October Journal

Amber- I have been reading the AOF thread,,To put it bluntly I have stack envy,,,I CANT turn my stack purpel no matter how hard I try,,and I do get some smoke after I fire,,my stack never gets real hot (dont have a thermometer) and I never get sap jumping out of the flue pan..or a real rolling boil within a foot of the stack in the flue pan. I would like to boil faster and have all the basic components to do air over fire,,,I did add an air tight front and that has helped alot,,,but I know I can-should get more heat from the wood I am useing (Marvin is pretty darn inefficiant)......If I could get another 10-25% out of the rig that would be a BIG PLUS!!! I also have to put that HUGE BLOWER outside...its very very loud,,,,,

We couldn't have asked for a nicer (Cdn) Thanksgiving weekend! The leaves were in full colour and I worked in a T-shirt every day. We also got a lot done in the bush. Bro' and I split and filled about 10 pallets of evaporator wood (say 6+ full chord). We also got all Mom's firewood in the basement, did some cleanup around the camp and walked part of the bush to re-tie mainlines to the steel where the zip ties had broken or come loose.

There's still lots to do but I'm not losing sleep over the size of the To Do list anymore! I also managed to get out 2 mornings to duck hunt and dropped a few. My new (to me) Winchester 3" Model 120 has done well!

Spent yesterday morning putting up the 6x6 posts & beams along with trusses (yes, I'm lazy) and furring strips on my sugarshack extension. Last major thing to do is put on the metal roof. After the roof goes on I can move my pile of firewood under a more permanent cover. Tarps only work just so well.

Still have to pour four more posts for my sap tank stand and put up a frame around the posts and fill with stone. I have everything... just have to find the daylight to do it.

Sure was a nice day to get out and get something done without melting from the heat!

Enjoy the cooler weather!!!
Keith

Built the platform for my head tank tonight. need to get my stack through the roof and get the evaporater insulated and bricked up. hunting season is right around the corner!!!

Parker, I'd talk to Larry Moore in Loudon. He has a 4x14 (I think) and he built an arch per Proctor spec. and he's loading pine every 20 min. or so. He's very happy with it. I can get you his contact information if you'd like.

Mainline work is almost done. I decided to extend a branch mainline to pick up a pocket of reds. This will need to be brought into the system with a lift. Had to re-work a mainline I previously installed because I had inadvertantly cut off a pocket of sugars with my wet/dry system with no way to get them into it. The re-work will actually work out better, but it's never fun adjusting something after the fact. Once I get the blue mainline, all of the mainline will be up.

Plan for this weekend is to set the 700 gal round bottom tank, set grade on the mainlines, and getting everything plumbed together.

For you guys with round bottom tanks, do you set them on anything? It's your standard round bottom tank with a metal frame and I was wondering if I should set it on pressure treated boards to distribute the weight or just set it on the ground. The area the tank is going can get wet during the spring.

We just make sure when we sit out tank is that theres slats (boards) laid on FLAT ground spaced out. just so the tank to sink in the ground when the ground thaws.

first off..it,s good to see ya on here casey..i haven,t seen you around in a long time and i was wondering where ya was hiding.

AMER GOLD WROTE:Parker, I'd talk to Larry Moore in Loudon. He has a 4x14 (I think) and he built an arch per Proctor spec. and he's loading pine every 20 min. or so. He's very happy with it. I can get you his contact information if you'd like.
i have a 4x14 i,ll be rebuilding and i,am wondering what this is all about??

delbert

Could someone tell me how to put pictures up? I would like to show poeple how i am doing on my sugar house.

You can post them on here or create a photo account like photobucket or one of the many others and post the link to it in your posts or in your signature.

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Originally Posted by Randy Brutkoski

Could someone tell me how to put pictures up? I would like to show poeple how i am doing on my sugar house.

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I made some instructions and posted them somewhere, but can't find them right now. All I can find are instructions on resizing pictures at this location http://www.mapletrader.com/community...ghlight=picasa