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dano,
Here's my take on your day today:
You skipped school!!!!
If you was good enogh to work on maple you was good enough to go to school.
Your schooling is more important!!!!
Don't get me wrong here, I did stuff like that too ( hunting, fishing, snowmobiling).
Now, your mom was right, you should have got some rest.
Hope your feeling better!!!
:-)
Dave
Wow
I last visited on the 15th. Been to tired plowing snow for the last few days. Atleast it was snow this time and not ice. I got a section of my bush that I need to replace the drops this winter so I'll be doing that soon.
Christmas sales were actually very good this year. When I started making everything right after Thanksgiving I was sceptical but now I'm happy that it turned out so well.
Also I need to get out and make sure no lines and drops are on the ground before the snow turns into ice from the rain I got coming on the 24th
Keith
32 inches of snow here after 4 days of non stop. finally plwed out. now have to find the snow shoes again
It's almost Christmas, I see a lot of guests lurking about on the trader, I just want to say Welcome! hopefully your enjoying it :)
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i was sick enough to stay home in the morning but i could have gone to school for the last half of the day, but hey ive got work to do, we werent doing much in school yesterday any way
dano,
Just razzing ya a bit!!
got back in the sugar woods today. snow right up to the pockets of my pants. had a few limbs come down. cleaned them up, got lines back up. then cut brush.dont like cleaning the snow away from the base of brush before i cut it. but do not want to walk on the sharp stumps later.
We have about 30" on the ground as I type. We have had lots more but it has settled to 30, of course there are drifts higher in places.
Tomorrow morning I am going to start adding my new tubing/expansion. I am designing it for wet dry with VAC but not putting up the dry this season. Next season I hope to add an RO and if I get that the VAC is next. That is when I will add the dry line, but everything except the dry line wire and dry line itself will be in place. I plan on adding 400 taps this year but will drop about 100 from another location, too much travel for too little sap once the bigger section is up and running. The bush I am adding in likely has enough for about 1000 taps total and is all on a side hill, uphill from the road. I think this will really be great when I get it done. If I have a per tap season near last year's I will have the funds to get the RO, might need a good blueberry year to add the VAC to or might even borrow for it. So far everything I have done in maple has been paid as I go, and I prefer that if at all possible.
went up in the woods after school today, and unrolled a 100ft 3/4 line for a branch, MAN I MISS MY MAPLEFLEX the black water pipe is rigid as hell especially since it was about 10 degrees, i wire tied about 10ft and taught my self a new wire tying trick, then it just got harder and harder as the twisties in the coil just didnt wanna come out cause of the cold, so i said im done and stetchedit and wrapped the end around the wire hoping it would loosen up and be easyer to work with in the morning, NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope to get a crap load done this week and next week, all the main line is going up come hell or high water
talked to a farmer i know up by my dads he had to take pipe out of a piece of land a few years back cause the new owners wanted to ride their horses in the woods but i remembered he had a vac on it so i called him last night to see if i could buy the releaser cause the one i have aperrently the door sticks on it some times , dont know nover used it but dont want it to stick while im at school, but any way i asked him if he had the thing still and he said yea, when i asked him if he would sell it to me hesaid nono im not going to sell it, but im probably not going to use it this year so you can use it this year, i was like SWEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT, he said to check in w him closer to sug season just to make sure he wasnt gunna use it.
but it made me happy to know that i might be able to use a blue gilles bernard rather than that 4ft tall ugly green lappiare with a strang door mechanism I am well on my way to many BIGSAP days!!!!!!!!!!:)
Glad to hear you made it home safely Michael. I got duped on rt 123 on the way out of Alstead and ended up in VT. I ended up getting that set of 2x6 pans I had been looking at. Now all I have to do is put my arch together. I also took a spin over to Tuckermtn's place on Sunday to pick up a couple of shirts and check out his set up so it was a good maple weekend despite the snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by mfchef54