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mapleman3
03-06-2006, 06:59 PM
Joe, where are you? hows the sap running? Rick come up to your place yet? too bad he's not boiling this year.. he doesn't seem to pipe in much :(

themapleking
03-07-2006, 07:20 PM
Pulling my hair out this year. One problem after another. Crappy Conde' vacuum pump seals leaking. Only getting 15" of vacuum out it. You get more reliable vacuum from a $2 bar fly. Their motto should read 1 pump per season
Lines on the feed tank froze up and cracked. I can't wait till Rick shows up cause I need a BEER !!!
Besides all that I've made up 84lbs of cream, 75lbs of sugar, 650 suckers, 700 1/3 oz candy peices. 100 jars of maple jelly. 20 gals of new syrup

WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER
03-07-2006, 07:36 PM
Sounds like you are having a pretty good year so far. Isn't it funny that there are always one or two problems every year no matter how long you do it. :lol: :lol:

mapleman3
03-07-2006, 10:33 PM
Hiya Joe, sorry about the problems, I screwed up and didn't drain my tranfer line and also froze and broke a line last night... no vacuum today and bought the wrong fitting to fix it.. oh well one more day won't kill me... To bad Rick will be basking in the sun during your maple weekend :cry: was he going to stop by before he leaves??

themapleking
03-12-2006, 06:54 PM
Dumped 540 gal of sap on the ground today. Had that bad smell to it. Too many warm days. Went out to the woods and pulled all of the Red maple spouts. about 30. The reds have budded out.
Were is the cold weather.

WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER
03-25-2006, 06:17 AM
Joe,

Sounds like Northern NY has broken loose?? How about you??

themapleking
03-27-2006, 11:35 PM
The tree gods are good this week. 400 gal saturday, 700 gal sunday, 1400 gal monday, should be 1000+ for tuesday. back to making
med-light color still taste good. Broke 100 gal tonight :)

mapleman3
03-27-2006, 11:40 PM
Hows that auto drawoff doing?

WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER
03-28-2006, 02:22 PM
A few more days like that and you will break last years record! :D