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Danno I would have passed on a doe with a fawn still sticking with her as well. They will survive at this point in time on it's own but still I don't feel right about it myself. As far as grunting goes short grunts this time of year. Long grunts can represent different emotions, like aggression, doe tending, etc. My opinion in early season is that I am still see bucks together and feel no threats from them so I think short social grunts are the way to go right now.
Yeah danno did the same thing yesterday...Except for the squirrel thing. watched a nice big doe for about 1/2 hour was just a little too far. SOOOO many acorns WOW just when she was about 30 yards from my stand getting ready to pull back I heard something and saw a little brown flicker through the hemlock tree said to myself oohh maybe a buck. nope 2 fawns same ones I been watching in my yard all summer passed her up!!!! ****... well watch them eat acorns for another 45 minutes until they finally left.
I called in a six point last year with a grunt call I do long grunts wait a few minutes 1 or 2 short ones then wait about 5 minutes and try again I don't grnut too much this time of year though more so durring rut. he didn't come close enough to shoot at. I have also called them in with a bleat too. years ago I was in a stand bleating and heard one answer me thought a doe was coming through the woods and it was a monster 10 point or 5x5 for those who call them that...biggest buck I have ever seen in the woods it was down in MA it was a legend at the time, well over 200lbs. just skirted the egde of the woods about 60- 70 yards away. was bleating the whole time height of the rut acting kinda stupid too. women 'll do that to ya.
started to tighten up main line but ran out of daylight and didn't feel like tredging through the swamp. And rain again today. just about all tied on. just have to secure to a few more trees so there are no sags then I can put in the second branch off it, then when thats done start laterals. and install a main line across the street in my neighbor's woods. But the list is getting smaller I love that my "Stuff needed for sugaring" list is finally down to like 3 things. now still trying to check some more things off of the "stuff I need to do for sugaring" list thos are things seem to take a little longer longer. to do.
My wife's saying " Part of the destination is the journey"!!!!!
My saying "don't play poker with a guy named after a city" (Teen Wolf) and "don't believe everything you think!"
Wayyyy behind the 8 ball….again. So many summer projects kept taking priority. Didn’t even start on the sugar house, had to push it back until next year, so I’ll be on the block arch again this coming season.
The sugar house is in the budget and mama is quarterbacking the show telling me how she wants it built, I’m just flat out of time this year and still have too many things out front of it. >sigh<
I did manage to get a cider mill on board to sell the stuff once I get licensed. Got the wood lot to a manageable level, but still have some work to do there. ¾ of the woodlot is now marked and have a pretty good idea how I’m going to run the tubing, I’ll know more when the leaves come down.
Still cutting wood, don’t have enough yet for the house or syrup season. Been taking down the dead and still standing trees, using the trunks and bigger branches for the house, the lighter stuff from the crowns for sugaring, that’s working out fairly well, but still need another two cord for the house. By the time I get that cut up I should have enough for the evap.
Got some good ideas from reading here on how to tweak my arch. Hopefully I can best the 7 GPH from last year because…well…that just sucked. :lol: Live and learn.
Didn’t get my bow restrung so I’ll be sitting out the archery season again this year. Got a couple of ground blinds up along with a stand come firearm season. Still wondering if I’m going to make it up bird hunting this year, too much yet to do.:-|
oh man!!! have to pospone the trip up to the north country VT, my son has an ear infection and my sister's got 2 very little ones and we don't wanna give them his cold. maybe we could do the kankamangus Highway (sorry don't know how to spell that one) or something may be apple picking if he feels ok we'll see!!! gave him some anitbiotics today hopefully they start to kick in by tomoorow sometime!!!!!
