Thanks for your help! Good luck this year!

Morning all! New member/Ice Fisherman from Toledo, Ohio here. A little bit of background. Avid hunter and fisherman, who's always wanted to try out ice fishing. Well 2 years ago I finally found someone with a shanty and who was willing to go towards the end of that year. I fell in love immediately. However last year, since the winter season wasn't all that cold, I wasn't comfortable going out.... so I've literally been waiting almost 2 years to go again.... And finally it's been cold enough! Bought all my gear and I'm thinking with the 2 weeks of cold weather and the past 5 days of 0 degree night weather I should be good to go.

One question. How do you guys measure the ice thickness? I'm overly cautious so going out onto the ice to drill a hole on ice you're not sure about seems dangerous to me.