Dano
When you get Bigsap you will know it.
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Dano
When you get Bigsap you will know it.
DaveY BIGSAP is spelled with the caps lock on so that it stands out on the page.
Dano BIGSAP is when the sap is coming into the releaser full pipe and it is dumping at a very fast rate.
Theron keep up the good work. You are an inspiration to us all.
I almost have my new sugarbush ready for tapping. Another two or so days of running tubing, and then a day getting tanks in, shelter for the vacuum pump, etc.. Going out in the woods tomorrow, but I have two markets this weekend. So friday is bottling syrup and making sugars and cream. Had a close call monday. I was on the mountain when a good gust blew down a dead tree 15 feet from where I was standing. If a hooked connector hadn't come off of the mainline wire I would have been standing right where the tree came down. A couple seconds between smushed or not smushed!
Van, you cant be too careful in the woods. Sometimes there is nothing you can do. It doesn't hurt to be lucky.
Russ I have never been able to use that caps key. my finger wont press it.
i wouldnt know as ive never had a vacuum
but iwill find out this year with my super maples cant wait
Dano- Last year was my first year at this and I was all excited and I told everyone I wanted to get BIGSAP. I never was around vac and I couldnt wait to see how it ran. Then during the season I would get on and do BIGSAP updates. Like this is a test of the emergency BIGSAP system. Tomarrow the temperatures in the southern Maine will be condusive to a very heavy sap flow. Please be alert and be sure to have clean tanks ready and whatever you do dont spill any. Stuff like that. Ive just got a good line of bs. Jim- I was wondering about that becouse I dont think Ive ever tried both ways on gravity. When I ran buckets I always got the most sap and they were 7/16 and I think running the gravity tube I used 5/16. Never really remember trying both on the tube. Theron
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Originally Posted by Dave Y
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Originally Posted by dano2840
Whoa.
There's a book?
It's true. I learn something new here everyday!
You know Clan, the book you used to build your sugar house.
Ok you guys give Theron a break. You know if he don't tap the trees and satisfy his desires, he will be kicking himself all year saying why didn't I tap those trees. Let him have a go at it and see what happens. Of course the bush will probably do bad because he is putting my name on it. I can't hold a light for Theron or most any other guys on here even thought I may have been making syrup longer than a lot. I work full time, live close to 1/2 hour from the sugarhouse and have 2 small children, so with a busy work schedule, it makes it hard to keep up and make syrup like I could if I had more time.
Either way, we do the best we can with what we have and let the chips fall where they may.
I hope you don't throw the book at Theron!
I haven't recieved a copy of the book either.
Clan,
There is a book on everything. Some of us go by it, some don't. It can work either way.
Brandon, you know Theron is full of youthful exuberance . Some time it needs to be reigned in a little, slow down before you get a head of your self.I know he's capable of producing more maple than Canada. But he needs to work into it or he wont last long. Theron pace yourself
BIGSAP when you are pumping the water out of the swiming pool so you can use the pool to hold sap BIGSAP
filling the wood shed today finally
I do like his exuberance but normally when someone goes into anything like he is, they get burned out pretty quick and I know where you are coming from. I hate to see him sell everything and give up hunting and his other hobbies, but to each his own.
Either way, I hope he does great. Wish I had a setup like he does at his house vs 1/2 away. I could make a lot more syrup and have a lot more fun not being away from my family so much during syrup season.
Pesonally I dont care what other people do as long as they are not hurting anyone. I just like to give theron the rasberries from time to time and make him think about what he is doing. I am sure he will be fine. Right? Theron.
I know people sometime think I am going to fast also, but we all know when we need to slow down.
