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you got a serious bush there, you added on alot, is it fully tapped or is there more ???, do you own the land, i hope to own a piece of land with atleast a 1000 taps so if i loose all my other places i can still sugar,.. do you run a electric releaser, i purchased a single bernard and it sticks i was told rice in the float? does it work or any ideas i noticed u have a single.
i seem to add more taps each year you gotta love it
nate
There are more to be had, maybe another 1000 if I looked around hard enough. I've got the "easiest" ones now. At least in relation to where I had lines and concentration. Nothing is perfect but it is alot of taps in one spot which is nice and the landowners are super nice people and could care less about getting anything from me. They are just happy someone is using the land.
I have an electric releaser over there only because that's what I had that was big enough to handle the taps and I have to pump the sap up the hill to the road so the releaser is about 400 feet from the road.
I have never had an ounce of trouble with my single. At least until I shipped it to PA for some luney toon to use this year. Honestly the rice thing was new to me, I agree with the theory. In fact I was thinking of doing the some thing when we were trying to figure out some problems with the float not coming down hard enough. I was there with theron when Richard's main man todd told us about the rice. Makes perfect sense.
After this season I should be able to let everyone know what a couple thousand red maples will do with the big suck on them. There are some pretty serious ones in there.
The guy I do the sugaring with just got a snowmobile, and I think it may come in handy with all this snow. We can pack trails with it.
It is going to be great to get our taps in finally. Now we need a little sugaring weather.
Matt,
So what is the boiling plan for this year, did you get rid of your evap and what is in its place.
Willy went down the road to Dean (Acer). Then came the sprint to find a replacement the 4x12 deal fell through the night before I was going to get it.
So I ended up buying a 3x8 with intensofire arch, preheater and hood. Pretty sweet boiling rig. I cleaned it all up and painted the iron on it. got some stack from Bill Mason this weekend and did a test fire on Sat night. The original plan was to get a small fire under the pans to heat the water up in them to clean everything. Well a few minutes after than and the sugar house was full of steam and I started pounding the wood to her. Pretty amazing stuff it's almost as much fun to look inside the viewing window on the door to watch the fire as it is to watch the bubbles!
Matt- I have premission to tap all the trees on my road and flaghole (heading to rte.11) I have premission to tap the 500 prehistoric (most 3 feet thru) rockies in the pasture to the left down over the hill,,,but I dont know how I would get the sap from the buckets to the road??? I know my skidder would make a real mess,,,I dont have a team of horses,,,dont think a 4 wheel drive tractor would do it,,,,think I would need a snowcat,,,now that gets me thinking,,,I know a fellow with a snocat (bigone) hhhmmmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
PARR( so much sap even the Canadians are getting pissed)KER- You guys with all these buckets are making me sad. Im happy for you guys but sad inside knowing what Im missing. Is there any way you could dump it down there in a tank and then pump it up to the BIGSAP truck with your sap pump? Probly not feasable with so many. I got a 100 out. Were going to put a 100 in. I know that doesnt make me much of a sugarmaker but next year watch out. Im going to be ready on the bucket thing. My main problem is I dont own a pickup. The only thing I have to haul with is my lincoln. It does have airbags in the back so I could probly haul a lot of weight. Next year Im focusing on the buckets. This year Ive just been so busy on all this sapline stuff Ive just really dropped the ball. Hope you get tons of sap. Theron
Theron,
You will probably be just about done sugaring when we start so you can come on up to my place and gather 2,000 buckets. If you can't make it up here while we are sugaring I will wait for you to come wash them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How far up in New York are you? Im at the southern line of New York. Theron
I am near the canadian border, about 2 hours east of watertown, ny. What part of ny are you near?