A machine that’s been smoothing sheets of ice almost as long as the Chicago Wolves have been playing hockey in Rosemont is ...

Frank and Lawrence sold their ice-making plant in 1939 ... Realizing that time was money, Frank Zamboni began designing a self-propelled resurfacing machine. In 1942, he bought a farm tractor ...

But the mundane work of the ice-resurfacing machine can be just as mesmerizing. There’s a nostalgic magic to the way the Zamboni slowly circles the rink, with a glistening sheen in its wake.

But a machine to resurface these diy rinks is unheard of until now. The big name in rink resurfacing is Zamboni, the person who invented this method of keeping the ice pristine. This has almost ...

But maintaining such a large ice surface is a challenge. A regular Zamboni can’t do it; the job is just too big. So the solution is a custom machine called the Froster, conceived by Robert ...