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I just finished fine tuneing my Trigger finger. Every year just before big game season I shoot some sporting clays. I shoot and the wife loads and trips the thrower. However she is being to catch onto how that thrower works. She has now learned how to make them go right or left,high or low. But I would not want to go thru life without her, what a great asset to our sugaring operation she is.
Ogdon's Sugar Bush,
If you stop at Kevins house, he's just down the road from me, have him bring you up.
I'd like to check out your new toys.
Dave
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Give the GOV a call and hook up with him to meet everyone for breakfast friday morning and a board meeting at vv,s place in vt
RICH
It seems like more and more of us are getting back into the swing of sugaring making those needed changes and additions etc. Since fall is hear it won't be long before frost begins to go into the ground. I need to pour some concrete fpr the legs on my 1500 gal milk tank I bought and get some other things done before winter.
Keith
You better be out there hunting in the rain because the deer have learn that when it rains the white man goes inside. I use to use tree stands but now I use ground blinds,waterproof also. Get them out early so the deer get use to seeing them.Good luck.
Fred you better believe I have been hunting in the rain. I just HATE to bowhunt in the rain cause of tracking a shot deer. The chances of losing a blood trail increases way beyond the comfort factor. I have seen more deer in the woods hunting this year than I did all last bow season. I pheasant and grouse hunted today with the dog since it was almost 70 and sunny. She kept looking at me all week with sad eyes so I felt guilty and took her out not to mention I felt like a little bird hunting myself. Towards the end of the hunt she was not acting right but was hunting hard when I would tell her to find the birds but she would come back to quick. Brought her home and within the hour she was not walking on all 4's. Her paw is swollen pretty bad and after examining it she must have gotten stabbed in the foot pretty good. There is a nice hole clear from the bottom to just underside of the skin on top of her foot that is big enough to put a pencil in. I got the foot doctor kit for hunting dogs out and patched her up. Off to the vets on monday if things don't look better then. What a way to ruin her day. Gonna get some maple stuff done tomarrow weather forecast is looking good again.
- are you going to have your evaporator at the meeting? I need something to cook sweet corn in. See you there -SS
as i was taking nice big chunks of oak yesterday and turning them into wrist size pieces i relized this for every cord us sugarmakers split its like 3 cords of house wood for a normal chunk we wack it in to 3 ..so if yesterday i split and stacked 1/2 a cord the amount or the number of pieces if all where stove size would have made cord and a half lol
which then brought on this discussion with my old friend Joe
he sates that a stack of sugar wood split all to wrist size is less wood then a woodstove size split stack for in my stack theres more air space
i say bull a cords a cord but if anything i get more wood per cord cause i can stack it tighter
this comes from the guy who has to cut his house wood to beer can size to fit his stove and states 3 rows of wood for my stove is the same as a cord and i say cords a cord man
Peace,
If you were weighing it, a ton is a ton, but if you are splitting cord wood, a cord is not necessarily a cord. The smaller you split it, the bigger pile it will make. You may be able to pack it tight but not as tight as it was when it was a single piece. I didn't believe my Grandpa 50 years ago but he showed me....
It was said to me years ago by and old timer that you gain on wood per cord when you split it. Well of course he was right.
I hardly split my sugarhouse wood at all. It's all small enough to put right in the evaporator. We had a lot of pre-commercial thinnings we used the last couple of years, then when they cut our woodlot they brought "sticks" down on the skidder plow so we're using that small stuff. I also pick up a lot of wood at the town brush pile when I go with the trash and recycling.
I don't believe in burning really good hardwood in the evap. It would get spoiled. We burn anything except no nails, no paint and no pressure treated.
A couple of years ago my friend brought over a chair that he thought was great. It had a big split in the seat which pinched my butt, so the next time he came over he asked about the chair as I was feeding the last piece of it into the evaporator.