here are a few pictures of a company flooding the road and pads for diamond drills on the lake out in front of my house. this is a pretty slick setup. the one my friend uses for flooding ice roads is similar, but a bit smaller and on a small sleigh type setup so it can be towed behind a snowmachine or a quad, half ton or whatever. they usually drill right in the center of the road, and will be out there as soon as they can get the road plowed off, either with a pickup, or a groomer/snowcat
the third photo is of some sort of ice auger setup with a nozzle that I don't know anything about.
if you have any other questions about the ice roads and such around here I can try my best to answer them