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If you go to the mapletrader.com page it is the fith one down on the list. open it and all it will let you do is search. Type in (for sale) or (wanted) in the search box and hit enter. that should get you there.Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerfamilymaple
Revi,
Hope you get to feeling better very soon!
Regards,
Chris
Beautiful day today. Temps were in the low 60's for us.
So I got out and finished up a few outside things.
I now have the cable for the stack cover done.
just in from sugar house got 1000 feet of main line wire srong got my two ladders all most ready for tubing after it got to dark outside went into sugar house and built manifolds for sap ladders and vacuum manifold/boster build hope to string my wet and dry lines tomorrow and install ladders and test hope weather holds out
high wind again today, need to take chainsaw for a walk, but this invasion of my sugar woods/ privacy continues another 5 days.
Guys- Ive been talking to guys up in vermont about fall tapping and the they told me in the fall they found the sap to be .75 to 1%. The other day I tapped a decent one tap tree and checked it today and guess what it was? 2.1 % Thats better than I ever saw last spring. Does that mean if I make BIGSAP with my BIG VACUUM Im going to fill MANY barrells this spring? Theron
Patheron last fall I ran some test taps in hopes of a fall taping on a bunch of trees I dont tap currently. Sap percent was high 1. and low 2. That same spring I averaged 2.1 for the season. Not sure if that means anything or not but I didnt personally see any difference in sugar content between fall and spring.
3rdgen- Im not posative either way either. The guys that did it in vermont were getting low sugar. About half normal and the studies show that too. I would say that my fall 2% is a real good sign that there is good sugar in the tree the only thing is is if we have a warm spring the further you get from an honest freeze thaw even with vac the sugar goes down. So even if the trees are sweet and I make sap with vac alone it will be low in sugar so we need the freezes if we can get them. I think its a good sign though. Im saying the sugar is high this year. Theron
Boyd,
Keep up the good work on the tubing and vacuum systems!
Yes I am also thinking about getting some more taps for 2011. Need to get on the road and find some big maples!
Regards,
Chris
Patheron, I personally cannot rely on any findings I had here at all last year anyways. Was definately a weird season for me. But I'm with you and am going into this season with a positive attitude and if you are getting 2% now I would think its going to be atleast as good and even better sugar content come spring. The only thing scaring me is that the summer and fall for my area is darn near identical to last. I have to check sugar content soon and see what happens this spring. If anything a couple years of comparison between fall and spring sugar content might just lead to some good data going into the season and what to expect.
3rdgen- You know most of this stuff isnt an exact science really. All you can do is kind of look for trends and watch what other people do and find and kind of try things. Im going to tap a few more here and there and see what I find. Im an optimist anyway so its more fun to think were going to have lots of sugar than to think were going to get skunked. I really do think this is a pretty good sign though. Theron
for me the weather and deer hunting has put the damper on doing sugaring stuff.i planned on taking today off from deer hunting to work on the roof.the day started out with pouring down rain and high winds then turned to snow.the ground is now covered.
delbert
Rode around on Eric's new Honda four wheeler, adjusted tree stands, took down tree stands, sighted in deer rifles, ate turkey left overs, got to meet and play with Erics new pup Sadie, visited with Keith Talbot and saw his new Polaris side by side, and his evaporator all set and ready for the spring. Keith is going to put up a little tubing at the back of his place maybe 50 taps on gravity. He has about 5 or six cord of wood split small and stacked in the sugar house ready to go.
Did some final MIG welding on the AOF TRS and air tested it. Seems like it will work. No holes except where intended.
Good day but cold, the wood fire in the house felt real good too.
Good luck to the hunters, on Monday, opening day of rifle season in PA.
Regards,
Chris
Well the frame and shell are all up on the new facility. Been a long time coming, and to think four weeks ago this was cow pasture!
Hope to get alot more done this coming week!
Research on fall tapping....link below. Every now and then this is tried....it never seems to work out well. I believe that a sizeable producer in northern Vermont did a fairly good-sized trial last year. From what I understand, they aren't going to be doing it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by PATheron
http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/newtown_squa...nned/rp115.pdf
Cold one today...spent the morning finishing up framing out the last two sides of the shack. Got two windows in before the wind picked up. Last dinner today at 4. Hopefully we will have all the windows in before the day is out.
Big place!Quote:
Originally Posted by wglenmapler
Looks like you put down a lot of gravel.No getting stuck in the mud.
Wglen- Looks great. Keep the pics coming especially when you start getting stuff inside. Theron
Well after getting a little nervous about this being the hardest deer season I have ever had and the first year I was about to go deerless in atleast 10 years my stepson wakes up and looks out the window and says when this whiteout quits were going hunting. Well I really was at the point of giving up on the season and decided what the heck lets go. We get on a set of fresh track and follow this dang deer for 4 hours jump him 3 times when he makes a mistake and heads down into the river valley. Hes got no where to go without us seeing him on top of the ridge. We get on top of the ridge and see him about 150 yds away. Put the binos on him since this is our first good look at him and I say to my stepson hes to small just a 7pt and needs a year before I will consider it. He whispers to me you havent been deerless since I have known you and this would be our first deer together you got to take him. So I put the scope on him and pulled the trigger on the 30.06. The smile on his face holding that buck was better than any big buck I have ever shot. I guess sometimes its not all about the headgear and just the memories in the field with family.
Split and stacked another half cord of pine. Now I have around 5 cords done and ready to go. That should last me 2 years. Tommorrow Im going to go pick up a bulk tank. I thinks its 250-300 gallons. Hopefully I will run a mainline in my neibors woods tommorow or after school this week.
