Dick, I'll welcome him in for sure! Funny I used to work for the company that owned the cobank building in Agawam. probably where he worked.
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Dick, I'll welcome him in for sure! Funny I used to work for the company that owned the cobank building in Agawam. probably where he worked.
Happy New Year to all traders.
Spent the day yesterday putting in saddles. Even with the temp in the teens, 10 inches of snow and 40mph winds I managed to get about 50 done with some mainline tightening and small lateral tweeks here and there. No idea how many taps I have in right now, but with the roadside trees we 'bucket tap' I'm sure I am looking at some long boils . Can't get rid of the buckets there the honey hole of all maple sap and well the lines are already up. Like theron I haven't told my father yet how many taps we will have this year. He retired last year and well, lets just say he'll have plenty to do for a few weeks!
Like Kieth I am sitting here at the computer when I should be in the woods. I hate to miss a sunny day in the woods but my old and sore body doesn't like the cold as much as it used to.
Guys- I know what your saying about it being cold. 3degrees here this morning. Pretty hard to work on the lines in that stuff for sure. I know what we should do, this would be a good day to GO!!! GO!!! GO!!! TAP EVERY TREE YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON!!, NO TIME TO LOSE!!, SEASON JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!, CANT MISS A TREE!! Got the bush across the road pretty much done today. A little finetuning and its there. Few more taps gonna go get. Good feeling though. All gravy from here. More fun work too. Theron
happy new year all. may the price of syrup be the new years resolution. worked in the woods today 5 hours before i got tired of cold. canning syrup tonight to fill orders where it is warm
happy new year fellas. -3 here at the shack today. got some good power run in and set my new blower. lots more to do when it warms up
Happy new year to all Traders. We had -2 this morning at 8, Yea, I didn't get up til 8. Too cold out to be productive so I spent the day inside. Didn't even make more drops because I would have had to drive to the sugarhouse, plow the drive by tractor, tractor would have started but not easily and plowing the 2' new snow (since it started mid morn yesterday and drifts would have been big because this is light weight snow which blows around a lot.) would have been a job. Then i could have loaded the supplies into the truck and driven home to make drops BUT I just lazied all day.
It looks like Theron, maplecrest and I are the only ones that worked in the woods today. after checking beaver traps this morning i went to the woods and tied off 1200 ft of main line.made a few repairs on last years install and came home. Still have 800ft of main line to do. Have to work tomorrow so I wont get to that until sat.
dave i worked in the woods to cutting up some trees that where down on the mainline then it was down to sugar house to clean up and take some pic of the old rig and try to sell it
i worked in the woods, did a little on my tank shed, about 15min worth, got sick of it because the nails stuck to your glove and you couldnt hold the nails in your mouth w/ out them sticking to your lips, so i went onto the nieghbors land and cut some poles down for the carpenter building my sugar house