Haynes,
Are you not concerned somewhat about any of the residue of the oven cleaner being left behind in the pans and contaminating the next batch of syrup as it always seemed pretty strong to me.
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Haynes,
Are you not concerned somewhat about any of the residue of the oven cleaner being left behind in the pans and contaminating the next batch of syrup as it always seemed pretty strong to me.
Haynes,
I agree with WVM, aren't you concerned about residue? As A chef when cleaning the ovens at work there is always a residual smell that comes off the oven at the first use. having said that I guess I'm confused. Are we talking about cleaning the inside or the bottom of the pan? If we are talking about the inside I am wondering where the "oily" comes from?
I hear you easterners talking about tapping in late Jan or Feb and thats makes me think, when do you finish your season?
Very seldom do we in Wis tap in late Feb. We are usually in March, and are done by mid April. We get 6 or 7 weeks of potential season.
In that time we go from snowshoes to turkey hunting in tee shirts!!!
FYI, this morning, it was minus 25 at home, and on my way to work near Minong WI it was minus 31. Now that will get your attention in a hurry.
that's the kind of attention I don't like.... brrrrrrrr I work in a school system on HVAC... the last thing I want is a frozen school and it going on the news.... thats good for my job reputation...NOT!!!... it happens but I'd rather it didn't
Jeff E
I normally tap Presidents day weekend.And I have boiled as late as April 25th. Here it depends on the elevation a lot. there is a board member that is about 40 miles east of me and 30 miles south. He is typically done at the very least 2 weeks before me and he will tap around the same time as me. I am 30 miles North of I 80 and60 miles from the Ohio border.
I usually tap around Feb 1 to 10th and am done around March 21st. Last year, I tapped last Sat in January.
This year I will plan on setting the taps the end of Jan, Last year I waited till Pres day and I think I missed out on the early stuff.
I think for me once this cold snap is over and it starts to above freezing it will be go time for me, but you just never can tell what the weather will do next.
I finally finished the new tubing install up the road. Lots of little sap ladders so the family who owns it can walk/ski through the woods easily. Got to love vacuum! I received news last night that I am still cancer free.
UHG WHERE DID THIS GOD AWFUL COLD COME FROM?
how am i suposed to work in the woods w/ it like this?
Van that is great news! And your getting a lot done. Your an inspiration! Now I should get going on my stuff! I'm slacking!
DanO
You put your long handles on and your mucklucs and go get er dun!
great news van on both fronts
Alright Van! Now you got to go for the syrup!
Layers, layers and more layers! As long as I can keep my feet, head and hands warm I enjoy working in really cold weather. I plan to stretch a couple hundred taps worth of semi-rigid on Saturday morning and it's supposed to be close to -30 overnight. I enjoy a challenge...Quote:
Originally Posted by dano2840
Congrats on the great news Mountainvan!
Agreed-Great news Van.
That is better than any Tsunami sap, magic whizbang RO or hyper efficient evaporator news!
We have a limited time, it is just great to have it be a little less limited!!!!
got the vac pump today going to start to hook it up this week end hope to have it all ready for the season how far do you all think i could run a dry line to a second releaser i was thinking like a mile is that to far
Just came in from working on a road side bush.I am putting 3/4" pipe in it so my sap collectors won't have to climb up and down the bank with buckets. I will probably get twice as much sap, just from it not being spilled.I love this weather,cold snowing and blowing. Thank God for Hi-tech clothing. I don't have to wear all that heavy clothing to stay warm. I haven't even had to get the wool out yet,but I think it may be coming.