havnet been doing much with sugaring this past week, been moving wood for the house and sugarhouse, plan for the weekend is go into new woods and run the 1000ft of 3/4 pipe i have sitting in my garage and get that in the air, and then probably next wekk run laterals,
what a day yesterday was went to bascoms sold some syrup then rolled up to valleyviews sugarhouse ...for the gathering of the greats ... i will start this way sugarmakers our some of the niciest people u will ever meet ... the amount of food we had was crazy ... the crew ... supper sappy ...maplecrest... tapme ...of course vv and the guest of honor a set of wfmasons pans ...oops i mean ogs .... and future sugarmakers running and playing and wives oh and garlic steve...buy time i left the story telling was up and running and well i puked in vvs float box and i saw ogs peing in the bulk tank tap was chasing the gogo dancers foams and vv had the junk yard band going foams on jugs and i mean syrup jugs ... vv on the skimmer and garlic steve was drumming and some 55 gal drums ...and vv who was the drunk chic in the r/o room?
was a great time peace. had a good time talking to you all. then today i spent with parker walking maple stands and talking vac set ups.
Peace; you forgot the part about my honey chasing me with the skimmer when I was after the gogos. Hard to say what was the best part of the day but the food comes close. I'm putting it on all the great company and all the sugar talk and stories (sugar tom in particular) or was it the supper sappy. It was all great. Big thanks to the family that hosted the event, just wonderful people. Thanks to all that came from the TapME and we should do this again.
PS. The trip there and back had some nice colors too. Ogs the colors waited for you to come, I can't remember them being this late in a long time.
Spent the day clearing brush for the last stretch of main line. Foggy at first with a light mist, then sun came out and very nice. Sat down for lunch and had a nice doe walk within 30 yards. This is the best time of year to be in the woods. Tomorrow will start stringing wire
I walked a sugarbush this morning and it's not going to work. It's about 2000 feet in the woods and the 200+ trees are fairly well spread out. It wouldn't be worth it to tube it and would need vac. just to get it out of the woods.
I spent some time last weekend walking my lines and cutting down some dead stuff. My shephard managed to find an underground yellow jacket next and she wasn't too happy about that. They're nasty little buggers.
Feeling the Walk jeff and I took yesterday! Steep ground-long conductor line, 1.5 miles to the end of it? Rupert has some NICE maples,,,,got another 3 cords in today,,,mabey 10 left to go...............
Worked in the woods on Thurs and Friday and got about 1300' of 1/2" mainline up. First experience with the 30p manline and definitely glad I paid the extra for it as it is easy to work with and should definitely improve sap quality over the dreaded black stuff. Weather was great both days and the woods are so beautiful and the temps just perfect this time of year.
Went to a different entrance into the mainlines this time with the lateral lines. I almost always bring a lateral into the mainline at a tree and I use the "Y" forks which are awesome for keeping the laterals nice and tight. I drilled a 5/16" hole into the top of the mainline and took a 5/16" connector inside of the lateral line and forced it down into the hole in the mainline. I sealed it up with high grade silicon caulk which was completely unnecessary, as there was a tight seal in the mainline with the fitting. There is no tension at all on the line going into the mainline, and if the lateral line has something to fall on it, all of the strain would be on the other side of the "Y" fork. I think the caulk would be completely unnecessary for gravity which is what I run, but would be necessary for vacuum. Most of the mainline I put up is attached to overhead electrical lines that were taken out of service. I would guess they are aprox 3/8" in diameter as I got aprox 3000'+ of it that was taken out of service and I side tied it off with 14 gauge wire which should break fairly easily if it is stressed.
Be interested to see how it works as I added another 85+ taps this fall and most of my lateral line mainlines were getting over capacity.