I know you guys like to give me some rubbing from time to time. I dont blame you. I actually like it. My motto on the syrup thing is nobody needs to be wrong. I listen to what everyone else does and go look at their stuff and just kind of go with what works for me. Steal everyones good ideas. Brandon- I think that bush I was telling you Im naming the Brandon Bush may be a real serious producer. Very good exposure and I think it may do very well just on gravity if we get much of a season. Ill go back to the hunting more when this wears off probly. Ive taken my boys hunting quite a bit this year and theyve got lots of stuff, their only 8 and 10, and the stuff Im selling I dont care that much about anyway. It allows me to pay for more of my syrup stuff cash. Im having fun and I dont care much about material things anymore. I want to set this syrup thing up as a nice business for me and my family. Good way to keep track of the kids down the line. Plus I want the BIGSAP. If I do get the other taps in think how much fun you guys will have laughing when Im swamped. At least I have an ro. Dave is the tough one. He made a ton of syrup last year without any cheating. I cheat. Theron
We enjoy giving you a hard time from time to time as you don't mind and you have a good attitude about everything and I think you have a good perspective on things. Good luck with the young ones and spend as much time with them as you can. Making syrup will teach them how to work and values in life. Before you know it, they will be gone.
Brandon- We have a great time together. Im lucky to have a very happy family. Were a good team. I was thinking today about you posting that you couldnt hold a light for me with the syrup thing and its funny how people think. I actually consider all you guys the experts. I rarely post when a new guy has questions becouse I consider the rest of you to be more knowledgable. When I came on here a year ago you guys treated me like family and I really appreciated it. I didnt know squat and mostly what I know now is from the people on this site and my buddy Richard locally. I really like it a lot coming on here every day and seeing what everyone is up to. Theron
Got up on the mountain to see the sun rise, and worked long enough to see it set. I finished retrofitting the older part of the bush and found more trees that I didn't run tubing to.
Here's an awesome update!! Oil Barrel, 38 bucks which means delivered oil UNDER 2 BUCKS LOCALLY !!!!! Now if I could fill 2 tanks up and NOT buy Xmas gifts I would be going oil FULL STEAM AHEAD!!
Gotta look at the funds and see if I can make the 1000 dollar Purchase
Save all the wood I cut to dry totally for 2010 season
I have around 10+cord and growing. free pine coming again, I'll take and burn what I can! it all burns
Just waiting for my Arch board and hoping to start bricking next week!
Power is still out, doesn't affect woods work though. hung some laterals today.
Funny how a day can disappear in a blink doing outside work, and the clock never moves when doing inside work.
Dean
Guys,
I feel Jim(mapleman) is getting really soft on us all of the sudden. What's he going to do when he gets old. All this nice wood split and drying and he wants to spend a grand to buy oil. LOL!
Ahh Oil... flip the switch and bubbling goodness!! and more time to tweak and keep the quality control on the front burner!!
Soft? no but still a bit leary of more taps/more sap/bigger evap/WOOD?
When I'm so used to
oil
Jim you just want to be able on your computer while boiling. That won't be as easy to do when you have to fire the evaporator every 5 to 8 minutes.
Baton down the hatches boys and get the plows hooked up!!!!
Here we go .......... some more snow!!
Forecast is for 6" - 12" here!
The problem is that there is still alot of folks out of power and this is not going to help the effort!
I have one appointment this morning and then I am going to come home and watch it from this side of the window!
Everyone stay safe out there today!!
It's going to be a "WHITE CHRISTMAS."
Dave
Hittin the lines again starting tonight. Hoping to finish my side of the road. You guys need to cross your fingers for me my truck brings some good money. I want to get that Brandon bush in bad. Hope I can finish across the road by end of the month. Think there are between 7 and 800 over there. Talked to my good buddy Richard yesterday hes thinkin good season this year with the weather what it is. He upgraded his ro just so he doesnt have to worry about gettting behind. 6000 gallon per hour. You guys think Im a nutcase. Theron
Theron,
We don't think you are a nut case! We know you are! Hey good luck pulling lines. My work has come to a stand still. I am waiting on a few more rolls of tubing. Hope to get them this weekend. We are in the middle a snow and ice storm. I hope we fair better than our brothers in New England did last week end.
