I always take my fun serious !!!!!!
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I always take my fun serious !!!!!!
Theron that 40 degree is just the first day of the January thaw. It should be warm for at least 3 or 4 days after that one. Keep an eye on that forecast!
YAY! thats what i hoped it meaned, its fun until its 2 am and every one left the sugar house at 10 and youve been in there for 4 hours alone, then its not so much any more, but that was in my tent sugar house, this year im gunna have a real sugar house and the friends at school have already got plans to through a few big ol partys in it so we will seeQuote:
Originally Posted by PATheron
Dano2840 Thats when things go really bad. Anytime there is more than 6 people in my shack I need to have a babysitter in there. I cant consentrate on all the things that NEED to be done and I leave a crucial step out like filling the head tank or drawing off and thats when the big shiny brown bubbles start to form........YIKES
Thats when you should do your homework
PA,
I use the National Weather Service, Gray Maine to get the weather for here and it's pretty accurate.
I'm not sure what you need for your local weather, go to Gray, Maine and scroll out to where you are and click on the map and you'll have it.
Now, I'll give you a little hint, any forecast beyond three days is not very dependable and the further out it gets the less dependable it is, so your forecast for (I think) the 25th ain't worth squat!!
Sorry pal, but that's the truth of the matter.
Just for grins and chuckles try thank weather site.
Dave
Haynes,
Just curious how you clean out your pans with oven cleaner?? Do you use it on the syrup pan and flue pan and do you just spray it and then pressure what it out or what goes on and what kind do you use?? I am always curious to see how others do things.
Dano,
As Haynes said that's when things go real bad!!!!!
You've got to much invested to be having parties there!!!
If you start having parties there you will not get any customers while your boiling.
The public likes a nice clean and professional operation and I am sure you'll give them that!!
Only my thoughts, not trying to be a jerk here!
Dave
i like it best in the sugar house when it just me and my fire man any more people in there just get in the way and there to much hot stuff to be bumping into people
well this weekend if the snow not blowing to hard i going to start pulling blue in the woods it looks like it will be a fun year i will have all the time of the day to boil no job to worry about i tapping every tree that will stand still long enough for me to get a hole in it when the vac pump shows up i am hooking it to as many tree as i have time to
WVM From day 1 I could never get my flue pan clean by filling it with pan cleaner and scrubbing or soap. We would fill it up and boil the water and cleaner and scrub and swear. This year I broke it all down and was going to just power wash it and then it dawned on me that all the crud was both oily build up and minerals so I got to thinking when I clean my work bench with a solent like mineral spirits the spilled coke stays behind and that was what got me to spray E Z off oven cleaner on it. I had it standing on its end and with the $65 elec power washer it came out like new. Sprayed it on let it sit for about 1hr and out it came. I found trying to clean the pans with other cleaners the gunk would just jell back on and smear. I think a garden hose would work just fine. heating with oil I found that when I cleaned the bottom of the flues the soot would float and get all over the place so the oven cleaner help contain it and it didnt float on the water and spread.
I just read a book on maple sugaring and I realized that I am itching for the season to start again. Like baseball players wait for spring.
I still have a lot to do, so it can hold off a while.
We still need to put up some more taps.
It's getting near, though.