I have about 600 more to put up and access to about 2000 more if I want them.
So you may have to wait till I am dead.
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I have about 600 more to put up and access to about 2000 more if I want them.
So you may have to wait till I am dead.
I might as well settle for the .90 cents probly be a long wait. Bet that was fun hanging all them. Makes me want to go out and drill a 7/16 and hang a bucket. I bet it was great just drilling and seeing them go up so fast. Will you have the rest of the buckets in before thursday. Theron
After working in Shawnee PA today I came home to put in the first 100 Buckets. 100 to go. That is enough for me. All road side big trees. 1650 in so far, 2000 or bust. I found one of the releasers with the dump flap frozen to the body this afternoon. The releaser was full to the brim. I hate to think of the sap that was not collected today because of the frozen flap. BIG SAP THURS AND FRIDAY!!!!! i hope...
Dave Y glad to hear that you have help hanging buckets. I only did 145 and that was time consuming for one person, 560 in a day, good job.
Theron you can't stand seeing a maple tree without a tap can you? So how many gals is in the belly releaser when it dumps. That has to be something to see and hear!
3rdgen,
Sell the green paint and get some orange paint. It don't cost nearly as much as a comparable green paint and they sell more orange painted compact tractors than everyone else put together for a good reason.
I hope to be completely tapped by Thursday. I am going to finish my tubing tomorrow. and try to do some buckets also.
Nice job Dave- The weather keeps changing but now its too the good. I think your hitting it just right. Your going to be starting your boilathon soon I think. Hope you get your 600 gallons. I bet you might even do more with all the buckets but whatever we get, we did our best, well be proud of it. Thats how I look at it. Dennis- I think it must hold darn near 20 gallons. Thing looks like a fish tank. And when it dumps its right now. One thousand one, one thousand too you have 20 gallons or whatever it is. Its amazing. Theres a six inch outlet thats why its like instantaneous. I like it better than the double. Its simple and really smooth and quick. Pretty cool to watch. Ive got to get some pics for you guys becouse theres a lot of new stuff to see. Heading out back tapping this morning. Got to get the count up. Theron
Going by the 10 day forcast looks like I will tap Wed and Thurs this week. Still looking for final tap count, I think it ended about 600-625. Will count as i tap to verify or while walking lines to look for leaks after tapping. Yesterday I finished my new install bush section and repaired another 150 from last year at same bush. Today I am going to my own bush at the sugarhouse to do final walk/repair. On my 150 repair from yesterday I only had 2 small chews that i found but I had several trees and limbs down on laterals, none on main. Some of the lats were burried so deep in the snow and cructed in it tool lots of time and effort to fix, expecially going from the bottom of the hill across a flat about 150' wide to the mainline where more trees were which is also along the road. That flat is thich underbrush ands has NO maples. Before next year i am going to redesign, put a branch main along the hill and tie it to my wet dry line I put up this season, and eliminate the flat. Don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.
Trying to stay warm. The sap from late last Thursday is froze in the buckets and my guess is that there is a small amount of ice holding the roadside totes down. So we wait and work on other maple stuff like making cream and candy.
Chris
Thurdsay and Friday do look good. I started to get a decent flow and then froze back up here. When it drops down into the teens at night and barely hits 35 during the day, it makes for a poor flow. :( Of course, it'll open up full bore for me when I have the least time to boi. It's all good and we're ready to make some sweet stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Ryther