oops, that would put me over the 5,000 for 09 do you want me to change my sig. when its final??
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oops, that would put me over the 5,000 for 09 do you want me to change my sig. when its final??
Snoop- Don't "put the last nail in the coffin"/Do you think he is ready for it yet?
oh gov, that is not the last nail, I still have a ace up the sleve :)
oops, may I refrase that 2 ace's up the sleve... I have stuff even Gov, my busness partner hasn't even heard :) :) :)
well havent had time to post been working on the sugar house and wood pile. ive been working on my pilots liscence to. got 4 cords split and stacked.
Just got off the phone w/partner=And he said there is going to be some serious boat rocking going on the high sea's ahead. Gonna need more then the bilge pump for this one boys and girls. Strap on your hula hop life ring.
Got the new rig in today. Leader 3x8 infero wood arch, max flue pan with revolution ft pan and max steam away. 220-245 gph leader claims.
need more taps now
alls I can say is lol lol lol!!!!! Man when things happen they happen!!! Thanks Theron you where the boot in the @$$ I needed!!! :)
Andy- You get all the tube you have in the woods now hooked together and get all those tanks in place Youll kick all our butts. Only thing going for me is Ive got Booy and Brother down here on my team. Cant beat the power of the kid. Energy all over the place, just got to harness it. Brother is running on pure maple syrup. Kid eats a drum a year. Gets kind of costly but hes a good little worker. Hes a high performance piece of equipment and he needs his fuel. Guess I better try to get something done. Got rained off yesterday. Zar
Well I can't keep up the pace with you mega tappers but I cut in 50 more yesterday on the new bush.Rain was steady yesterday but not cold until evening. Have main lines already run in new bush and have 281 now,could pick up 3-400 more if I had the time.(already have the taps and 4 rolls of lateral) But I think we will have to settle for what we got for this spring. Running out of good weather! Have to run the 1" vac line up over the road and set the tank and make accommidation for the releaser before the weather gets REAL bad and then we wait.
Should have about 1100 on vac come spring.
Jim
Jim- Were mostly just hot air. Zar
jim, no need to keep up, or try.. Do the best you can, make the best product you can, and be very happy with that.. Oh and throw in a rib poke here and there whenever you can...
Jim,
these guys are still young and wet behind the ears, not mature and wise like you!
LOL!
The family and I just got back from pulling mainline and tubing from a bush I used to use that produced SQUAT !! at least I can salvage some things like the 9 gauge wire and the mainline is still in great shape for??? what I don't know but. the laterals are shot... lots chewed up down and filthy. but at least it's out of there now.
Problem with that bush
A-not enough grade
B- too many hemlocks
C- mostly reds that didn't give much sap
it would have been useful if it was in my backyard I could have thinned real good and ran vacuum but.......
well made the best of a bad time made some cream with dark syrup to see how it would turn out it tastes so sweet it is great made some maple sugar also burned up to food processors then went to see my aunt to see what she had she sent me home with an old hand crank flour grinder in work awsome
Boyd,
Thought that was you. You stopped and visited at the sugarhouse one day a while back. Hope the 100 taps is working out for 09. I am going to stick with about 400.
We are getting hit, as probably you are too, with 6 inches of lake effect snow. Great! I am supposed to get new tires on the car tomorrow , IF I can make it to Erie. It has been handling very poorly in snow.
Hey Father and Son, Hows your 500 doing in the snow??
Finally saw the new 09 F150 Ford on commercial tonight while watching the Ford 400 NASCAR race. Looks about like the F250 from the front of the truck.
Wood boxes are full and the furnace is roaring.
Finished extracting the rest of the honey yesterday (4 supers) and now have about 165 lb of fall honey.
Nic got a nice jake bird yesterday behind the house. Eric missed a medium racked 8 point just after the rain stopped yesterday also about 300 yards back of the sugarhouse. He was a little upset since thats the second buck he missed this year.
Chris
ya chris that was me we are getting hit hard with the white stuff i have to go to work to night as i look out my window it is looking like they are going to close 79 it is bad
Boyd,
Be careful out there I-79 is really bad with west winds. Keep the shiny side up!
Chris
well atleast i amnot the only one missing bucks
Jim-
you are way too spoiled with those bucket trees. Then you go check some gravity tubing and you wonder why you have it up.
Hemlocks, and red maples. Wait, were you up here and pulling all my mainlines down?
ok royal u go missing then show back up and we loose supper sappy ... whats going on
lol i just watched your drum collapse ...lol
i dont know maybe supper sappy got royal hooked on sailor jerry ... and she gave them something
i was just wondering is that one that u are trying to sell lol
Peacemaker,
Yea there is a lot of room around them!
Looking forward to rifle season with my grandson Mike. He has not harvested a deer yet and I think this may be the year. Since he still has a junior license he doesn't have to be worried about the PA points rules. There are at least 4 bucks in the area too.
