January Journal

Delbert- Like the sap filter, nice touch. Theron

I have the wood shed all done just need to fill it with wood hopefully this weekend.I will be finishing my ash box with a drawer.This should keep all the ash away from my wood floor.It is all steel that will be bolted to the arch when it fills up with ash just pull it out and empty it.Got the arch rebuilt last weekend should be able to set it all up this weekend.Im running out of time so I need to get moving.Anyone out there tap yet?

Got everything picked up in the sugarhouse and cleaned everything up today. All that is left is clean the head tank and plumb back up to the evaporator. It was too early when I finished up and seasonably warm (25 deg.), so I thought I would head to the woods and add the rest of my lats for this year. Got half way down the mainline and saw a bunch of lats down. Looks as if the tree rats were having a pretty good feast. :mad: Well, ran the lats that I wanted to, came home and made a bunch of new drops up. Tomorrow I will head out and start to fix the damaged lines and put drops in. Time is ticking.

thanks ron..tonight,i,ve been down in the wood shop building a sap filter basket for my storage tank...i,ll let the sap dump out of the releaser into that and then pump it up into my head tank thu the whole house filter.

delbert

What a great day. It was a nice warm 36 and spent the day in the woods plowing out tractor paths and sugarhouse. Then spent the rest hanging more mainline and placing an order with Bascoms to finish up the vac setup. Replaced the idler sprockets and sepentine belt on my truck also. Bearings were making a whining noise and showed some slop. Got called into work at 8pm ran to the city and on the way home I hear some bad noise. Upper idler spun right off the bearing and basically blew up along with the new belt. I hate NAPA always have and yet I bought the crap there. Stupid. They better refund my money.

More snow today. got everything done just time for a bunch of wire to short out and melt together in the tractor. Isn't that awe-some!!! Well gonna call john deere see if they sell a completed wire set-up with plugs and stuff if not I'll be running wires later today. yippee!!! stupid safety switch on engaging lever pinched a wire. Stupid safety switches anyway.

Taking a couple days off from maple and jumping on a snowmobile. Hope to put on a couple hundred miles the next two days! Then the last minute push begins

Got the roof on the woodshed yesterday, now I just have to fill it. And probably cut a door between the shed and the evaporator. But I have a feeling I'm just going to get bored while boiling and attack the wall separating the 2 with a chainsaw.
The water pump on my bucket tractor is on the way out and fast. Good thing the warranty expired last month.

Today I snow blowed again :o. Yesterday I got the evaporator bricked. Now all that is left to do is install the chimney and do a test boil.

Sargeant Pierce,
I'm packing up for operation mushroom cloud. Loading the family huckster and headed out around 10 a.m. and will be arriving at target sight at about 3:30 p,m.

General Masterson