Casey's sugar house 2009

[caseyssugarshack93]

Got up at 8, went in the woods at 10 and was ready to drill holes in my smaller bush, tapped around 240 taps in no time flat, had to work on some laterals there which took some time, found more maples there,should get me around 300 for next year, got the tank over to the big bush friday and lined it with plastic sheeting till i can afford a stainless i now have a 1200 old leader galvainzed tank in good shap just th seems leak a little so put osme sheeting in it a staped it to the woodin fram and ready to go, by next year ill restore the wooden fram and fix the seems. got some pliwood to cover the tank thats all done, and now going to get the evaporator set and ready to go, Trying oil see how it works,tomorow if its not going to snow like they said 6-12inches then ill go hook up the vaccum and set the tank at the small bush then tuesday the r/os getting hooked up YEE HAW CANT WAIT,

[caseyssugarshack93]

R/o come and got hooked up today:D cant wait to try it out

[Haynes Forest Products]

CASSEY Reclaimer should be there on thursday found filters for $13.50 each will need 3 will talk Chuck

[caseyssugarshack93]

Awesome i send you a Pm haynes, THANKS A TON

[caseyssugarshack93]

started tapping at the big bush today, got in around 200 taps, started at 4 and ended at 6, (started to get dark) vac pumps go in the woods friday and get hooked up and saterday hope for a run, if i didnt have school firday i could of probably got the vac hook up in morrning and maybe get some sap,Im going to set the lines in the tank and let it got by gravity if it runs friday then hook up the vac after school, Things are coming together here, Cleaning up the pans fridaynight and trying out the oil burner,

[caseyssugarshack93]

Got the big bush up and running tapped 500 there today-so i have a grand total of 705-725 taps at that bush, didnt get the pump hammerin till around 1, SAP WAS RUNNING LIKE CRAZY, have my pumps running right now, sap was still running pretty good, should get a BIG BIG BIG SAP run tomorow, Setting up the 250 tap bush tomorow on vac, and get that hammerin in the morring, and and fix some leaks that i already know of in the big bush, should be boiling tomorow.

[caseyssugarshack93]

collected 400 gallons, season is just getting goin, run that thought the r/o tomororw and make some Liquid gold

[caseyssugarshack93]

collected 635 gallons of 700 taps today, pretty good run, only ran the pump at 17inches, it was windy and the pump didnt get hot today, got some filters for the reclaimer that im adding to the pump to help cool it on the warm days, Looks like next weeks is going ot be one busy week, SAP SAP SAP, i have to boil tomorrow, Should make 20 or so gallons, season has started here,

[caseyssugarshack93]

been going pretty steady here,Getting things all worked out, seems like the season is just starting up here,

snowing here today, Suppto warm up and bee sunny by noon

[caseyssugarshack93]

Well the 09 season is over and been cleaning up the sugarhouse and getting wood ready, i dont really know what im going to do yet, im trying to get a 600gph r/o and then if i can afford it get a 4ft wide evap, if not then ill be boiling on a 2x6 with some high % conentrate, hopfuly everything goes as planned and getting a new vac pump from mike parker hopfuly works out too, im hoping to do an addion on the sugarhouse goingout 20-24 ft and put the tanks inside for the r/o and have a stainless feed tank in the air for the evap and get rid of plastic tanks, the list never ends on what u need for sugaring evaporator, r/o, vac pumps, relasers, tubing, fittings. well this summer is going to be a busy one, hope to get stuff all tightend down for next year, and hopfuly have 1400-1600 taps on vac and maybe a 100 or so buckets, then maybe look for a otherbush who knows, its Additcing

[maplecrest]

are you feeling like you need a fix BAD!!!! than you have the addiction. better call maple anomous @ maple creek and fast. or talk to me and i will teach you how to spend money that starts with a ,000,s

[caseyssugarshack93]

as of right now im trying to sell stuff to get stuff ready for next year i need a 600 r/o deffinly then if i can afoord a 4ft wide rig then that, then pump, im working for a4-5 weeks this summer to make some cash and get my car finaly all restored and the rest is going to the sugarhouse addion and r/o,

hows everything going maplecrest? adding on any? i noticed ur seling ur rig

[maplecrest]

hope to sell rig, alot goes with it for the price, could make you a nice one, ordered new one.5x14 thunderbolt. working on details of two new woods. could total 10000 this comming season.details too follow as time goes on.

[caseyssugarshack93]

Thats a little big for me maplecrest haha, well hope u sell it, and get to your 10,000 taps. how many stations do u have that u collect at ?

[maplecrest]

4 pump stations now will be 6 if all goes

[dano2840]

my name is Dan O'Shaughessy and im addicted to making maple syrup , the its only been about a month and a half since i last boiled and have already spent 1500 on next years season i need help............. so does casey

[caseyssugarshack93]

hopfuly everything goes as planned for me, now its time to start building a addion for a new evap hopfuly and r/o and tanks to go with it for inside.

[KenWP]

I so far haven't spent too much on next season. Just a few SS peices that I found cheap. The feed store in town has 304 SS pipe fittings for a fraction of the price D&G sells them for. Just by accident I found out they sell them.

[caseyssugarshack93]

only thing i so far spent was 7 rolls of tubing and some little other things, nothing big quite yet, till i get a concreate bill for 16x24 addion