LIFE WAS GOOD TODAY!!!!!! No rain and there was this funny looking ball of flame in the sky that I have not seen in quite awhile. Colors are really showing now unfortunetly though alot of leaves got prematurely blown off the trees from the high winds and rain over the past few days. Got some deer cut up and made some venison breakfast sausage to pour some syrup on. Got some more yet to do on it and make some Italian sausage yet. Unloaded 1.5 cords off the wagon and stacked, got the wagon filled with another 1.5 cords. Sold the last 13 quarts of syrup I had to the bed and breakfast next door. They provide a complimentary pancake breakfast for the fisherman with my syrup. One couple liked it so much they took 4 quarts home with them and put in an order for next year as well. I gotta tell you guys, living here my whole life and have tasted everybodys smoked salmon nothing taste even close to as good as theres. They glaze the salmon with the syrup I sold them. I did have one of those, man Im *@#$#% mad:evil: but happy :D at he same time moments today. The story goes something like this. When we bought the John Deere tractor (slightly used at the time) from our local now out of business JD dealer I had them do a tune up on it. Hydraulic fluid change, Hydraulic filter, oil filter etc..... Well soon after we started using it which was years ago we had to frequently change the hydraulic filter as the hydraulics would get slow from the filter clogging. I would go to the dealer and get a few of them at a time. I would change them every couple months and when doing annual maintenance I would change the hydraulic fluid as well. Well 2 months ago I used up my supply of filters. Now mind you I have been splitting wood by hand mostly cause I got tired of how slow the splitter would work. So I ran down to napa with the filter number in hand and asked if they had or could get any. Guy says we do not carry that brand but he could look the number up and get a different brand. He played with the computer a little bit and looked at me and said...... how many miles you got on that 67' ford truck. Huh ford truck no it is a john deere tractor and I need a hydraulic filter. Guy laughed and said this was a special filter for a ford truck and it was not even a hydraulic filter. Well he had the correct one in stock so I got 2. Put it on and wow look out that bucket goes up faster than you can blink and the splitter is like a rocket now. It never worked that well from day one. The thing is twice as fast with the right filter compared to the other one. I cannot believe I never burned up the pump. AHHHHHHHH yes life was good today.
Working on maple now finally with work slowing down. Putting in the Booy bush for the boys right now. Got about 3000 ft of mainline up yesterday. Its all hedgerows and fun to put in. Awefull distances though. Not sure if its going to be gravity or vac when its all said and done. 4000 ft to the releaser with one inch line. Then another 3000 to the end. Only 300 taps though so have to see what happens. Worst case scenerio I put a dairy pump on it but Im going to try to run it off the house first. Kids are helping build it. Found a way to keep them out of trouble and off the streets with the wire ties. That keeps them busy. Even had to bust out my heavy hitter, pretty little mommy, yesterday to help us man the spinning jenny pulling out mainline. Looks like quite a stroke going on with the pickup, fourwheeler, ton truck, all for 300 taps. Makes the neighbors wonder. Anyway having fun. Always makes me happy to see more tube in the air. Got an awefull lot to do. Got to get everything hooked up in the shed, trying to put a thousand taps in, and need at least seven more cords of wood. Thats coming to a halt next year. NO MORE WOOD!!!!!! Gonna hit the switch baby and TAP ALL OF RUTLAND TOWNSHIP, OH YEAH!!!!! Gotta get going, almost daylight out there. Theron:)
I've been busy with my latest toy. I bought a 28' travel trailer that I found on craigslist for $300 last Saturday and have been making the needed plumbing repairs so that I can properly winterize it. Now that I have that figured out it is back to sugaring stuff and I am going to start filling the wood shed today. I used 2.25 cords of wood to make 162 gals of syrup last year. With the planned repairs and expansion I am going to put in more this year. I think that I can get 3 cords into the woodshed and I want to have an emergency cord piled near the sugarhouse.
Russell- someday Ill have an RO,,,,,,,,,2.25 cords for 162 gallons!!!!!!!!!!72 gallons per cord!!!!!!!!
Theron great to hear from you, it has been awhile. Not sure if you got caught under a load of tubing and couldn't get back up!!
Anyway, it is now time to get my but in gear and get going. I picked up my 200gal dairy tank on Fri, awesome!!:cool:
I have to go to the local Feed mill to pick up the wire and start hanging tubing. Just not sure what size to run 3/4" or 1". Not much difference in $$$. I am leaning toward 3/4", easier to work with.
