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Casey- I know, I know, Im doing the best I can. I bit off a lot this year. Might not get tapped in till first of feb but well see how it goes. Biggest thing I have left is the 600 tap bush but that is going to be real easy to tube. Ill be ready. Theron
still pullin logs with the wheeler almost done all the logs i wanted are piled up in a spot so when the snow covers every thing up i will know where they are, no im just skidding out all the logs that i wanted to get but werent priority, just to get the new stretch of woods cleaned up so i can run line with out tripping, going to need alot of slab wood to get this years hard wood to burn! probably 6 cord in the piles and i still gotta get the stuff home cut split and in the shed, working like a dog after school then muzzleloader starts up saturday and goes till next sunday, then im free of this instictive MUST KILL DEER thoughts in my head! its always great when its 8:10 and i have to be at school at 8:20 and i have a 15 min hike to get out of the woods yet! then walk in to school in full camo or full wool and every one shakes they're head and smiles!
I finally got back in the woods three weeks after finding the hole. Ran the rest of the mainline while it was warm and dry. My ankle still hurts, but a brace over thick socks did the trick. Now for the laterals. I did make lots of drops while I was laid up.
Well I put in the last of the saddles today few braches on the laterals...leftover widow makers from the ice storm last year came down in the wind storm last weekend!!!
1 thing to remember if you are stretching tubing and put in a Tee remember to make sure you put the tubing all the way because when you stretch it it will come off and you will fall!!!:emb: man everything went flying emptied all the fittings out of the tool belt... gotta wet butt twisted my wrist (not bad though) at least it was in the woods where no one could see ...would have been funny!!!!
So I added everything up that I spent this year and hopefully I can sell my syrup for $50 a quart so I can break even!!!!:rolleyes:
We've all taken a few of those tumbles Red Maples! I can't count the number of stumps, logs, laterals, snowshoes, etc... that have put me on my rear! Glad you're OK.
oh yeah I think I fall just about every time I go in woods:emb:
SO I called a friend of mine who happens to be the chairman of the planning board . and also has a logging company. I was just asking about the process of registering my maple business with the town bla bla bla. and asked what I was using for wood. said the usual getting from the woods junk wood pine etc. he's got 2 truck loads of pine 1 year old probably 12-15 cords said he would take 2 gallons of syrup for it not bad huh. so needless to say its coming next week but I can't pay him till the spring when I have syrup!!!!:cool:
December 3rd and 56 degrees! Worked on laterals after delivering some syrup. Only 200 more trees to get to in the new bush.
We have so much rain here the feilds are flooded in places. Ducks are heading south just to dry out instead of it being cold enough. If it freezes the ground will be a solid ice cube.
bring on the freeze...rooting for cold but no snow for a few weeks so we can get some good logging ground set up...
with all the rain we have been getting lately we had to stop logging. this down time gives me chance to work on my ongoing job of cutting the fir out of my maple stand, but that dosen't pay the bills. I think I saw one of those canadian ducks with a life jacket on today.