November Journal

SS,
No survey yet. Supposedly all members of the state assn. are to get one.
Guess they are looking into the feasability of a bottling plant in NY.

Peace-

Those drums are 1/2 price. Nice thing is you can fit more on a trailer, so it is a double whammy.

No sailer jerry yet. Russ just got me a bottle of captain this weekend. I'm not a machine. I will try sailer soon enough.

I think my body is just getting back to normal after that LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ride to Doug's(thompson's tree farm). Thanks for the tour and you have some serious potential there, just time and money need to be added to the mix and syrup should be the end result. Wait till I get my pump running before you crank that sucker up. I want a little water left in the ground for my trees.

The deer are liking the results of operation devistation. I saw alot of tracks out there the other day. Now if I can get some of the wood out, maybe I can go in there and harvest a wall hanger.

I'm sure it is like anything but the guys from NH in Russ's neighborhood sure weren't the ones you had in NY super sappy. Holy moly. It was like WWII in his area and unless they had alot of tags to fill there are alot of maples and hemlocks with wounds.

My brother and I worked all day in the pouring rain on Saturday to stretch lines in our upper bush. At 10 C above freezing it was better to stretch in the rain than try to do it in the spring.

Saturday evening we packaged up the last of our 2008 syrup. We got a large order for 100mL plastic and 250mL glass plus some other misc sizes that drained us. I wish we had more to sell but it's also nice to know we can focus on getting the bush ready for next spring.

Yesterday we also got the mainline up for the upper part of our sap ladder. All I need to do is get a few fittings for the vertical pipe and it's ready to go. We also replaced about 300' of black mainline that was almost 30 years old.

Ennis,

For your sap ladder, are you running the stars with 5/16ths between? How far, and how many taps are you lifting?

Thanks,
Tim

Ennis
I also have a couple of questions. How much vacuum do you need to lift say 40-60 taps 6-8 feet?(we have about 25 inches when running) and how many ladders can a person run when you have 4-500taps on the same vac system?

I know about as much about sap ladders as a pig knows about Sunday!other than you use 6 ways top and bottom and 5/16 in between. thats my entire knowledge about sap ladders.

Thanks


Jim

I've been paying attention and there was a link in the Vacuum section with a thread called "lift" started by PATheron/Better known as nailed in a coffin. :D

I also know nothing about sap ladders, but would like to. Can anyone take a few pics of theirs, or sketch one and upload the diagram?? THANKS

Royal maple has videos of his in his video link..

The crew of team sap had a meeting today, The two parties walked away with some big numbers, and plans, to take to the bean counters, and see what happens.. looks very promising to raise the connectuit river with permiate in the very near future... tap counts could be a issue, due to the fact we don't have enough fingers and toes to go that high,even counting them by the thousand, but we will eventually call in the big guns from PA to help us count... Stay tuned for more breakling news, as it happens...

hey great foamy how did u make out today ... 5 dollar fix on jens tire and back up and running ...yippie