february Journal

Dave y when do you plan to do it i may be able to get away one day this week during the day to help you out if you need any help pm me

Well I spent the last 2 days in the north bush, got a good part of my drops in, ran a few last minute lines, set the tanks, I hopefully will finish drops tomorrow after work. Still have to get a few pieces of sheet metal to cover the tanks...

I will finish up the sugarhouse stuff this week, guess I wont get to test boil.. oh well.

I will tap this next weekend and hopefully get a good run right away!. LETS BOIL Massachusetts !!

Stopped by a friend's on my way home from working in my new bush, and he was just finishing tapping. There were a few drips after he drilled each one, so I know things are thawed around here. Can't wait til I'm ready to start tapping. Hopefully in another week or so.

Tim

I finished tapping the 1600 tap bush today. I did not get any more tap as I was pooped. Snow is hard to walk in and not deep enough for snowshoes. I carried my pack basket all day with gear in it and it wore me down. I am going to try to finish up this week evenings after work . jrthe3 thank for the offer, but I don't believe I am take any days off to tap. If something comes up I will pm you.

Worked on taps all weekend. Got another 160 to 200ish in. Didnt have time to count. Worked flashlight to flashlight. Feel pretty sore. There all on high vac so should help on the dump rate. Didnt even run wire. Looks pretty signature though even at that. Ill pretty it up after the sap quits running. Looks like later this week were looking at S@#tastrophe sap Im hoping. Gonna clean the shed this week and do some odds and ends. Wednesday Ill have to take off work and pump the tanks across the road so they dont run over. Pump line froze up so had to leave it there. Next months it for me, I dont usually make syrup in april so itll probly come fast. Sap quits I quit. Not going to do one darn thing till I tap in next year. Gonna take some time off and smell some roses. Hope every one gets lots of sap. I get another freeze up Im going to put in another 100 and thats probly about it. Theron

Theron stop and smell the roses, I'll beleive it when I see it!!:rolleyes:

If you are done adding for now Theron Once it starts to flow into the sugarhouse, That will be what the work was all for! Wishing you luck this week man.

Now I got to goto work, Mondays Suck!

Did a count this morning. Turned out to be 210 taps for the weekend. Think Im going to work in the sugarhouse this week get everything spiffed up and ready. Might be some BIGSAP end of week hopefully. Wanna see some sap run. Gonna boil till nothing runs and then Im totally shutting down rest of year. No house projects, no sugarbushes, nothin. Gonna go fishin and give the woodchucks payback with Booy and Brother and ride my four wheeler around and enjoy life. Theron

PARRRR(so much wood you could single handly deplete the ozone layer in one season)KEEEEEER! WE NEED AN UPDATE DOWN HERE NOW. Your a serious producer and we need to know what the heck is going on. THEEE(so much lateral line you can see it from outer space)ROOOOON

Got my permit today and the gas 5hp honda engine just came from ups for the vac, What a great day :D

TTHHEER(bigbelley)RRROONN- wow, another 12" of snow-glad the tubing is pretty much ready to go,,,have to get Marvins front on, add another layer of brick to the firebox in the arch, run the HIGHVOLTAGE wire to sugarhouse,set up blower,move pumps to woods, set up trucks,clean out tanks,finish plumbing tanks, ect. really,,,a lot of stuff to do,,,but am feeling pretty good about it,,,turns out I have 298 nice buckets,,151 spiles and 155 bucket wires,,talked to George tonight,,said I could use his 600 buckets,,got premission to tap over 300 road trees so far (some VERY BIG) not sure how the bucket thing will work {alot of labor as I remember},gonna ask a fellow about another 200 later this week,I have 2 new 7/16 tapping bits, figure Ill just go as long and as HARRRRRRDD as I can,,if some sap goes on the ground (heaven forbid),so be it,,,,hopefully we wont be lacking for something to do when it starts to run... gonna get a case of AMP with my last pulp check, think Ill need it,,,,,,hope to start in ernest this weekend,,,thats the Update from here