Casey- You do a bigger operation than anyone Ive ever heard of your age. Thats great your going to have that many taps. Good thing your going to have that ro. Theron
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Casey- You do a bigger operation than anyone Ive ever heard of your age. Thats great your going to have that many taps. Good thing your going to have that ro. Theron
Wayside- Its always a work in progress. My stuff is always half torn apart. Theres some trees I always look at as your going into Troy from towanda. They're on the steep banks each side of rt 6. Bunch of nice trees and I always think how fun it would be to tube them. Some might be impossable becouse of it being so steep but theres quite a lot of them and the tube would go straight up and down. Theron
therron i helped i old timmer hang tubing last year the one hill side was so steep you had to lower your self down it but almost half his taps are on this "cliff " so he said if he didn't tap them he wouldn't have any sap to boil guess it all comes down to how bad you want it
But can you run them back to your house Theron. They might require a few lifters
over the last couple of days i finished hauling the firewood from down the road and i put some roofing on the sugarhouse.we had some rain so that slowed things down abit..yesterday,was a washout.
i plan on hunting deer on and off over the next couple of weeks but,i,ll also do as much sugaring stuff as i can if need be i,ll work in the garage or put up some lights to keep going.
i don,t have to work my regular job much next week..thats one big plus.i work monday/tuesday until about noon 30 then i,am done for the day and on tuesday for the rest of the week..iy,ll be hunting and sugaring. :D
delbert
Jerry- I think theres probly a couple hundred feet of elevation difference from Troy to Roseville. Plus its like 20 miles. Can you do that with two pipe ladders and a big enough vac pump?
You throw enough money my way and I will make it work for you
Matter of fact I am calculating right now, but remember you don't need a big pump. LOL
Hey now Troy is my neck of the woods...eventually I'll need all the sap I can get, so those trees are spoken for. Nice try though!
Scott
Wow Nate you have expanded a ton in the past few years. I don't think I'll ever have that many taps esecialy not at your age.
I just finished making a handle for my scoop. I made it out of spalted maple which is when it starts to rot and has cool patterns in it but it is still solid the piece of wood actully came from a pallet that was destined for the evaporator at my dads friends house.
Were not going to take your sap Scott unless you sell it to me. I cant even keep my own stuff working. Theron
Last couple of nights were long ones finishing insulating the RO room,,but its pretty tight,,Going to get the RO today,,,then we will have to figure the wiring and plumbing...where to put permate tank ect....Really rather be in the woods,,,but better to get this done befor snow.....
Parker- that was my problem also...rather be in the woods than glueing PVC together and tightening hose clamps in the RO room. I thnk I finally have mine done, will post pics later for you guys to take a look at. I'm sure I did something wrong and would rather fix it now than in Feb when sap is flowing.
R.O is in its room with heater,,,quite a job getting it,,could not have done it without NH maple 48 and tom,,,THANKS,,,now the wireing and plumbing!! Moving forward!
i'm sitting here waiting for syrup to heat up and then cool down for a batch of cream. The season is a upon me for making a ton of maple products for Christmas time. Most every night I have to make something for the next few weeks
I'm trying to catch up on the trader.
Keith
here a updated pic of my little sugarhouse and the wood i,ve been hauling in.
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medi...update1110.jpg
delbert
delbert,
Nice wood pile looks like a lean to will be needed for all that wood!
I have been working on maple related projects today and sold some syrup to neighbor. More on that after syrup season.
Keith Talbot stopped by and visited this morning he has his evaporator all reassembled and ready and has about 5 cords of wood ready to make syrup. Hope I am doing that well at 79 years:)
Haynes that new R.O. will be a great addition. hope the set up is progressing well for you. I wouldn't have a clue as to how to set one up.