Chris
nice i usaul head to jersey to fill the frezzer ..but yesterday i had one come in and i never saw his whole set of horns so i had to let him walk we are 3poinr=ter or better here but today when he came strollinh=g in are worked up over some hot doe i walked down ... past my stand i let him have it he spun around like it hit him and stumbled like i did but i took my wifes 243 cause it has a 4 power scope ... what i should have had was my 12 with buck shot like i love
Peacemaker,
Sounds like a dead deer to me! The .243 will do the job too.
Chris
i know but i spent 2 hours on my hands and knees tacking him out of the pines and into the swamp ... without a drop of blood or hair ...
Yeah Matt, I was hoping you wouldn't see me..hehehe
My bucket trees were way too good to me this year, it was amazing to see my wife and kids come back 2 times will a full tank on the truck almost each day!!!
as I raise my glass... "here's to a super season coming again.. hopefully" !!!
Ok peace,here I am- Been working up with the neighbor this last week on his farm. Then A bunch of hill billies showed up on wed from south carolina for deer season on saturday. My buddy hits a phantom buck with a bow and did not get it. So they all sat in the green house and got drunk and talked about deer hunting. The typical hunting stuff went on this past weekend with the opening of NYstate southern zone rifle season. My next door neighbor Elmer Fudd chased a six pointer right across the back lawn at the sugar house wile I was changing the oil on the tractor. He wound up in the back yard of the house and Elmer was kind of put out when I said he had to gut it somewere else. I wouldnt pull it out with the tractor cuz it would rut up the lawn,Sold some syrup to all of the out of towners, Hooked up the gas finisher on the new countertop, Now I need to can up some syrup. Then I went down to the farm to see the phantom buck that was guned down this morning. He had been shot in the throat with 1 arrow , turu the front shoulder with another and they found a 50 cal musket ball from last year in his side. It was a real big 10 pointer. The southern boys tried to tie the horns on the brown dog "GRINCH STYLE" but she has seen that movie and wasnt into it.I returned 26 dollars in deposite cans from the green house. I also had a 1/2 gallon of shorgum molassas given to me that was homemade. On a side note you guys from the state of NH can really shoot. The three guys that hunted here from Alstead took home nice bucks including the 10 ptr. With the locals not getting the deer they will all be in foul moods this week . I need to get some time and start putting up some more tubing. Did any of the other ny producers get a survey in the mail from Cornell this week?-SS
SS,
No survey yet. Supposedly all members of the state assn. are to get one.
Guess they are looking into the feasability of a bottling plant in NY.
Peace-
Those drums are 1/2 price. Nice thing is you can fit more on a trailer, so it is a double whammy.
No sailer jerry yet. Russ just got me a bottle of captain this weekend. I'm not a machine. I will try sailer soon enough.
I think my body is just getting back to normal after that LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ride to Doug's(thompson's tree farm). Thanks for the tour and you have some serious potential there, just time and money need to be added to the mix and syrup should be the end result. Wait till I get my pump running before you crank that sucker up. I want a little water left in the ground for my trees.
The deer are liking the results of operation devistation. I saw alot of tracks out there the other day. Now if I can get some of the wood out, maybe I can go in there and harvest a wall hanger.
I'm sure it is like anything but the guys from NH in Russ's neighborhood sure weren't the ones you had in NY super sappy. Holy moly. It was like WWII in his area and unless they had alot of tags to fill there are alot of maples and hemlocks with wounds.
My brother and I worked all day in the pouring rain on Saturday to stretch lines in our upper bush. At 10 C above freezing it was better to stretch in the rain than try to do it in the spring.
Saturday evening we packaged up the last of our 2008 syrup. We got a large order for 100mL plastic and 250mL glass plus some other misc sizes that drained us. I wish we had more to sell but it's also nice to know we can focus on getting the bush ready for next spring.
Yesterday we also got the mainline up for the upper part of our sap ladder. All I need to do is get a few fittings for the vertical pipe and it's ready to go. We also replaced about 300' of black mainline that was almost 30 years old.
Ennis,
For your sap ladder, are you running the stars with 5/16ths between? How far, and how many taps are you lifting?
Thanks,
Tim
Ennis
I also have a couple of questions. How much vacuum do you need to lift say 40-60 taps 6-8 feet?(we have about 25 inches when running) and how many ladders can a person run when you have 4-500taps on the same vac system?
I know about as much about sap ladders as a pig knows about Sunday!other than you use 6 ways top and bottom and 5/16 in between. thats my entire knowledge about sap ladders.
Thanks
Jim
I've been paying attention and there was a link in the Vacuum section with a thread called "lift" started by PATheron/Better known as nailed in a coffin. :D
I also know nothing about sap ladders, but would like to. Can anyone take a few pics of theirs, or sketch one and upload the diagram?? THANKS
Royal maple has videos of his in his video link..
The crew of team sap had a meeting today, The two parties walked away with some big numbers, and plans, to take to the bean counters, and see what happens.. looks very promising to raise the connectuit river with permiate in the very near future... tap counts could be a issue, due to the fact we don't have enough fingers and toes to go that high,even counting them by the thousand, but we will eventually call in the big guns from PA to help us count... Stay tuned for more breakling news, as it happens...
hey great foamy how did u make out today ... 5 dollar fix on jens tire and back up and running ...yippie