Sugarmaster, He likes to be on top of things. I am going to get tapped the help him get his taps out.
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Sugarmaster, He likes to be on top of things. I am going to get tapped the help him get his taps out.
just got back from 9 hours in the bush i got 20 more taps up and i brought my camra and toke 60 or so pic's i just finished putting them on photobucket pics of the new mainline pics of the older one pics of the slope on of were i an working the slope is like every 100 feet out it drops 60 feet it make for a really hard job walking in 6"of snow climbing up a 35 degree slope cover in branch under the snow if you slipe on one you go all the way to bottom and start going back up again so my leg are very tired but can't wait to do it all over again tomorrow
ws ay one noticed tht this is the longest journal that we have ever hade
I guess leaving the rocks and dirt in would give it more of an earthy flavor. So might be closer to orgainic.
Just got back in the house. Had to run the head lamp to finish up. Glad I dug it out this morning before I left. As luck would have it my snowmobile's head light is out. That is always a trick to hammer out of the woods in pitch black. Got the 1 1/4 pipe all tied to the wire and started doing some side tying of the wet and dry lines. Man that 1 1/4 pipe is a bugger when it's cold. It does not want to give in, but I won.
Its starting to shape up down there. Tomorrow I'll have it all side tied and hopefully right to grade and put that to bed. THen onto some latteral main lines and start adding on the taps. Certainly putting on the miles. Its about 1/2 mile from start to finish on this new wet dry line. I've been walking up and down it like 6-8 times a day. I know toughen up Matt.
Spent the afternoon out in the woods working on tying in laterals and drop lines. Had a Piliated woodpecker hammering a way near me for an hour or two. He found a dead pine with something good in it. It was cool but one of the more comfortable days in a long time to be working out in woods. That extra daylight is beginning to make a difference. Had my wife watching a horse sale online this afternoon while I was out. The mare we wanted sold for $12,500. No we did not buy her!
That new vacuum pump came with a note book of instructions and a DVD. Everything spelled out clearly. Certainly a new trend for maple equipment. Some different then the standard "put in place and it'll work fine, simple, no one ever had any trouble yet, couldn't be any easier."
Matt, I know what you mean by walking back and forth while putting up mainline.
It is always nice to have a helper, but you never do. you should have started your project back in october, you would be done by now.
I flagged about 3600 ft of new mailine today. Getting ready for the next season. You can never be to prepared
Dave Y,
Take a breath:) Just love hearing you progress with your maple systems. Keep up the good work! Going to put Marionville Maple on the map!
Chris
802 Maple and his wife stopped in today and had breakfast with us and checked out our setup. It was fun visiting with them and Jerry gave me some real nice compliments on my tubing setup which were some nice compliments for Sugarmaster as well becouse it was he and his men that designed my whole setup. Now Ill have to do my part and make it happen. Hope everyone is having good luck getting ready becouse I think the weather is going to be good this year. I just looked on the 15 day forecast and its mainly cold till feb 9th at least. Way better than all that early warm weather. Better have anything that will hold sap ready becouse Im feeling lucky. I think this is going to be a humdinger year. Theron
Dave-
That was my plan back in Oct. but some paying jobs came in at the wrong time. Right time for bills etc, but wrong time for maple schedule.
Then with all the snow and garbage trying to get that big barn siding job done that really ate into my available time. I'm doing pretty good now that I am devoting some time to tubing etc. I'll get there. Main thing is pump will be on electricity, sap is coming to the road.
Now just add taps till it's time to drill, then take a day of drilling then add more taps till I run out of season, trees, or money.
More than likely I'll run out of money well before I run out of season and the trees are certainly in no short supply.
Sugarmaker,
I did take a breath today at around 2pm I put a new flue pipe on the stove in my fur shed. then I went to the bush and Farted around. I am always planning.if you are not moving you are standing still and you cant gain on anything that way.