October Journal

Brief update from NWPA to all our friends on the trader, I read of lots of good syrup related work being completed on here! WOW!

Cheryl has been in the hospital since Thursday, she needs to have her gallbladder out and they are taking their time trying to be able to do the less invasive laproscopic type surgery. She may be able to come home tomorrow. Then they will schedule the removal in the near future.

I have been working on a fabrication project that is somewhat sugar related.
I am building a 5 foot hand brake to attempt bending some nice clean corners in Stainless steel. I am using Big Eddy's design (Shown here on the trader). I have the base and end brackets attached and the pivot point with the front bending lip completed. I have to work on the hold down feature and its attachments today. If this works there are several trader folks that need hoods built and this tool may come in handy. I might even find some small project to work on too.:) Seems my rear pan is 5 foot long Hummmm, what could I build?????

Daughter Kelly and I will be taking granddaughter Marly to the local maple museum today to meet Marly from the book Miracles on Maple Hill. Also we will tour the museum to get 'siked' up for maple season.

Hope everyone is enjoying the great fall leaf colors.

Hunters: We have not had a deer hanging yet this season. Eric and Nic are looking for some horns.

Brandon good luck!

Regards,
Chris

Hi Chris,
It is good that you have time to stop by. Good luck with ths wife's surgery. I had it done a few ago and it is just a small walk in the park. I came home the same day but Doc would not let me lift anything for 6 weeks. However it may be a little different for your wife. Hope the bending project turns out OK for you.

My wife just had the same operation six weeks ago and has just gone back to work. She is an ER nurse so she needs to be able to lift so that kept her out for 6 weeks.
She had it lapriscopicly and it still hurts once and a while
Chris hope it goes well for your familly
Keith

Chris,

Thanks and good luck with you and your wife and a speedy recovery! Good luck with the brake, hope you can build you a awesome new max pan.

Put up 1000 feet of 1 1/4 pipe today, wire tie it all on. It took me 6 hours to do. I bought 500 foot rolls. That is all one man can do to roll out in the woods. Iam going to build a reel to dispense the pipe from instead of rolling it out in the woods. Awesome day to be in the woods sunny and almost 60 degree's. MC

my new 5x14 thunderbolt was rolled into place this afternoon. now i have to figure out were all the parts and pieces that go with it go. thank you Tom, Matt and Reggie from Lapierre usa.

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Originally Posted by Randy Brutkoski

Might sound like a dumb question but, is a sugar house tax exempt or will i have to pay taxes on it? It will have a cement slab. thanks

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You will have to pay taxes on it. It's probably not going to be much though.

Chris,

Good luck with Cheryl's surgery.

Seeing how your rig is complete, I'm wondering, what are you going to make?;)

Chris best of luck from here as well. I am picturing that brake mounted on the back of a trailer making stops from one trader to the next:) .
Life was good again this weekend for the family here. 15 year old nephew arrowed his very first deer saturday night. A nice 6 point. He suprised his dad and had it all gutted and dragged back to camp before his dad made it out of his stand. Rut is gonna be early this year guys. I have seen alot of scraping already which is about a week and a half early for camp. Buddy got a wallop of an eight point today and it's neck was swollen. He said it was chasing a doe around before he made the shot. This deer is big it has to be pushing close to 200 pounds. Hope everyone is doing well and ready for the up and coming maple season.

Rub it in 3rgen for use guys that are whipped and can't hunt anymore. You will have a bit of meat now for the winter. Lots of deer here right now also. usually this time of year you see lots of deer when they cycle.
Slow but sure will get my evaporator made this winter. I am tired out from school and don't get a lot done when I do work on it. 3rgen you got any sap coming out of those trees yet. Havent had a lot of cold nights here lately to make sap run if I did want to tap. Hopefully winter brings on some cold.