Gary,
In the same boat as you, everything was sold when I called.
Jim
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Gary,
In the same boat as you, everything was sold when I called.
Jim
Somebody made a killing on the stuff. Whats the evaporator worth. Might tell you what the other stuff went for.
worked on plumming the vacuum pump and and get all the stuff in the line. showed the wife she said what the hell is that????
finish that up today and ry to get the tanks lowered enough to get the releaser in there. so I don't have to move my main line. but its windy and cold...but I gotta get r done. want to finish everything by Wednesday!!!
I was wondering how many of you northern producers have to tap on snowshoes? We have 32" of new snow on the ground and I have 6500 holes to drill in the next few weeks. No warm up in site either. How well do snowshoes work? Is there any particular brand that may be better then the other? I see some of the maple supply catalogs have them.
Got the rest of the wood in the woodshed and repaired some tubing. Pieces and parts are cleaned to put the evaporator back together. Need to rinse a couple of tanks and put some tubing up in a small piece of woods and that should do it for prep work. If time permits I have a man door to put in toward the woodshed but that may wait till the end of the season.
Jim
don't need it here this year going out in regular work boots. what ever snow is left in the woods is frozen solid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalo Creek Sugar Camp
But I got mine in sam's club for $69.00 with a bag and poles. used them twice this year:( once you get used to them they are easy just take wide turns or you'll fall.
I'm thinking its too windy to do the stack setup this morning.
So moving house wood into the wood shed. That needs to be filled before the season. My wife operates on the "magic woodshed principle". It just needs to magically have wood in there when she needs it. No idea how it happens.
Maybe haul a couple more pickup loads of slabs. Don't know why I've been using the small saw, but the last load yesterday I brought the 372 and just cut all the way through the pile. Dropped loading time to 15 minutes or so.
I had a person dump my buckets of sap and pull out all of my spiles today, I am considering electrifying aluminum buckets at this point. I have had this happen at least three times this year and it's only february! Anybody have a suggestion to deter anymore destructive people, this is just getting ridiculous. Thanks if you have any ideas, I need them.
Jeremy, Tried a bunch of diff. snowshoes through the past sugaring seasons and the best that I would suggest are the army/marine surplus ones. They are magnesium with cable webbing. very tough in the brush. The other ones I tried never held up.
jmb setup a trail camera high in a tree aimed at your buckets. When you get the picture of the person notify the police and show them the picture.
Sounds like you got a tree hugger on your hands.
thats terrible. I like 3rdgen idea. is it your property? if so then also tresspassing. but I would notify the police.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmbinventions
Why do you think they are dumping buckets and pulling taps? Are they kids being stupid or could it be more calculated than that?
I just ordered a set today off of ebay. Hopefully I will have them by next weekend so I can start tapping. I am well south of you, but in the same boat as you and more snow on the way this week and no warmup in sight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalo Creek Sugar Camp
You can get an inexpensive pair of snowshoes from Campmor.com. They have red feather that are not the best but will work for under 100 dollars. If you order they ship in like less than 24 hours -I have used this company for 20 years and never a problem -SS
just came in from re-adjusting the main line...had to move it up about 1 foot. What a suck job that was. it was plumbed for gravity tubing but now the relaser sits a bit higher so I had raise it all up. but its done...vacuum is all plumbed to releaser and and the pump is mounted just have to run the wires tomorrow pick some oil and hopefully do a little test run!!! :) want ot be done with everything by wednesday (I hope). then I can relax a bit maybe get in a little more ice fishing before the season starts.
gotta run to get food for the game (getting junk food from applebees this year) just me the wife and kids. last year I had some folks over and did the BBQ galore...smoked brisket(smoked it for 10 hours best I ever made) ribs, pulled pork. smoked sweet potaoes, green beens with chorizo sausage. and lots and lots of beer!!!
the year before was south of the border. enchilada, nachos, mini burritos, tacos.
this year I am having a year off.
Made some progress this weekend...things are looking up for the season. Yesterday I replaced the used mainline from last year and ran a 3/4" mainline to the releaser.
Today I finished my sap ladder (photos coming soon in my photobucket page)and got my 2 mainlines hooked to the releaser. I also got the LR vac. pump running, which for the most part was a success, minus a minor issue.
Next weekend I just need to get last years mainline/tubing system back up to snuff and I can start running more mainline and tubing.
We usually tap in snowshoes. We find the tap holes are about 2 or 3 feet higher up when we go to untap them. The snow helps with those taps that are really high so you don't need a ladder. It's a lot harder to get around with them, but it adds to the adventure.
We had a lot of problems with vandalism last year. I reccomend a game camera. Hide it some place they can't see it and see if you can catch them in the act.
We have two camera systems, lexan on the windows, plate steel on the door and a bulletproof box in front to protect the evaporator now.
I told the cops who it was, but without proof they can't do anything.
We'll see if we can get some proof. If we get anything we're prosecuting.
Well my sister and I went out in the woods to check on the lines and see what kind of damage we had to deal with. I must say it wasn't that bad. We have to cut three trees off the lines and make some adjustments to the lines but I think we are in really good shape! Can't wait to get things done and start tapping!!:)
glad to see im not alone in this thinking, i had borrowed a tubing tool a few years back and when using it wasnt thrilled with the blade and its sharp edge near my fingers, so when i copied the tool to make my own i left off the blade and use a pair of battery cable cutters that cut the tube clean and easy, i like that much better!Quote:
Originally Posted by maplwrks
Folks,
I hung some tubing while the sun was shining. Nice to get out and do a little light work. These tubing runs ( about 25 taps) are rolled up and hung in the sugar house for the summer. Generally I can hang about 100 taps in a hour. I should have all the tubing up by the weekend. so if the weather breaks we can tap. Did find one week spot from a fitting that was not formed all the way during molding. I replaced that tee and should be good to go.