Picked up my new to me evaporator today. A 3x12 grim arch with a 10' raised flue pan and a 2' syrup pan for $2500. It also has a hood and pre-heater. Also got a 250gal stainless insulated tank for $300, and a 13gal water jacket bottler for $100. Will try to post pics tomorrow.
Nick
Getting sanborns buttoned up..took a vessel off the r.o. tonight and took the membranes out with some help fron tkrmtn and some friends...think it might be the original membranes fron 1987,,,just wrapped up perferated plastic sheet and paper like stuff inbetween the layers of plastic? OLD SCHOOL
well today is the last day so i can get my life back. traffic has been so heavy that i cant stand it anymore and the gun shots at dark i hope will be gone. nov might as well be considered the worst month of the year. it always puts me behind because it is not safe to work here. i am sick of hearing bullets going thru the trees. finding bird shot in my tubing. and bullet holes in my main lines.
I had my first Christmas fair of the season yesterday and it went good. I hope the next few I have are as good. The last week I have been spending every night getting ready. I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving and now to sell a lot of maple before Christmas
Keith
nas,
Looking forward to the pictures of the new rig. should be a nice unit and will boil like mad for you. does that mean more taps too?
Regards,
Chris
Here are pictures of it set up at the former owner's and loaded on the trailer. I hope to unload it tomorrow.
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...evaporator.jpg
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...01128-1449.jpg
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...01128-1450.jpg
I would like to get up to around 400 taps this season and add a couple hundred every year. I got a couple of old vacuum pumps with it too, so I might try them this year too.
nas,
Looks like a good find and lots of syrup to be made. Good luck with it. I dont think you could have fit much more on that trailer, thats always a good thing when its full of maple stuff!
Scott
nas,
Looks like a lot of evaporator there. Good value from what I can see. That's a huge rear pan! I am sure you will have it polished up and ready to go for the spring. That rig may eat through sap from 400 taps very quickly.
I see the previous owner had a bee problem too!
Thanks for posting the pictures!
Regards,
Chris
Tomarrow is season opener for deer down here at Pierce and sons. I can shoot a buck and a doe and brother can shoot a buck. Hoping to be standing ankle deep in brass by noon. Theron
Bent up the Stainless steel for the sides of my evaporator today. The peices aren't quiet long enough so I need to bring them to my dads buddies house so he can weld more to them. Also got a sunset milk tank from the they guy I got my evaporator from. He gave it to me with the evaporator I just never had a chance to pick it up. The model # is MC-200PX. I'm assuming that it's 200 gallons. Were going to build a base for it sot it sits outside the sugar shack and acts as a feed tank for the evaporator. Not much more time till the season starts.
I finally finished up the front room of the sugarhouse today. I mudded the walls behind the woodstove yesterday, so today I sanded, painted and put trim up. Not bad. I call it sugarhouse carpentry, because I use rough wood and it's not too fussy. The woodstove in there makes it a good place to work on a chilly day. I guess 10 years is enough time, so it's good to be done.
I finished up my studio this summer, and then I realized that the other end was rotting. It took me 20 years to bring that project to completion. I guess I am in the mood for finishing projects this year.
I have some other projects in mind, so it's good to get these two done. For now...
Wisconsin gun hunt just finished yesterday, Had a dream season that will never ever happen again. Got a 8 pt, a 9 pt, and a 12 point. (group hunting/group tagging legal in Wis.) I was in the right place at the right times. Today i'm going to walk pipeline and take any limbs and trees off the lines. Mild weather today, 40 degrees.
In for breakfast from hunting. So far our group has put down three doe, one by me. Head back out after some coffee and go for the big Buck. Good luck to all those hunting today. Be safe.
Thursday, dug trench for electric service and ate turkey.
Friday, got wire and supplies and installed. Went to the woods to better cover my tank and level it and proceeded to get my truck stuck. Fortunately my Uncle was driving by and he pulled me out.
Saturday, Bought and bottled 20 gallons of syrup.
Sunday, Installed drops and saddles on 90 taps and ran 2 rolls of tubing.
Back from Goodriches with 20 rolls of 30-p and 7 rolls 3/4",,,,,,GOTIME!!!
Is that brass or b.s. I couldnt understand the translation.Quote:
Originally Posted by PATheron
I need to get in the woods and finish my tubing up grades!!!! Town meeting tonight 6:30. Don't know if I will go or not??? My son's b-day today 5years old man where does the time go???? He start kindergarden next year.
busy with family stuff nasty head cold mon, tues, wed and trying to refinance house appointments paperwork blah blah blah!!! leaves are done finally around wind and rainy days. Gotta try to get the driveway markers in before the ground gets too much more frozen!! maybe a little snow on saturday here don't know how much yet maybe nothing. gotta get the snow blower on the tractor some time this week maybe?. sugar house is a mess boxes fitting etc everywhere!!! Got x-mas lights on the house spent too much time on that they worked for 2 days. now there is a string out on the top roof, 2 sections of icicle lights out 1 headless raindeer, and the new big LED snowflake is out geez!!! And it get dark at 4:30 sucks!!! stupid time change anyway!!!
i finely got back to some sugaring stuff.tonight after work i started working on my rollup door for the woodshed end of my little sugarhouse.a friend gave me a bunch of garage door track and the hardwear.so,i figured i,de make a four foot wide garage type door for the woodshed end.
delbert
What ever happened to the Canadian wannabe,KENWP. Havent seen any post from him. He was good for at least 50 post a week.
Well, deer season is pretty much over. Good thing my son-in-law shot his first deer otherwise no vension in my freezer. We spent some time cutting and splitting wood this weekend to get ready for next year. I came up with a new fixture to cut the kiln dried kindling wood that my buddy Doug gets from one of his suppliers worked great! Check out my flickr site to see it if you're interested.