Theron,
You must be about ready to tap?:)
Regards,
Chris
Chris- Im not!, Im working steady though. Yesterday dad and I were working on the shed closing in the new evaperator and I had to cut down a small maple out behind the tanks. It was gushing sap. Weve had freeze after freeze this fall. With a season like last spring having only had three freezes Im really considering fall tapping. Not this year but next year Im going to do something. Im either going to tap one bush in and process it on a small evaperator as a test or Im going to tap a certain amount of trees in and dump the sap as an experiment. I cant see how I couldnt make a lot of sap right now. I know all the studies say that the sap is weak in the fall but like last spring we were always a long way from a freeze night and that sap was weak becouse of that. Im wondering if climate change is making our area more favorable to fall tapping. Anyway Im going to do my own little study next fall. Im coming along pretty good getting ready anyway. Dad has the shed almost all closed in and its really looking nice. Im still tuning up the woods. I think I am going to have very few new taps. Maybe 450 but my big goal is getting the ones I have super good and I think Im going to accomplish that. I like hearing what everyone else is doing. Lot of big things happening this year with guys on the trader. Brian is putting new taps in, Parker is going to finally have an ro, Maple walnut is going to have an ro, Casey is going commercial and he isnt even out of school yet, be a fun spring. Theron
:o, Theron,
Were you late getting out of the woods or were you getting ready for an early start?
Finished getting the sugar wood in yesterday. The woodshed is stacked to the roof and I had to put some inside the sugar house too. It is all nice and dry and under cover. I used less than 2 cords last season and have almost 3.5 cords for this coming season. I hope that I have to start worrying about running out of wood this season. That will mean that I had the best season ever!
I started working in the woods last weekend and things are coming along nicely there. I am replacing the last 1/2" mainline with 3/4" and want to add a dry line to increase the efficiency of my oldest section of tubing. I have been getting close to 20 gallons of sap per tap out of my reds but WAAAAAANT to get more.
I collected over 12000 gallons of sap last season and could have made a lot more quality product if the sugar had been there. I would like to double last seasons total of 153 gallons.
Did I miss something here Chris? I know that Parker has an RO now but I didn't know that Haynes has one too.
Maplecrest stopped by yesterday morning with 30 barrells and 2, 2" pumps,,,that will make life a whole lot simpler next spring,,I have always used 3/4" pumps,,takes a while to empty a 1000 gallon tank,,should be a little faster with a 2"pump!!,Thanks!!! MOVING FORWARD,,,will be getting ready this week by finishing filling the shed and hopefully getting back into the woods!!! Off to hockey.....THINKMAPLE!!!!!!!!!
My dad and I were going to pour the slab for the sugar house this weekend but friday night we spent the night in the ER because my grandfather was having trouble breathing. Turns out he has a resperatory infection, so now hes on oxygen and we had to cancel the load of cement for this week. Hes doing fine with the oxygen and meds now. Hopefully we can reschedule for later this week but will see. Just finished splitting the Tri-axel load of wood this morning. Headed back to school for the final two days till thanksgiving break.
SUGARMAKER:i plan on building a 8x14 woodshed..if ya look close you can see that the wood is piled back from the sugarhouse to give me room to build.
i took the weekend off to do some deer hunting (no luck) but i,ll be back at the maple tomorrow.
delbert
Doug- Just getting up, gotta wann it. Had to go swap some tanks and pick up some filters. Just got home. Should have been a farmer. Got my new lapierre sap filters but cant figure out how to get the top off to look inside. Wonder if its just a real tight seal but not to sure about tunking on things as expensive as the things are. Theron
got 700 feet of mainline hung, and some chores done around the house. Making lots of progress now I just need to do all my lats before the snow falls
Here are some pictures of the completed RO piping. Anything grossly wrong that you can tell?
From sun up to sun down i did nothing but cut trees off of my mains and laterals. Big wind means big damage. For some reason most of the trees were ash. I thank my wife for letting me buy a 4 wheeler. Because it was so much easier getting around in the woods. Still so much work to do in too little time. The stress level is starting to rise.
Yesterday, I put up about 170 taps worth of lats, 70 taps on one mainline, 100 on another. The one with 100 taps has a lot of trees which are 18-24" with some 3 footers thrown in. I think I'll get another 100 taps on this mainline...sweet. After this line's done, all the tubing will be up and I'll need to go back and put in drops and saddles.
Delbert,
I new there was a wood shed in the near future. Good planning. Keep that wood dry.
Nice looking sugar house!