Hope things are good to all traders out there!
Regards,
Chris C.
With or without snowshoes - nothing more exhausting than tapping in 2-3' of soft snow. Did that a few seasons ago - that was a workout. Hope that you get some warm/sun and tap the next cold morning when everything is firmed up.
What are you doing messin around with my wife? Got to be her . Can't be two just alike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dill
I got the new tubing installed yesterday. 100 feet of main line and 500 feet of 5/16. I have another run of 5/16 line (10 taps) to be added to the end of the main line. I thought I would be done by noon but I spent from 8am to 5 pm putting this all in. This is my first year doing tubing, well doing it so it can stay up year round. anyways here is a picture of some of the new tubing. It is a work of art......
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I did mess up one of the main wire connections that will need to be fixed, I think it will have to wait until next year.
Dane.
Dan,
Looks like your on the right track!
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Originally Posted by danno
At this point, I don't have a choice. Between 2 and 3 feet on the ground and a bunch more forecasted for tomorrow and Wed. I had already made syrup at this point last year and this year, not even sure when we will be able to tap. We so much snow and all my tanks are in remote locations in the woods, will have to plow out the roads/trails to even get to them and get the tanks set too. Crazy weather and next 10 days is not showing above freezing and mostly well below freezing.
on mine the blade swings down out of the way against a a gaurd, who maid your tool?Quote:
Originally Posted by vtsnowedin
well we went after some slab wood way up on the mountin, the road wasnt plowed but my moms bf tried it with the truck and barried it in the ice crystal snow so i went and drove the tractor 5 miles and plowed out the road all the way to the pile, we managed 2 4 wheel wagon loads before it got dark, and a load in the pick up, driving the tractor home in the dark i got frost bite on my fingers, forgoten just how much that hurts when your hands start to warm back up OUCH! missed first half of the super bowl, i was told the half time show wasnt that good any way, still about 3 more loads of slab all red pine, deffinetly enough to completely fill the wood shed. just gotta get it hope it dont snow too much im not in the mood to drive a tractor back up there!
"missed first half of the super bowl, i was told the half time show wasnt that good any way,"
How dare you - I would say this may be an over/under 40 thing. Those over 40 loved it, those under 40 would rather have had Fergie. Maybe over/under 30? One can only hope. 40 is in my rear view mirror
I bought it at Leader in Swanton. Page 7 in their catalog item 4791. The deluxe model 47705 does have a guard and costs $295 vs $134 for mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by dano2840
Lapierre or D&G have the same tool for $240 or $250. But Leader did drop their price considerably.
Guys, I have the deluxe model and it was $175 three years ago.
Been real busy with the sap hauler, i think im going to have to work on it on nights and sugaring stuff during the say, im kinda getting behind on things i gotta do/ get and hopfully when i go to get supplies in town they have eveything so i get all the stuff at one shot, but im sure once i get eveything iTHINK i need ill forget something and have to go back and get it, but anyways, im going to work on getting the stuff i need done first then if theres time add more taps to the bush and over my vacation i would like to get all the woods ready for the tanks, = still gotta fix lines and stuff, the sugarhouse is a disater, have to clean that real soon to, good sweep job goes along ways, then put the stack up on the arch and then the sugarhouse will be done and ready will just have to clean and set tanks,
well hopfully everone is doing good and ready for sugaring season
NATE
Well here we go again, more snow.
We got hit hard on Friday night with 18" of snow and now we are to get about 12-14" tonight and Wed. Oh yeah!!
The temps have been way below normal for us down here. We are normally in the high 30's right now and the next 7 days don't look like we are to get much above freezing.
I did re bottle the last gal of syrup from last year and sold some yeaterday.
I made some really like syrup from the run that I had in Jan. I am going to save that and maybe enter that at local county fair this year and maybe at the PA Farm Show next Jan, I think it would look good in glass.
Other than that just waiting!
Well fergie is ALOT hotter than the who :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by danno
I am a Madonna fan or who knows who as I listen to old old stuff.
So who else has cabine fever. Everybody at school keeps asking when I start the cabana d'sucre. They are starting to get on my nerves. Not that i am near ready yet. But what's left isn't too bad. A lot of washing and such.
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Originally Posted by dano2840
You got me there.
I liked last year's (or year before) with Tom Petty.
Tim
OK I bit the bullet and put the preheater. drip tray system on the 3 x 10 and mounted the hoods drains and the stacks. A good scrub and rinse and we will be ready to make syrup! Also built a couple more pieces for th WRU which I will move out from in front of the arch as soon as the weather breaks.
Man everything costs so much no days!
Good luck as the season opens up for 2010. It should not be that far away!
Jim Bortles, Do you have all that new tubing up?
GaryR lets rock the BAT mobile! I love that machine. Yes folks doors are a option:)
Jim Brown are you moving in to the "new" sugar house next door.
Dave Y, How many coats of wax do you have on the Force 5?
Brandon just buy the steamaway you know you want one! Much easier than building one too. That's the voice of experience speaking:)
Boyd, I know you out there. Do you have a float system that you want to sell?
Tappin and Sappin get Greg going on that pan, it syrup time! How many taps on tubing this year? Should save on the back!
OK so I am a little wound up tonight. See YAaaaaaa!
Regards,
Chris
chris not right off hand one for sale yet
tappin and sappin would that be greg at edin indu i just droped my pan off there to day to get a few leaks fixed up
chris so does that mean your done with the wru for this year i looked at the 15 day and it not warming up anytime soon
Chris,
I replaced the 3/4" line from the driveway to the sugar house with 1", finished up the wood last week, and a few things to tweek the next couple of evenings. Saturday I'm going to start tubing that piece of woods. See how far I get.
Jim