January Journal/Happy New Year

My dad and I got the vacuum manifolds installed today. Then ran some more 5/16ths. Seems nice to be getting to more enjoyable parts of the install lately.

Tim

Its nice to see that everyone didn't lay around and get fat.

Well, I'll be honest. I've been in Michigan getting fat for the last couple of days. Rather be sugaring then dealing with a wedding, but you know how that goes. LOL!

I laid around yesterday, didn't get fat though! Took apart my new/used vacuum pump today. I got the vanes free, a bolt out of it, and got it sucking air. All it needs is a new oil seal and it's ready to make some trees skinny!

I finished squirrel / deer repairs to a 200 tap woods, then tied up 300' of mainline to relocate a tank. I'll have 300' more line, but 300' less mud to drive through to get to the tank. I think I've got about 600 taps repaired and ready to tap, hopefully at least 200 more by the time it warms up. On a side note, I hope that warm up isn't until February, as my amazing girlfriend is taking me to St. Croix in two weeks! Gotta get all the tubing done quick!

Hi all,
Hope the New Year is going well for everyone!!
We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave, it's 19 outside!!
Getting windy again.
Well let's see it's 43 days till tapping time!
We're ready!!!!
Well, all but putting the evaporator and EEU back together!!
Tap trees and boil sap!!!
Stay safe!

Dave

well im headed out it is snowing and a little windy but its a COLD wind atleast the temp is in the double didgets again!! we will see how long i last
Man i hope my $583 dollar order from bascoms finally shows up today ( i ordered on tuesday)

sold the old evap. after less the 24 hour on the trader classified
the new owner came and picked it up today hope it is as good for him as it was for me got the sugar house all put back to gather i think tomorrow i going to start stringing tubing

I spent the day in the woods again, nice day in the mid 20s. Got repairs made to a 100 tap system. Some downed trees and a broken mainline wire slowed things down. As long as the weather cooperates I think 850 taps this year isn't too far fetched. Bring on the BIGSAP!!!

put up about 300ft of main line today, a good day i think. it was good untill i ran out of wire ties, i was hoping my order from bascom's would be here but it wasnt:( so ive got nothing to do tomarrow, maybe i will run around with te saw and cut branches that will poke me in the face close to the maples when i run laterals, i went into the woods today and i came up on that nice looking pasture leveled of with a fresh 6" of sparkling snow, looked real pretty........and drove right down through it ( it looks better with tractor tracks any way) any way i put up my pipe and headed back through the 2 pastures and noticed some on had walked down my tractor road through these pastures and then turned around in the second one and headed back, dont know who,
the other day i went up into the woods and there were people tracks heading from the pastures and straight up into my woods! they went right into the woods and up through to the top and then back the way they came about 8 people and 2 dogs is what i got from the tracks, 2 kids. i have no idea who they were but then again im the first to take intrest in that woods for 45 years, maybe they saw me drive across the pastures every day and wanted to see what i was up to????
maybe they wanted to make sure i didnt build a meth lab with all that tubing i was carrying into the woods..hehehe LOL!!!!!!!!