October Journal

I know I'm a few hours early for October but it's about time to start the journals again. First day back in the woods for me. Beautiful day, perfect weather. Spent the day walking mainlines picking up old tubing from last years work before the leaves fall. Got 1/2 the bush done. Some downed trees but nowhere near the moose damage we had last year so far. All in all, looking good. I sprung out of bed at 5:30 with a smile on my face and will head to bed with the same smile. I friggin' love sugar season and its in full swing on weekends for me :cool:

Have 12,000 feet of mainline and wire to install (wire and line is pulled but have to string it up), starting Saturday I'll be living in the woods until its done!

Yesterday I ordered all the fittings I need to build a preheater. hoping to get about 7-8 more gph.
We'll see ,I will run a test boil before it gets really cold out.

Have done nothing maple all summer. I have cleaned the sugar house and am getting ready to install a wood stove though

Going to be bricking my new 2x5 arch this weekend.
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Been working periodically in the sugar woods cleaning up and reopening travel paths. Ran mainline wire in my North facing woods today adding about 500 feet. In my south facing woods I am hoping to get about 500 more feet run this week. Plan to put my mainline up next weekend.

Got about 100 miles of wire and pipe ran since mid May, including about 10,000' of 4" fusion,18,000' of 3" fusion, and 25,000' of 3\8" cable. Last week we started running tubing, got in 220 rolls, only 1800 rolls left to go :lol:

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Originally Posted by Chris_In_Vermont

Got about 100 miles of wire and pipe ran since mid May, including about 10,000' of 4" fusion,18,000' of 3" fusion, and 25,000' of 3\8" cable. Last week we started running tubing, got in 220 rolls, only 1800 rolls left to go :lol:

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How many taps you going to have there?

I believe this is Glen Goodriches new sugar house in Eden Vt. I think they are installing 50,000 taps a year for the next 4 years for the total of 200,000 taps.There is going to be a tubing seminar there in Eden the first sat. in November. They are going to run the sugar house in Cabot too.

Yep Brian nailed it. I'm Glenn's woods crew foreman for this project. 50,000ish a year for the next 3 years for hopefully around 200,000. That's just estimates from a timber cruise, hard to be exact over 5000 acres but I bet it'll be close.
Amazing thing about this woods is no trucking. We're going to pump about half of it, and the rest will run straight in. That in itself is huge.
Sugarhouse is coming along, equipment starting to show up, it's coming together.