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Going to pick up another older used and abused lawn tractor today and joined the Yellow tractor forum!
Maple related!
I did order some stainless for the secret maple project.
Deer hunting has been a bust out the back door. Spent several hours this week in the woods.
House projects still not done!
Based on the above four actions: Does any one have a extra room for a tractor nut, mapleholic, deer hunting, project slacker?
I let you know how this all works out. If you don't hear from me for a while .....well you get the idea:)
Hey the wood fire in the house feels really good to take the chill off. It was snowing a little.
Regards,
Chris
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Ray came over yesterday afternoon and we finished the boarding and battening the R.O. room,,,still need to insulate it ,,but that wont take long..gonna be tied up with hockey games with the girls tommrow (gotta set priorites),,,,did get 100 more stubbies in,,,,went to Goodriches and got a bunch of mainline and fittings fri. in the rain...(one 1000' roll tied on the roof cause there was no more room in the blazer)...need to start compleating some of these projects I have started!!!!
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I tried to get to Goodrich's on Friday, just couldnt make it happen. If you went, you were within a few minutes of me.
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I hate turning the clocks back. Everyone says it is great since you get an extra hour of sleep but all I do is get up an hour earlier. It takes me a few days to get use to it. I still have many maple things to do but I'm trying to finish up a outside wood fired pizza oven. Today I have a order to can up about 45 gal between grade A and B so that will keep me busy for a few hours
Keith
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Dennis,
Was nice to meet you last Wednesday evening.You have a very nice setup. I like that shiney SS. Thanks for the good word on the 5 X 5 press. I try to make a good press at a decent price.
Daryl
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Keith, I agree, you just get up earlier and can't work as late in the afternoon. I don't see the benefit of daylight savings.
I had to work yesterday so I didn't get much done. Today I was able to finish grading mainlines. I borrowed a site level with the grade marks on it and I wish I had one sooner. I probably would have done a couple things differently. I also got a few rolls of tubing out. It's still looking like these woods will yield about 500 taps.
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Managed to get my wood in and under cover today. Down to three things on my to-do list before sugaring season...
- get a base stack
- remortar arch
- setup sap tank & piping
Nice to knock the wood off of the list! What a time consuming job!
Headed to Bascom's sometime in the next two weeks. Need to stock up and do some Christmas shopping. :)
Keith
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got a chance to walk in the sugarbush at Stetson's Maple in Lempster NH today. beautiful sugar woods as a result of 30+ years of good stewardship...nice tubing set-up. they don't use spout extensions- but they do re-do their entire tubing in sections on a 10 year rotation. RO, Thunderbolt evap and a nice steam fired finishing pan that they made. about as good as it gets in my book...
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Well almost done with the RO plumbing. Had to move one of my bulk tanks so I can build a platform to set it back on. This will raise it about 3 feet which will get it above the RO feed pump. Finally got my strainer and a couple gate valves instead of using ball valves. Finished putting in drops to new section of woods and put in a sap ladder to get the juice to the mainline.
Added on more job to the list...a couple squirrel hunters peppered a section of mainline with two shotgun blasts. Good thing I know where to find them to have them help with repairs. (bedroom down the hall and to the right!) At least they got the line chewer.
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over the weekend i skidded out more firewood trees and put more siding on the sugarhouse.i also drew up a plan for my syrup filter.
delbert
