Theeeeron,
you are a nut!!!
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Theeeeron,
you are a nut!!!
chris part time job this is all i do have not really worked sence befor x-mas
weather looks good will go out around 4 to see how they ran got a line on a 3x10 raised flue grimm hood and preheater for next year if it make my sugar house home i will be looking for about another 2000 taps for next year
Dave- I hope you have lots of wood with all those buckets! I still question that 25" of vac will beat those things. How much syrup are you hoping to make this year with all those taps? Do you have enough tanks to keep ahead of it till you get caught up with the boiling? Hopefully next week youll be lighting a fire with the weather warming up better get those suckers hung. Theron
Theeeron,
I have 31cords of wood and about 8,000 gals of storage.Once I light afire this year It wont go out till the season is over. I am going to have to hire a man to run the evaporator while I sleep and days I will be forced to go to my day job. I already have about 6 people on the pay roll be sides my volunteers. Just so you will sleep easier tonite, I put out 300 taps after work today.
Dave- Thats what I wanted to hear. 300 buckets- 1200 gallons of sap, now were talkin. Your poor evap is going to be getting some payback. What do you do if you have to shut down for cleaning sand and stuff like that or do you have a spare syrup pan? Your neighbors are going to be wondering what the heck is going on over there. Therell still be steam in June. I dont know If I should hope for a good year for you or not. If you get a good year you get lots of money but your going to be darn near dead by summer. You need a great big rig with a free source of fueloil or something. You ever look into burning waste oil or that kind of thing? Then you could get a super big evap with guns and do it fast but not go bankrupt. Seems like you could get tons of waste motor oil or somehow burn the cooking oil. They pretty much give those big rigs away just need some cheap fuel. Theron
Theeeeeron your killing me with sap envy. Weather here does not open up to tapping till end of month I wanna TAP trust me I REALLY WANNA TAP. I just don't wanna boil snow. If you are missing any sap in that little tank you have it is NOT LEAKING it could be in my holding tank. If I could only figure out how to get it here I would rid you off that evil sap you have on vac. Kidding aside I'M JEALOUS. Keep us sapless bums updated.
3rdgen- Ill keep you guys updated but were shut down for now. Be pretty quiet probly till middle of next week. Then Ill get some BIGSAP updates going. Like to keep you guys psyched up. Theron
Treeeeeeron,
300 taps not 300 buckets. the buckets wont go out until after the tubing is tapped. I tapped buckets first last year and ended up with 500 blocks of ice. I don't want that to happen this year. as far as waste oil or veggie oil goes there aren't enough places around here to collect any of those products.besides the only way i am going away from wood is when my kids put me in the nursing home, and that aint happening as I will die first!
DaveY- HARDCORE!!!! THE BUCKETMASTER!!! I LOVE IT!!! There is a 6x18 in the latest Maplenews for $1200,,Stainless pans to boot,,802-461-7664, I just saw the ad,,never seen the rig,,,but that would give you a littel R&R,,,or time for MORE BUCKETS!!!
I like that BUCKETMASTER thing. Someone tells me their running a thousand buckets I sit up and take notice. Thats SERIOUS! Ive told Matt what buckets will do down here and he shakes his head. I used to have a tree when I was a kid that would fill 3 4 gallon ones before I got home from school and then do it again that night maybe. Sap was running into the bigbelly this morning. It was 33 degrees but had been like that most of the night I think. May get some today. Only going to be 35 but thats all it takes if its already thawed out. West wind too. Took 3 nights off Parker gotta try to get back at it. Lots to do. Got to get back to WANNNNNNNNNNTIN IT! Theeeeron