December Journal

I love the vac. yes I use it all the time I tap mostly reds and sometimes they run sometimes they don't run good from tree to tree when they are on vac they run like crazy. Last year it saved my season without it I would have made nothng!!!! I orginally set up for gravity tubing and had alot of taps per lateral which I am changing out this year and basically re running all my laterals to a maximum of 5 taps per lateral some as many as 2. I made enough money this year to switch over to CV's too. Got all my drops made btu have to switch out Tee's too. lots of work but getting there.

I got a bb2 and it runs great!!!

i got my PID controller in the mail yesterday.after,work i went to the shop and worked on my rollup door again.i have three panels done and the last one almost done then it,s paint and put it up.
it looks like winter has came to the north country.yesterday,at 4pm i was out by my sawmill and i whipped out the ruler..16 inchs of snow on the ground and counting.it,s snowed all night and it,s still snowing and snowing hard right now.

delbert

Nate- sorry to hear about the stuff getting ripped off! I had a releaser stolen a couple of years back..We put a sine up at the tank where it was taken from (next to a major road) and got 2 eye whitness reports..Police were able to "take down the bad guy".and after a while we got the releaser back....Hope you are as lucky...
Over at Bobs agine yesterday...Got another 1500' of wire and 3/4"lateral mainline up,,laid out the rest of the lat. mains, and moved a whole bunch of supplies into the heart of the bush..(a 4wheeler would make that job eaiser!)..cant express how wounderful that mainline spinner works,,what a timesaver!

Last 2 days i was repairing lateral lines that the trees and squirrels made a mess of. Lots of branches down/damage this year. I know we had a freak 6 inch snowfall in May when the leaves were on and i think thats why all the damage. One more full day and i think i will have the obvious damage repaired. We have a inch of snow on the ground so it's nice walking but the mornings are starting at 8 degrees so thats real fun working with tubeing repairs. Yesterday, when i was done for the day and went back to my truck with the 4-wheeler, I seen that a wolf trotted past my truck sometime as i was working in the woods. Getting a little to brave i say!! I know the gut piles all over from the past gun hunt dosn't help much to make them shy away from human activity. Today i found myself looking over my shoulder when i heard something.

Nate - sux about the tools, hope you get a lead on them.

Figured I had plenty of time to add another new section and re-work part of another. I did get started a few weeks ago, but then got sidelined (steelhead fishing). At least we were able to brush a new mainline run. Anyway, I like tubing best in cold, snowy weather.

Well, after 30" of snow since Saturday, I can't find my mainlines. This will slow things down a bit. I was able to break a trail with the snowmobile to the bush today - so at least I can get up in there this weekend. Quite a lake effect storm for this neck of the woods. Never thought I would get the snowmobile in there, but the snow is pure fluff.

39 inchs of snow and more still coming pretty much put a stop to all things maple

Boyd,
Some of that 36 inches missed us. But there is still time. We may have 16 inches. Yea glad the wood is cut. I can ride the trader a little more.
May go out and put the WRU on and get the hoods in place.
Chris

Our lake effect blitz ended this morning - final count was 50"+/-. Heard Perrysburg down near the PA/NY border picked up 72". Sounds like we're supposed to do it all over again early next week. Gonna be tough to get tubing work done unless we thaw.

Same here Danno had a final tally of 50 inches also. Rain sunday then same deal all over. It has been a rough few days keeping up at work and trying to plow 5 driveways. Wanted to drag out some more pine for sugarhouse we will see though. Tractor had no problem getting through the woods yesterday all fluff. Really debating if Im going to run some tubing this winter or not. Just been so busy and booked with work till second week in febuary so I dont know if I will get it in or not. I wanted to do a section of 150 taps that are hard to gather with buckets. Nice and close to the house but not so easy to get to by tractor. Easy hookup for vac.

Just got an update from the farm - a grand total of 1" on the ground! Those of you snowed in but itching to run some tubing can come help me for the weekend - I need someone to run the 2-hander while I stretch.

I do sympathize - it sucks when you can't work in the bush because of the weather. I hope things get better, not worse, before tapping time for y'all.