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Peace, not only does it get bigger when split, but watch it as it dries the pile will shrink down. Putting all the sugar wood in the wood shed here and hope to have 2 cords stacked outside for the large BIG SAP FLOWS that we are going to have here. Still looking to make the century mark. See you Thursday.
We got a bunch of work done on the weekend. Saturday we planted 4 old hydro poles as the supports for our new tank platform to feed the Force 5. We can finish that construction in about a day some time over the winter. In the afternoon we demolished the rest of the old building, sub excavated over a foot of soil to get to grade and placed about 12 tons of clear stone as the base for the concrete slab.
Sunday we formed up the 8'x25' slab for the new building. It'll hopefully get poured this week. After that we need to form and pour the knee wall that makes up the grade difference on 2 sides of the building. We also got the roof jack installed for the steam stack and finished tightening all the fittings on the Force 5. It should be ready for the training session on Oct 17 that Lapierre is holding at our camp for about 13 producers who have also bought the Force 5. I can't wait to spark it up!
Got another 5 cords split into the woodshed yesterday
Adding an 8x10 addition to my 12 x 16 sugar house. It got pretty tight in there last year with the upgraded 3 x 8 evaporator. The feed tank, bottling counter and filter tank will all be in the addition along with shelves for finished product. It sure will be nice to get the bottles out of the evaporator room where the labels all get steamed off.
Floor and walls are up. Plan is to put the rafters and decking up Saturday. I should have it all done within the next couple weekends. I love working on barns and sugarhouses so much more than the house. I'm no carpenter so it is a lot more fun calling it close enough rather than trying to make it perfect.
I'm no carpenter so it is a lot more fun calling it close enough rather than trying to make it perfect.
My grandfather had a few favorite sayings when it came to being a carpenter.
1. Measure twice and cut in the middle
2. A good carpenter knows how to hide his mistakes
3. Good enough for who it's for
4. If you don't like it you should have built it yourself
Man I miss that man. Well it stopped raining today until I arrowed a buck tonight. I was pleased with my shot but the arrow hit the opposite shoulder and did not get a pass through. Watched the buck turn with just the fletchings sticking out it's side right were I wanted it to hit. Took my gear back to the house got the 4 wheeler and starting tracking and down came the stupid rain. Not a little rain but a whole lot of rain. Got dark quick and all I could do was walk grids with a flashlight. After about an hour I see headlights coming up the logging trail on my land. I thought maybe it was a 4 wheeler but it was the state troopers in a 4x4 with the neighbor in the passenger seat. In all my life I would never had expected that one. Neighbor was worried there was a poacher in the woods as he seen a light shining throught the woods. They insited on talking and talking and Im like I gotta find this deer and Im getting awfully wet so either get out and help or let me get back at it. Trooper said sure I ll help and drove through the woods with his spot light and then out to a field and spotlighted that. Well I yet to find the deer. Back at it in the morning. I hate rain and hate not finding a deer that I know is fatally hit. I have only had this happen once before and Im not happy. Sleepless night for me. I just should have cut wood. Did I mention I HATE RAIN.
This weekend I'm planing on going up to Dufuses Sugar House and geting myself one of those nice 275 gallon totes. It took him forever to call me back like 2 months but he is the cheapest around. It is a long weekend so hopefully I can get more wood split and stacked.
My saying is Close enough for the girl's I go with.
I can feel your pain 3rgen when it comes to hunting deer. Shot a deer once at about 50 feet while standing on a bank of dirt and I had to step down off of it to get to the deer and when I got there no deer. Only took my eyes off of it for 5 seconds and it disappeared.
Really have to get finished with other work pretty soon and get working on a evaporator pretty soon. This school is really driving me nuts and cutting into my time.
Well I will be the proud owner of a 200gal milk tank come Friday evening.
I ended up paying $1/gal so it sounds like I paid the average price for it.
He had a few larger ones but he wanted a lot more for them because the cooling works on them.
Did I ever tell you guys I hate rain. Well walked a grid this morning at first light in search of the deer. Found it about 80 stuffed in the thickest bunch of crap. Venison in the freezer. Now I gotta get working on more maple, well atleast until the 17 when southern tier bow opens.
well i sat bow hunted all weekend with my buddies but monday morning i got in my own stand, saw 7 squirells and chippys shot one with the bow 10 min later a doe came in and i was all ready to put her in the freezer when a spotted fawn came up beside her uhhhhhhhh no no no i said, so i turned my head the other way and pretended i didnt see them and let them go
When you use a buck grunt do you do one 2 sec. long grunt followed by 2-3 short ones or just one long grunt????