i have had so much bed luck getting ready for this syrup season i about ready to throw in the towel and call it done and go south till april
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i have had so much bed luck getting ready for this syrup season i about ready to throw in the towel and call it done and go south till april
It was beautiful today! 30's and sunny. Got me so excited I went home and put a tap in. It was 5PM, 32F out and the sap was dripping out the spile as I set it. Hopefully tomorrow I will report BIG SAP. You guy's to the south might be missing something.
Good luck guy's!
-8 and wind blowing like crazy good freeze for the trees
So what did you do in the afternoon? hehehehe..... You must be a tired camper! We pulled 2000 feet of 1.5" dryline from our pump to the releaser and tied it to the mainline in a single day last winter and it almost killed 2 of us. The 4' of snow didn't help.Quote:
Originally Posted by maplecrest
just off work heading to the woods to put up some tubing hope to finish it tomorrow after the the meeting all the buckets are washed tanks are out in place battiers are on the charger bites are sharp just watching the weather and waiting on the vac pump may have to make a few changes if the season comes befor the vac pump kinda hard to make sap go up a ladder with out vac mite have to try out my idea of the air lift will see
Started expansion of my third sugar bush this afternoon. I'm only planning on adding a hundred taps, but that's another barrel of syrup. Got my new/used vacuum pump all setup. Ran it for two hours this morning at 19" with air only coming in through the regulator and it only got warm to the touch.
We're still in the deep freeze around here. I thought it was going to be warm today, but it didn't get above 20 all day. That's okay. It'll get here in March or April....
cut in 1170 drops today and started putting in multi fittings and wire tieing at the same time. still dizzy from the main line. have not put out the dry line yet waiting on wire #9 wire
I took advantage of a warm day and got 4 tanks washed after work today. the weather is supposed to turn cold again tomorrow. I hope to get a few more things accomplished this weekend. tapping time is a month off and i still have plenty to do. Most of it is around the sugar house. I do have about two days of work left in the bush. But those are easy days.
Just spent a busy 2 weeks bustin butt setting up a new sap line. With the aid and assistance of fellow Maple Trader, Jason Grossman. we stretched over 9000 feet of wire and plastic, installed 2 sap ladders and 1 sap lift. There will be about 750 new taps. Just gotta get the pump, releaser and tanks set up. With these taps and the additions I have made in my established bush I will be tapping about 2500, 1000 more than last year, I anticipate buying sap from about 1000 taps also so it looks like BIG SAP in Northern New York this Spring.
Thank You Jason!
Doug