I tested my 2 bender dairy receivers and they work great. I picked up a few clear flapper style check valves for them, Now I can watch the sap come in and also dump, cool!
parker, here i am sucking wind behind you and your hurting!!! was a get day!!!
finished as much of the woodshed addition as I was hoping to yesterday- then relocated the wood shed door to accommodate the wood cart track - making cart and track are next on the list. Think we will try to build the track in sections so that we can add track as we work our way back into the wood shed. off to the sandwich fair this afternoon- best fair in NH in my opinion...
The thing is twice as fast with the right filter compared to the other one. I cannot believe I never burned up the pump. AHHHHHHHH yes life was good today.
3rdgen welcome to the new world. me and Ford have this agreement now. I don't pay them $19 bucks for filters plus what ever the oil is and they stop sending me letters once a month telling me I am due for a oil change. One of the last times they changed oil and then I did they left the ring for the old filter on the flange for the filter and screwed a new one back on. I can buy a Fram filter for 4 bucks.
We had a International dealer here that people had trouble with their work on tractors and one day a mentaly handicaped fellow they had cleaning the shop asked if he should throw what he found in the garbage away or not. Turns out the shop mec. would draw parts out of stock and just throw them away and say the work was done and send the tractor back.
Maple Crest and Parker- Come on guys that hike wasnt that bad . I am fat and out of shape and have done that hike dozens of times . -SS
Question for you guys. Ive got 4000 foot of one inch to my Booy releaser. I hooked the line up to where I am now which is 1500 feet further from that so 5500 total so far. I put a gage on it and put my pump on that line only. 27 inches at the pump how many inches you guys think Ive got at the 5500 foot mark? Theron
66000 inches maybe. But will settle for 22 inch's.
Sitting here actually boiling turnips. Trying to get this harvest stuff done so I can do something else but a guy has to eat for the winter. We have had only one frost here so far and the trees look pretty good with all the colours.
Trying for the last while to find a greenlees punch to finish off my evaporator poject but I have tried pawnshops and such and so far not much luck. really hate to rent one becasue I have to use it right away and then take it back and can't work at my lesuire.
What size punch are you looking for? Now lets have that measurement in inches.Quote:
Originally Posted by KenWP
KenWP., you need to learn how to spell colors correctly!:lol:
The re-bricking, and over the fire air system is just about done. I used two pieces of 3" irrigation pipe that I cut at 44" long. drilled fifteen holes in each pipe with a 1/2" bit. These irrigation pipes are mounted about 5 inches from the top of the arch. The 15 "feeder pipes" in each manifold are about 8 inches long and flush with the inside fire brick with a slight 10 degree downward angle. Had to use that long of feeder pipes because I double fire bricked the inside of the fire box. (probably will be able to put my tongue on the side of the arch now but why would i want to?) Now I have to fabricate the behind the fire manifold and feeder holes. I will inject air into the system with a electric leaf blower. I will just cut a slot in the main feed pipe and regulate the air with a piece of metal that can slide up and down. My buddy came the other day and took meaurements to make us a preheater above our piggy-back so hopefully we dont have any cold chambers to start out with. Once I learn how to post pictures I will post some. The state inspector came on Oct. 5th for the preliminary walk through. Don't have to change a thing witch is a good thing. Have to put more line in this fall so I don't have alot of time to make improvements to the syrup shack. Cold start to Oct. Had snow yesterday morning. 23 degrees in Northern WI. this morning. Fall sap might be running????
i have just been reading some of the post and thinking !!! how lucky we are that deer season doesn't come in march or april-------------- just a thought
good luck wit your hunting and stay safe Dick
foams, that was the warm up.to all the rest of the up and down looking for blown out manifolds.
