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Dave, Matt will be on the streets trucking sap from his sugar bush back to his sugar house. I won't be doing that anymore. My trees are all on my own land now and I only have to pump the sap up the hill. The sap hauler has been demoted to just wood hauler now.
Trucking will be my middle name this year for sure. That's ok. Bring it on. I might fire up the RO today to get it warmed up.
I tested a couple small reds behind the sugarhouse the other day. They were in the sun, it was 28 degrees and they were running. Sap was 2%.
The whole time we were working on Matts lines I was laughing inside thinking how screwed he would be. Cant wait till season. He should have some BIGSAP for sure. He'll get it in the barrells no prob he'll just be a little busy now and then. Itll be fun to see him scramble though. Jeff- I wonder if the plastic fittings are a prob if they are installed with the mainline tool? Maybe its just if they are put on by hand or heated becouse mine seem like a pretty good fix with them being put on cold with the tool they are basically pressed on. I guess maybe Ill find out becouse Ill be down to around 1.5 cfms this year and I have a ton of fittings with all the dry lines and valves etc. See how high the vac stays and that will tell the tale. Gotta hook some stuff up now, releaser, tanks etc, then if everythings complete were back to the taps. Stole a bunch of Matts stuff when I was up there gonna hit more trees till it warms up. BIGGGG-SAPPPPPPPPPP EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Theron
Well spent most of the last 24 hours dealing with snow. More storms for Tue. and Thur. and then an artic blast will be here so it looks like I won't be doing to much outside this week. Got some drops to replace so I'll probably make them up inside and wait for temps back to freezing or alittle over.
Keith
Matt...you the man! Are you running it with a one man show or are you recruiting some help?
I commandeered the kitchen today for making maple products.
A batch of Hot maple BBQ ,
batch of Reg maple BBQ ,
batch of Hot Maple Mustard and a
batch of Reg maple mustard (about 3.5 gallons of syrup).
Also canned a half gallon of some light syrup for a guy at work too.
Our granddaughter Marly and grandson Mike stopped over with there mom and I just had to make a batch of Marly's special PAP candy ( maple candy) She shoved it in about as fast as it cooled.
08 Syrup is just about gone it was a good 08 season, We are only a month or so away from starting to have some 09 syrup.
Chris
ALERT, ALERT!! This is a test of the emergency BIGSAP system. This is only a test. If this was a real alert it would be followed by tank cleaning recommendations, time and duration of potential sap flows etc. Just spied a potential run day on January 25th for the northeastern Pa area. 40 degree plus day. Could be the first run. Only thing is its on Accu (feelgood weather) so who knows. Ill be watching this developing situation like a hawk. More details to come. The(bigsapzar)roon.
Theron get those drill batteries charged and the tapping bit in the chuck. Don't want to miss a drop!
Theeeeeeron-
THat is something I have going with accuweather. I called and paid them a lot of money to put in some phoney weather for you to get you excited. Glad you are watching it like a hawk. Check the weather every 10-15 minutes incase the 15 day forecast changes.
Still spitting a little snow today. Glad the tubing is strung. Now when we get 100 feet of snow I don't have to work in it. Just drill little holes.
mike, this is a 1 man punishment band. I don't want any help they would just slow me down. I want to feel all the pain, so that I can say I earned it.
Tapping, walking lines, collecting and trucking sap, and processing it into barrels. I might be boiling in June in case any of you guys want to stop over when your season is done. I'll still have sap.
Matt,
I'll bet i am boiling as long as you . I may be pushing 3000 this year. Once I get sap I don't think I will see the bottoms of my tanks until it is long over.