its nasty out i worked in the woods for an hour and i must have gotten a bad pair of foot warmers cause they lasted for 30 minutes, UHG
I never got along with those foot warmers. I just wear a pair of heavy cotton socks (not the best choice) and a pair of med wt wool blend socks under a pair of Muck boots. As long as I am not keeping motionless my feet are good. And my circulation is not as good as it was 40 years ago, (or 50 or sixty for that matter) but proper layering sure does help. I got the Muck boots by default in Jan 04 when I was first building my sugarhouse. I had another pair of boots that I bought during Dec of 03 and they cracked along the back just above the heal. When i took them back to complain they said to pick out another pair. I looked and they were out of my size in what I thought I wanted, and all they had in my size was the muck boots. At first I looked at them and was going to decline because they were made in China but then I realized I would have to order something to work on my future sugarhouse in and did not want to wait. That was the best thing that ever happened as far as boots go. These were light weight, pull on insulated packs but they turned out to be the first pair i ever owned that kept my feet warm without being so heavy they wore me out walking in them. The insulation looks to be the same as a neoprene insulated dry suit, very light and warm and comfortable. They are now the only thing I will buy as long as i can find them. By the way, i am still wearing the same pair, with a few rips in the outer covering but I still do not get a wet foot. Like I say, warm if i am moving, not quite warm enough when i sit on deer stand for colder weather long sits. To be the warmest try a pair of wool liner socks or one of the new synthetic moisture wicking socks as a 1st layer, then a med wt wool sock and then a pair of Muck boots. Buy the boots big enough so they are slightly loose but not too loose with the sock layers on.
my feet sweet to much when i double up, even with single wool socks, ivefound the foot warmers work well w/ heavy wool socks because they keep my feet from sweeting
This weather is how Jeasus shows his childred he loves us! I suffer threw summer AND HOPE TO GET A LITTEL OF THIS GOOD STUFF!!!!!! Was down in the sugar house getting my Mr. heater- propane flame wand-battery boster pack and a couple 20LB propane tanks when I found this list,,,writtten in the last days of the 08 season:
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-2009 priorites-
#1 Airtight front
#2 Big blower-brick grates
#3 ready to tap by Feb.15 (all lines checked)
#4 Permanent Elec. and water to sugarhouse
#5 40 cords in the shed
#6 get your thumb out of your a$$ and tap 400 new trees
Well,, the air tight front is at the welders,,its possibel Ill have brick grates and the big blower hooked up, REALLY slacking checking the lines, gonna be the welder for elec. and the preheater for water in the sugarhouse agine,did get 24 cords of real nice wood in (another 20 unsplit outside),,400 looking questionable at this point,,,TTHHHEEERRROONN- can some of that up and send it up here,,I have some odds and ends to work on,,,
Parker- You gotta WANNNNNNT IT!! If I didnt have a town job Id be right up. Ive come to the conclusion everything takes at least twice as long as a guy thinks usually more. Seems like youve got to dang near kill yourself to get anything done. Gotta figure your at least as good as you were last year and if you get one thing done on the list its a huge success. Brother always tells me, while hes playing guitar hero in his jamys, if I just keep doing a little every day Ill get the syrup stuff done. Its nice to have his support like that. Just keep keepin on buddy youll get it. Theeeron
high of -5 today didnt get to work in the woods out of supplies hoping to be in the woods by the weekend and finish up this one line.
sounds like you doing good van
cancer free :D\
thats always good to hear
nate
If you are working in wet conditions where rubber boots are justified or for hunting, it is hard to beat Cabelas Duratrax boots for comfort. They are lighter than about any other boots including muck boots and they are built on a tennis shoe platform and are very comfortable. Sometimes I walk 6 miles or more in a day hunting in them and my feet never get sore or uncomfortable and they are very warm and available without insulation, 800 gram and 1200 gram Thinsulate.
I definitely agree with Dave that the Arctic Sport Muckboots are a great thing! I've had Lacrosse Iceman(warm but heavy) and some tall Lacrosse that were great, but the muck boots stay dry and warm. I was out all afternoon in 10 degree weather with just a pair of lite cotton socks, and was fine as long as I was busy. Or I like my alpacas socks when I'm not moving around as much.
Tim
Jrthe- What are you running for a vac pump? Theron
Siemens nash elmo gas ring 6 hp 35 cfm
Mountainvan,
That is absolutly great, wonderful!!!!
