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got my season layoff from work on monday so it looks good for two weeks of PA deer seasom hope i don't need it all then it time for all things maple i have all the wood cut split and in the wood shed aka old sugar house just need to cclean out sugar house and hang tubing
Well, I go today to pick up my brand-spankin new Leader, 2x6 American! Have been cutting wood for the past two months, Put the flashing on the roof while the weather was still warm, built a new wood shed and now will start trimming around my Maples in the woods. I AM BLESSED! ;)
Not much for maple this week trying to get the house staighten up and x-mas lights up outside. man I have to say I love them but man my kids are pigs!!! stuff just evrywhere!!! I was never like that when I was a kid;). I just used to hammer my dad's tools into the ground:D scew drivers are great for that!!!!
anyway back to cleaning!!!
chris (sugarmaker) i remeber you saying about how to cut bulk tanks apart what was it that you do where you cut them
Boyd,
( ref 250 -500 gallon Dari-Kool ice bank type) Other type tanks I dont have a clue:)
I have used a 4 inch grinder, and aggressively attacked the seams, corners. This is fairly fast, but noisy and lots of sparks, be safe. I just got some thin grinding wheels that folks say work great too.
I have several tricks on this type tank. One is that I lift the inner milk tank out with a engine lifter:) then strip off the outer skin, remove the pink insulation and keep whittling.
3 hours and you can have it in the truck and home!
Regards,
Chris
Reading some of the folks that are expanding like mad, which is great. Could maple fever be akin to gold rush fever? I can almost hear the sap dripping:)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Chris
Hope somebody is hunting deer some place. On the way to school in the last two days I have seen more amourous bucks then I have ever seen around here. They are standing beside a busy highway trying to out talk a doe for affection.
I can find the floor of the shop finally so I can get enough room to build my evaporator now. I seem to have a plan now to go foreward with.
KenW I am always deer hunting when the season is open. I will be hunting tomarrow morning break for thanksgiving and hunt through sunday at sunset. I still got 2 tags left. I have all the venison I need but I use a tag for my sister who loves the meat but not the hunt and I try to fill the last tag for a friend who just cant get around like he used too.
I cannot believe the weather we have been having. I love it but sure does kill any ideas of getting some fall syrup on the shelves. I keep going to the sugarhouse after dark and can't find much to do except one little project that Fred Henderson helped me out on. Just waiting for an answer on how I can make that work. I think next week I will get after some more wood to get ahead on next year. Fred I still remember.
Just wanted to add a little note here for you guys that come up to my neck of the woods to get some steelhead fishing in. They are here and looks like it is gonna be another banner year on the river.
Been playing around with some dairy vac pumps this year. Yesterday finished one up that I want to use myself. Want all through it. Its and sp 11 and I got the oil changed out, Cleaned the sight tube good. Fixed the electric motor so it works good and painted it all up nice with ford blue engine paint. Really turned out nice. It just purrs and seems to make real good vac. I really like it a lot. If I can come up with the time I want to put it on a couple hundred taps mostly just to get to run it. Now Im working on an sp 22 that I found that was really bad shape. It was all seized up but it looks like with a lot of soaking Im going to have it rebuilt like new. I think Im going to put a gas engine on that and have it ready to go in an area where theres no electric. Plus my one friend has two ring pumps on gas that sometimes mess up and ruin a coupling somehow so I think well use it for an emergency set up. The pumps are fun to play with anyhow. Anyway Im real proud of the 11. Ill try to get some pics down the road of all this stuff. Hopefully Matt will come down in start of season and hes real good at that kind of thing. Theron
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It has been a better year here than expected because of the economy and I have a lot to be thankful for.
Theron I hope that you can save that SP-22. I love mine and will buy another when I can spare the money. A sweet purr and 23" of vacuum 24-7. A pump you can be proud of!