we had to break it up into 3 separate maps: Hazards, Channel Markers, and Public Access.
Neil has been busy with the GPS unit this spring charting over a dozen lakes in the area. This means we’ll soon have new and updated lake maps available for Lake Wisconsin, Beaver Dam Lake, Lake Ripley, the Madison chain, and more.
These maps are built using Google Earth. They can be viewed online or downloaded to view on your own copy of Google Earth. OR… if you’ve subscribed to Google Earth Pro, you can import the data directly into your own GPS unit and take it with you when you’re out on the lake.
The maps include reference points for
We’ll start posting the maps next week
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While we’re always here to help if there’s a problem, sometimes the fix is simple enough that you can do it yourself.
In the spring when lifts are being used for the first time, we will get a lot of phone calls saying “My lift doesn’t work”. In many of these cases, the solution is really simple: battery connections.
Take a couple minutes to check your battery connections (if you have a DC-power lift). Make sure that the connections are clean and tight. That little fix can save you time, money, and headaches.
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