Dave
got in a lil sqermish w mom last night got grounded uuggghhhh, its 17 below outside any way so i wasnt planning on working in the woods any way. so i gues its ok. still makes me kinda mad.................... she just has her days where if you say "hi" you've already done some thing wrong. idk what i did last night she asked me if we had a smaller screw driver and i said no (ididnt know of a smaller one than the one in her hand) she said to come help her look for one, i said i cant help you if we dont have a smaller one and it went dow hill from there,
well needed a place to vent, thanks for listening, couldnt vent to my friends in mid terms today as we werent alowed to talk but now im waiting for a friend to finish up a little thing he had for band to give me a ride home, maybe i will sneek into the woods, moms not suposed to be home til 12:30 ish any way! maybe not, i dont think i plugged the ol jd in so i doubt shes gunna fire up and come play with me, probably will just split up some wood.
Dan, Don't push it man!!!
When the momma lion is cross, stay clear. The last thing you want to do is deliberately put yourself in from of the claws!
Next time, volunteer to do the dishes or dinner, takes 30 minutes and buys you way more time and trust for future 'I gotta get the woods work done' times.
Hang in there little bro!
and one of those days she will be gone or be so far away you hardly get to see her and then you will wish she was back around. One of these days, you will be in her shoes with ambitious teenagers that need thousands of dollars for an RO or car, etc! LOL
im staying right here in vt she wont go far away
my kids are gunna work in my sugar house not start their own, So y would they ask me for thousands of dollars?.........................hehehe
the only other problem i have right now is
I STILL NEED AN EVAPORATOR!!!!
Hey Dano,
You got a job?
in tha summer time, right now my job is go to school hang pipe, 5 days aweek and then hang pipe hang pipe on the weekends
Dano,
What's your summer job?
Picked up the gate keys yesterday for my north bush. took a ride in, everything looks great. I'll start in there putting up mainline on Sunday.
This morning its a tad nippy a- -11 so maybe I should add a layer or wear a hat. Just starting to get cold ;)
cuttin' grassQuote:
Originally Posted by 3% Solution
but i gues the real job tittle is professional landscaper, we do a tiney bit of land scaping but we mow 5 days a week, i started out as the trimmer guy, and did a tiney bit of mowing on the ZTRs but then his other guy who had worked for him for years left to work for a company where he could get benifits, and gues who gotta promotion! since he left most of the day is on the ZTR. They're big yella hustlers. "the worlds fastest mower" and they are, on a soccer field thats probably 6-7 acres we have it mowed in 40-50 min, they do 15mph and he tells me to go as fast as they can on the straight aways, he asked me if i would work this summer, i said yes then he said good now i can give you your raise.
$12 an hour, YAY!
i like it, reg hours, Its nicer than the irregular hrs working on the farm, and the moneys better, leaves more time to get my personal work done, like mowing my own accounts,....... Ididnt have a car last year so i would drive my mowers down the road, thats how i got them there and thats how i got them home. also leaves time to get my sugaring stuff done like putting up sugar wood, and other logging, brush hogging, garden making, and all the other things ppl hire me for....
yestarday i tried to fire up the vac pump, i gues it doesnt work well when its 2 degrees, it plugs in hard to the extension cord, when the motor fired up and was struggleing i started to wiggle the plug to get it out of the extension cord, before i could get it unplugged it tripped the GFI outlet on the outside of my house, then i went to reset it to plug my tractor back in and i think it was froze up cause the reset button wouldnt reset it. NOW HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET INTO THE WOODS IF THE TRATER WONT START????
ok we had a 90 min delay and im finaly at school ive gotta take my drivers licence test in about 10 min, its -24 outside, my feet are hurting some thing terrable from waiting for the bus gotta thaw them out so i can drive w/ my drivers ed teacher and get my license! it doesnt matter any way if i cant afford to pay the insurace because sugarings used up my money. im gunna get on my moms insurance but its still 700 bucks, uggggggg
mapleman3,
Yup, getting cold here too ................ -22 last night!!!!
Now that'll put a snap in your shorts!!!
Dano,
Sounds like you've got a good summer job there (plus your own work).
When I was your age I worked in the cemetary department, like you say it was steady and the pay was good.
Good luck on your driver's test!!!
Dave