Is Verona really next week end??? January 8th and 9th????
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Is Verona really next week end??? January 8th and 9th????
Well making it around the woods on crutches easier than I thought after knee surgery. Only a couple inches of snow on the ground and most places I need to work I can drive right up to on the ATV. Retightened a few lines and put a couple isolation valves in my mainline branches so I can find leaks easier. Ran tube to about 100 more taps. Going to overload the 2X6 this year thats for sure. Will be some long days boiling but I can't wait! I will have over 1000 gallons of storage at the sugarhouse and 300 gallons in the woods at the pump station. Probably only 6 weeks left before the drill fires up.
Another day in the sugar shack, most interior plumbing is done except setting the fixtures. Two thirds of the paneling is done. Found a small furnace in my shop today that I din't know I had. All in all a real good day. Unfortunately I think tomorrow will be dedicated to snow removal. 11" and counting so far, and supposed to snow all night and all day tomorrow. National Weather Service is predicting another 8" to 12" before it is done. Good luck to all others in coping with the storm. Revi come on over most any time. I am usually around most weekends.
Spent a few hours yesterday splitting wood, but ran out of space to stack it. Still have about 1.5 cords to split, but I have plenty on hand though. I have a lot of aluminum buckets that have lids too small for the galvanized buckets. So today I sorted them all out, separated, and marked the aluminum only ones-sure will beat digging through a pile to find the right ones come tapping day. Also cleaned all the taps and got them ready. All that is left to do is replace the pan gaskets and I am ready to go. Should only be a few more weeks here.
my wife is offically sick of hearing about maple!!!! everytime I bring it up she rolls her eyes. I told her I haven't been on the computer in a few days and she was like "oh what you must be going through... No mapletrader for 3 whole days!!!!" and she was right!!
burned through 2 tanks of gas on the saw yesterday on some pine (sick of being in the house eating junk) after you move pine logs around for a bit you forget how heavy oak is... went to bring some wood in the house wow that s heavy!!!
here it is I am naming it.. maple drink:
the sap boiler
1 oz maple liquer...(flag hill lee NH)
1/2 oz white creme de cocoa
1/2 oz dark or grade B syrup
put over ice shake or stir what ever you prefer
mmmmm good stuff if you like it a little less sweet just leave out the cocoa
I learnt my lesson. I don't say much about maple or school or Lodge anymore. Just sort of keep quiet and eat supper.
That drink will either rot off your teeth or give you another kind of addiction. I never thought of useing maple in a drink before.
I have been working outside when ever I can trying to catch up on my evaporator repair. Found out the hard way that slow is better then trying to do something fast. Takes a lot of time to fix mistakes.
Tapping time ... best cure for cabin fever around.
I have been tying up a bunch of loose ends, I only have about 4 weeks to tapping time.
I now have the new feed tank complete and plumbed in. I have a small elec pump that will pull from my milk tank and fill the feed tank. I have a float switch that will make that whole operation automatic.
I also have the pipe in that I will use to pump the sap from the tank in the car to the milk tank. I will be using some nice hose with camlock's to make it quick and simple.
I put in new pan gasket and have finished the firebrick grates that I switched to this year, man was that a lot of holes to drill!!
I managed to do a lot of inside stuff, it is just way to cold to do anything outside, with the windchill in is single digits.
Anyone in need of snow I have an unlimited supply that just keeps coming and coming. Should be plowing 6 driveways right now but they are gonna have to wait till morning. Been on call since thursday and have limited sleep. Want to get the paths in the sugarbushes cleaned out as well. Farmers almanac was wrong on this winter. I gave up tallying snowfall. have to be above 100 inches already. Will be pulling taps with a ladder at this rate.
how many taps you have on Vac so far Dennis?