Theron it is cool to hear that you are going after those other trees, just make sure you have your swimmies on come Feb!
If you do get that bush done for this year how are you going to get it back to the sugar shack? Use the 4wheeler?
Or are you going to put a tank in the back seat of the car!!
I hope I can make it up your way once my season is over but before your season winds up. I want to see the tsunami of sap coming into that sugar shack.
Theron,
Of course you are a nut case. Just about everyone on here is! Who else would be talking in August about making maple syrup ?
You do take it to a new level, however! Shall we nominate you as chief squirrel?
Funny how Richard can make more syrup in ONE HOUR than 90% of the trader members can make in an entire season of work! LOL!
Brandon- Its amazing to watch that guy make syrup. He just stands there and it just comes off and through the press and into barrells. Im going to have to figure out how to do that too. I think at some point Im going to get an autodraw and a new press maybe that will run continuously like that. Its air powered. Make it a lot easier than the way I do it now. Fun to go see. Dennis- I think for little runs Ill use my four wheeler and make some trips. Its so close to the house wouldnt take long. If I get some big runs maybe Ill get dads tractor. I could haul a lot that way on good days. What I need to get soon is a real beefy truck. Ill figure out what to do with it when I get it. Theron
Its not that hard to make huge amounts of syrup per hour, as it is to pay for the equipment to do it. When I used to boil on 17000 taps and a 5x14 oil fired with 4000 gallons an hour of RO we made 130 to 140 an hour. Of course it was going in a about22 to 24 percent. It makes a huge difference.
802,
I see you have changed your signature . You are around my age. And I am far from over the hill just near the top.
Yeah right I am on top looking both ways, I think I will go back to the other side, I liked it better there. Not so many hip replacements and Back surgeries on that side.
802, when you made that much , you must have a warehouse full of barrels with syrup in them!! where do you put it all during the season??
man auto draw off [I]new[I] filter press ahhahahahaha im getting a new evaporator i dont need all that fancey technology ahahahahah:D
but that doesnt mean i dont want it...................:(
Theron,
If you have a truck of any size or a tractor and the going is easy, you can't beat a small trailer. If you have a 5x8 or 5x10 trailer or even larger, you can easily haul 400 gallon of sap in one with a 5,000 lb rear end. Easy to step up in, doesn't wear out the truck/equipment nearly as bad and you can pick up a good well built trailer like that for under $ 1,000. Even a bigger trailer, you could haul even more pending your truck would handle it. A 5x10 with 400 gallon of sap would go less than 4500 lbs fully loaded with sap including weight of trailer, so wouldn't be to difficult for about any truck to handle and the trailer would outlast 2 or 3 trucks and more than pay for itself in the wear it saves on the truck. Bigger HD truck, more sap hauling capacity.
Wish I could pull a trailer but all my tanks are in the woods and hard to get to. I could pick up my sap quicker.
Auto drawoff, that would be nice in the future pending I keep making syrup.
I'm actually doing that this season, I can't afford to buy a several thousand dollar farm truck so I will run 2 trailers, one behind the wifes van for the roads and one behind my 4x4 dakota for the sugar woods road, they plow it, but I want my 4wheel drive just in case..... I figure the 500 gal on the trailer and a 200 gal in the bed of the truck but not fill them up!!!
Brandon- You just gave me a great idea. Im selling my truck becouse its antique and its worth quite a bit of sap line but I pull a trailer with my car all the time to haul my riding mower. Ill use that. Its an 01 lincoln continental, got a hell of a radio too. Drink holder, ash tray, thatll work great. Ill get you guys a pic. I think my good trailer is 2000 lbs and I have a woods trailer I could use thats heavier. I only have to go up a dirt road about a mile. Theron
Lincoln sapcar.... a new model !! see ford doesn't need to be bailed out!