I thought I read somewhere that Premium gas didn't have any ethanol in it.
Any one else heard this? For the few gallons i burn in my saw, it wouldn't break the bank to buy Premium.
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I thought I read somewhere that Premium gas didn't have any ethanol in it.
Any one else heard this? For the few gallons i burn in my saw, it wouldn't break the bank to buy Premium.
Ipakiz just check the pumps at the gas station they have to have a sticker on it to tell you the ethonal content. Here all the grades say 10 or 15% ethonal.
Placed my jug and bottle orders today at Bascom's. Feel sorry for the delivery guy cause he has quite a few boxes to unload while I am at work tomarrow. I shopped the order around today and as far as the glass goes Bascoms was by far the cheapest for the same glass. 6 bucks a case cheaper. Not to mention ground is only a 1 day delivery to me. Time to pull the etching equipment out and get the glass etched up. Went to TS and got some new plumbing supplies for the sugarhouse to empty the gathering tanks. I have pipe plumbed up in the rafters and then to a flexible hose connected to a pump that I drop in the gathering tanks. Made a couple mistakes setting it up last year. The end of the pipe drops into the holding tank about a foot and the first time that tank was full and I shut the pump and took it out of the gathering tank it siphoned that foot on the ground. So a check valve will solve that. Plus I picked up a flex hose that is self coiling so no more tripping over it. I hope everyone it at the bottom of their to do list cause it is gonna be go time soon.
i just put a new food grade filter on it before this happened and it had a new food grade plug later this summer, talked to the old man and he said when he had it rebuilt he had it bored out to a 372xp, but i put this fuel additive into the gas can that my dealer said to try, he has a feeling it might be the coil or the gas lines, i have 149 in my bank account and still need to plumb up 2 tanks buy 4 boxes of clamps and 300 feet of half inch so i cant afford a 70 dollar coil right now, ive got my gutless 61 huskey but its just not the same! :cry: :cry: :cry:
[QUOTE=jdj;95102]DAHHHHH theyre tin pans any wayQuote:
Originally Posted by dano2840
[QUOTE=dano2840;95370]DanO, It sounds like you have a plan here to get some new SS pans. Dane.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdj
Got two dozen more taps clean today. Im up to around 90 taps cleaned. hopefully i will have 100 taps out this season. Next weekend I plan on going up to Red Bucket Sugar Shack to get supplies for this season then tap around the 21st.
I sold 4 cases of syrup today. Guy wants the bottles custom etched with the name of his estate on them. Going all the way to Martha's Vineyard. Have not even tapped yet and I got to fill orders. Sure wish the weather would break so we can get on with it already.
Danno2840 sometimes it just does not matter when you replaced the plug especially with a 2 stroke engine. There are quite a few things that can kill a plug in a hurry. Running lean or rich, which is affected by weather, Could be you ran her to hard on a hot summer day and weakened the plug. It is a pretty cheap quick test.
Just got word that I have to run up to Portland Maine to work on some equipment in the next 10 days. 14 hours round trip for 2 hours of work. Anybody in the Portland area looking for a visitor?
I'm officialy in the OMG the seasons almost here mode. I started adding up the prices of the supplies I need and what needs to be done I'm starting to go crazy and this is only my second year making syrup. Hopefully friday night my dad will baring me and the evaporator to the shop and we can get that all welded up. Also I need to get a yard or two of sand from the gravel pit to make my preheated/ concentrating evaporator setup on a block arch. Next Saturday I'm going to pick up supplies. Tomorrow I'm going to put my old quad on craigslist caz ideally need to sell it to help with my maple addiction. If I sell that I can get a bigger evaporator. We are finaly in the countdown 17 days till tapping.
I'm not as bad as Farmboy but it is acoming. I had to go to Berlin today to get my computer back from a viris cleaning. Stopped in at "Farm and country" in Williamstown and picked up another 400 feet of black main line and a bagtie twister handle. I spent some time with a pop level and flagging marking out where the lowest run of main line needs to go. Still looking at dead wood from the ice storm ,what was it ten years ago? About fourty good taps below where I can get mainline to them without a tub and pump set up. Get whats up hill for this year and work on that in the future.
It been 395 days (Ithink)since I last boiled sap. I hope I can wait it out.
went to buy all the plumbing stuff for the little vacuum. now that I have that I will definity need more wood!!!! working on that too. still got a few weeks but but should have the vacuum in place and plumbed by next week. I will split some more wood today and tomorrow and sat. and .... see ya.