Theron,
7,000' of 1" mainline for 300 taps, you really need help bad! I could run all my 600+ taps on vacuum that are in 3 different locations if I ran 7,000' of maline and cut threw several different properties. You are really getting bored and need to sell and buy you a couple hundred acres with 50k taps on it so you won't get bored quite so easy!
LOL! I think it great, just couldn't resist, but please tell the real truth of how much stock you own in the pipe company!
Well If you have not penetrated that mainline yet and the end is capped Im guessing 27 inches:) If you got 300 holes in it I bet your hoping 27 inches.Quote:
Originally Posted by PATheron
Been watching the temps ever so closely. Fall tapping is getting close.
Time To Get A Little Mud On The Tires, Yes that is a line from one of WV native Brad Pasiley's hit in reference to the bank finally coming thru with the loan. Well Farm Credit finally came thru and I'm ready to tube the woods I leased for next season. Should have 1600 extra taps on line for next season. All on high Vacuum, hoping for 20 gallons of sap per tap hole. If that were to happen I could pay off the loan next spring, well as long as the bubble does burst in the syrup market.
Mark 220 Maple
I need a 1 1/4 inches. That would be 31.75 mm but of course that's metric. That is the size of hole I hope to cut. It can be a tiney bit bigger and a tiney bit smaller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred Henderson
It's getting close to frost here also tonight. Have had the fire going a bit to keep me warm. She who has to be obeyed dosn't seem to ever get cold but suffers once in a while just for me.
The people at school have touques on already and winter coats. Can't wait when it's 25 or 30 below they will need a pint of booze to keep warm.
Brandon- I know, pretty terreble huh? I put the pump on it and had 24" at the 5500' mark. Now Ive got about 1500 more to go Id guess. Like Parker says youve got to WANNNNNT IT!!! Looks like there is gong to be about 350 taps on the line. Real nice ones though, had to do it. Ill have that done this week. Then I have another run to do above the shed thats Probly 4 or 5000 feet Id say that has 500 real nice ones on it. Gonna take more pump to get it done. Im going to buy a 100 cfm pump to run with the 60 Ive got and I think that should do it. I was kind of worried about having stuff done on time but Im getting pretty clever at running tubing and its going faster than I thought. Fun to experiment. Boy this weekend was beautifull to work in the woods. Gotta love fall. Theron
3rdgen, Did you tap yet?
well my buddy missed his alarm on sat and picked me up at 630 gues we werent going to get in our tree stands early enough so we decided road hunting (yes with our bows- i know it sounds smart) was our best option and we did see deer but they were on a posted field. FML our other buddy shot a doe that evening but we hunted till about 11 then we hitched up my buddies trailer to his jeep and went after a load of slab wood. since im the only one in our tight group of friends who owns a saw i cut wood for every one else, me and austin cut a cord of slabs and piled it 5feet above the rails of his trailer. brought it home split it and stacked it. he had to work at 4 so i went home and jumped in my tree stand. nothing i was walking out got out of the woods and into the field and was about 10feet away from the brook when a monster 8 point jumped out of the ravine infront of me and just about ran me over. i was awstruck for about 5 seconds then i reallized omg im supposed to shoot at that so i launched one at it about 80 yards missed by a mile, sunday was a repeat of sat just w out the monster 8 point we did shoot at some turkeys though it was fun
Been snowing here all day
snow tonight, above 1500 ft there calling for snow, well guess who that is ME! yesterday and today me and my girlfriend went up to my new sugarbush and ran 1000 ft of 3/4 inch pipe and got it all twist tied up and half one line all side tied, should be running 5/16 next weekend, still got to get out to my tree stand and blast one, maybe a bear,
hope everyone is doing good, Winter is coming fast!
Mostly rain in the Green Bay area...
got home late sunday nite with my new pans from WF MASON, they look good. also would like to thank him again for the good hospitality he gave me and my wife.
also a good word for for ANDY in BRADFORD VT. for hosting a BBQ, where i got to meet vv,peace,supersappy, tapme, gov, maplecrest, and " garlic jerry"
RICH