like my dad said it is his 25th year of being 20
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like my dad said it is his 25th year of being 20
3rd of January was a good day to be born Chris. Hope it was a happy one.
My fathers father was born on yesterdays date 1898. He was quite the man. Not a sugar maker tho. I'm the first in my family.
I have all my droplines in except for a few stranded trees that i will work on next week. As I am off to the NY maple conference tomorrow about noon. If any of you folk would like to say howdy I will be the only Dave from Marienville Pa there. I plan on stopping on the way home sunday to look at some stainless to put in the woods. Six weeks till the season starts. I can smell the maple already.
Hey Chris are you taking anything to the Farm Show?
It looks like this is going to be the second year in a row that we will not have typical Farm Show weather(Rain, sleet, snow, ice, all the above).
If you are taking something to the show I will have to stop in to take a look, I work less than 1/2 mile form the show, and with working nights I can swing in right after work.
I was thinking of stopping by to look at a small grain auger to help speed up transfer of the coal from the pickup to the coal bin in the basement.
well we spent the hole day in the bush running main line we got 300 feet up today and we got the barrels in place so tomorrow we got 200 feet more to go then we got to go back and run 5/16th line so much to do and so little time till school starts again
patheron, theron and matt, royalmaple came to visit today stayed three hours and helped me a little THANK YOU. had a great visit!!! good luck on your season with your new vac systems. i think we all learned something today.
Eastern West Virginia,South of the Mason Dixon
Less than a month to syrup season, just a reminder. "There is only two seasons, Syrup Season and Getting Ready for Syrup Season". That is one of favorite quotes from a fellow syrupmaker who past away last year. Mr. Garnett Whetzel of Mathias, West Virginia.
Mark 220 Maple
Getting colder here in Central KY with a little warm up expected this coming week and then back colder again. I may tap next week, looks to be 4-6 days of good suagring weather ahead during next weekend. ONly problem is my wife is going away next weekend which leaves me with the kids (3 years and 16 months). I do not know how they would do collecting sap for three hours. I may enlist the help of some youth from our church to help for the weekend-I don't want to miss the first big run of the season.
ON another note, our local paper called (Jessamine County Journal) and they wanted to do a front page story on our syrup business. They are coming out to watch us tap one day, and then will come back another day when we're gathering and boiling. This will be great PR and free advertising - I'm hoping this will bolster our sales in the local area.
I love the anticipation - my drill is still charging.
Andrew
Andrew
I was reading somewhere,,,cant remember where,,mabey in the Nearing's book,,that quite a bit of syrup used to be made in the south,,,suprised me,,good that some are carring on the tradition,,(south of the Mason Dixion line),,is there much hard maple down there or is it very rare?
Bottled syrup yesterday, first batch for the new year, too bad I had to buy bulk. Cleaned out my tanks for the ro, and got my vacuum pumps sucking good. I've got two page list of fittings to get today from lowes and tsc. Going tomorrow to get another releaser, defoamer, filters, etc.. This time of year money goes out pretty quick. New tires for the truck, another gas engine and quick couplings from northern, money money money. Plus gas yesterday. Weather here looks sunday to next saturday for sap flow. Still thinking on that.... but after paying for syrup! If I get much syrup to sell bulk this year I'm holding on to it at least till fall.
Van,
Why would you want to sell bulk when you are selling so much in retail??