Regards,
Chris
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Russ,
Sorry I guess I was brain dead for a moment. Yes Parker will love the new RO.
I cant keep up with you guys!
And Theron wears me out just reading his posts:)
Regards,
Chris
Maplewalnut,
Are you using the bottom most port for the drain on your wash tank?
put up 1000 ft of mainline on thursday and saturday- then started running some lats this morning- hope to have over 200 taps in that bush...some nice field-side trees.
been trying out the new lapierre slide fittings- the ones I have do not have the big hook- you have to use the available strap. after some trial and error I think I have them figured out. like the no cut-removable idea but I think it was Thad that mentioned about the chewing- so might try something else.
will try a section of clear seasonal spouts in there also...
hoping for a visit from the sap goddess
Okay this is off maple topic but I just want to share a little common sense with some fellow hunters. This weekend was opening gun season in southern tier NY. Like all the other years someone down there gets shot and worse yet killed. Well this year it happened on state land that borders my camp. Guy sets up a camo ground blind and sits in it opening morning, story is he was wearing all camo as well and was inside this think rattling and blowing on a grunt call. Low and behold some moron sees some movement and blast a round without being sure of his target. 2 problems I have with this are. 1 sitting in a camo ground blind during gun season without any sort of blaze orange and acting like a deer is trouble when you got a woods full of novice or uneducated hunters all around you. 2 the lack of identifying your target and surroundings from the guy who pulled the trigger. So after all this takes place the very next afternoon Im sitting on watch ( with blaze orange on) and I hear movement from behind me. Picture the thickest nastiest patch of woods you have seen and this is where the noise was coming from. Im getting all excited that a deer is coming my way though this thick crap. Im all ready to shoulder my gun and click the safety off as soon as this deer steps out. Well lucky for the deer in full dress camo walking on 2 legs carrying a gun didnt walk in front of the guy who shot the hunter the morning before cause there might have been 2 dead hunters. So my story ends with this WEAR BLAZE ORANGE AND IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET AND BEYOND BEFORE YOU PULL THE TRIGGER. Sorry to rant I just dont want to see any sugarmakers getting hurt or killed. Heck anyone for that matter. Be smart and be safe please.
Got the RO plumbed in an ran about 300 gallons of clean water through it as a test. Went smooth. Fired up the evap for about an hour and boiled some water while scrubbing down the inside of the pans. Now into the woods over the weekend to fix lines and add taps (sap ladder).
Chris
The list is getting shorter!
I am working on routing the cable for the stack cover then I will be done with the evap.
I need to make a small sap hauling tank for the back of my kubota RTV.
Dennis,
Glad your list is getting shorter. Mine seems to grow:)
Weather was very warm today. I took a vacation day and after the rain stopped around 3:00 I took the '06 for a walk in the woods.
Rest of the day was spent monkeying with maple stuff. Hope to have my evaporator put back together by spring! Not sure what year:)
Regards,
Chris
Does anybody know where the classifieds went?
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I have to say I love those end of line hook connectors (I call them thumbs up),,was at sanborns and all kinds of new limbs on the lines and me without a saw...simply uphook the end of the line and pull the whole mess under the limbs,,,try that with an end ring!!!
Got that old mainline replaced finally,,littel longer that I thought it was,,wound up being 1100',(thought it was around 750'),,really wishing I had used 1" instead of 3/4's now,,,but its fairly steep...might put a booster in it 1/2 way,,Someone peppered a 1000' roll of 1 inch I had out there with birdshot...(BUMMER),,want to get that woods done and ready to tap (like rte11) then concentrate in Hill,,,if I get hill done I can add more in all 3 orchards later...just want to get ready to drill...dont want to loose barrels and barrels of syrup at the start of the season like I did last year!!! I work in the RO room (heated and well lit) when it gets cold out.....
I got the walkin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu, so I haven't been out much lately, but I am going to try to get some stuff done next weekend, after the holiday. I got a .22, so I may try to get a few of those little grey squirrely beasts who have been chewing on the lines before the hunting season ends.
Meawhile there is a lot to do before the season starts. I think I'll finish up all the carpentry in the shack, with the woodstove to warm me and keep the chill at bay.