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jrthe3,
If you have some syrup left just boil to 260 take off the fire and stir and you can make your own sugar about as quick as driving some where.
Missed you at the Asbury event we may have been done at the sugarhouse> we finished in the maple room at about 12:30 with pancakes and good NWPA syrup. The car was in the back perched on a 2 foot high boulder.
Jim,
The rock didn't phase the Chrysler much. I turned the front tire into the rock for traction and it climbed back over it with a little help from Burton and the Durfee family. Drove it to work today with no noticeable change.
Jim,
Keith wants you to come over and see his arch and your door! Hard to believe he built a outfit around that door! Still looking for pans for him.
Chris
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chris
maple sugar is that what jan has that you mix with cool whip i did not see what the mother in law got but she got it from jan she said it was a power
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Got the crane moved over to the woodpile/slasher,last night ,,crane carrier (1976 Autocar with 350 cummings) starts real hard and its always a job to get running,(should have some better-more batteries, but big $$$) last night I stacked all the dumptruck loads I had trucked home over the last month or so,,,looks more like 10-12 cords???to cut up,,,still have 7 or so to split (all cut),heading out now to hook the crane to the slasher and cut up the pile,,,gotta have a littel fun-cant log everyday
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Parker- Good work on the wood. Glad to see that your getting ready for the BIGSAP. I notice that some of you guys have been having a good time hunting and spending time with your families and thats real nice. Im sure that youve had some real good times and some special moments that you will treasure always but ive got one thing I kind of need to say. WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YOU GUYS THINKING???? BIGSAP JUST AROUND THE CORNER, NO TIME TO WASTE!!!!!GO!!!GO!!!GO!!! Things are going good down here in Pa. Trying to get something done. This last weekend finished up the young stand saturday. Only thing left is saddles. Went across the road sunday. Worked from about 4 am till dark and got about 14 or 15 rolls of 5/16 in the air. Im having a hard time remembering exact numbers. Looks real nice. Went to the boys basketball game and came home and made mainline connections till I went in to work at 10pm. Worked till 2pm monday and came home and ran another 4 rolls. Thats sugaring my friends. Freaked out pretty mommy this morning. Told her im totally broke now and cant buy any more syrup stuff. She was so happy. Then I told her I was going to every restaurant and bakery getting buckets and was figuring on putting a few out. Like 800 maybe. I think something snapped inside her pretty little head. She started making loud noises and kind of started twitching. The kids thought it was neat. Shell come around. I explained how easy it would be and I think that reassured her. Looks like just guessing were looking at +or - 3500 taps on the big pump, probly more + than -, and all the buckets I can come up with. Keep the kids off the streets. Keep me posted on all things syrup. Zar
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valley view, saw your tanks from the highway yesterday as i headed for maple grove quite a shine comming out of the valley
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Gravel pit- I dont think Ill have 9000 next year unless I hit the lottery or score more buckets. Ill see what I can do. Maybe Ill get burnt out this spring and say the heck with it. That would be a heck of site to see 9000 buckets to collect. Id either be the toughest guy around or dead.
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That would be neat to see. I wonder how they gathered it all. You better keep those tanks Andy. Your a serious producer and your going to need them with your lines all fixed up. Theron
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Scored 6 beer kegs some 13+gal the others 15+ gals. I have 4 cleaned out with the pressure washer , no beer smell left at all, picked up some rubber expanding plugs. I still have to pick up one of them from a buddy and the other I still am trying to get the center out.. it's a weird type I think it's screwed in but you cant get anything on it to screw it back out... I will post a pic here soon (my camera broke-have to use phone or daughters cam) maybe someone else has seen the type. it is on a guiness stout keg.
Also when you store them empty till you fill them do you keep them plugged or open? I would think they will need to be open to air out any moisture??????
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can u imagine 10000 buckets 10000 taps and hooks and lids ... u would need a barn just for them then imagine washing them ... wow that would be wild to see
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Guys- This is a little peak into what was going on in my little pea brain today. I think this is what Im going to do on the buckets. Ive got permission to put in another 1100 taps. Im broke. Let me translate that for the bigsapzar impaired. Flat stony, zilch, nada, financially embarrased. This is the plan. I cant live with the fact that I can tap these trees but I cant afford to so this is the brainstorm. All of these taps are in perfect concentrated little areas. So Im going to put drums for dumping stations so I can collect easy and it will run gravity out to the road. Then Im going to get 1100 or 1200 spiles that I can use in the bush when I tube it next year. Put drops on them. Got tube for that and get all the large containers I can get before season and put them on the ground with the tube in them on the big trees and put milk jugs on all the little ones and tell the kids to get it. Thats the plan. Ill probly lose a lot of sap but oh well whatever I get I get. If I have to keep the kids home from school and compromise thier education than I guess thats how its got to be. Every night when I ask them what they learned that day they say "nothin" anyway so I guess its no great loss. Anyway as of right now thats what Im thinkin. If Im not on the trader Im probly on bucket patrol. Gonna try to make dreams come true for maple grove this year. Zar
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