Brad, Sorry to hear about your friend. Not good:(
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Brad, Sorry to hear about your friend. Not good:(
Sorry to hear of your friend Brad.
Tons of maple stuff going on here everyday now. Got releasers in the living room being prepped to put into place. Got a guy helping me do stuff in the shed. Dads still cutting wood. I put out 1800' of suction line last night across the ground to feed a releaser. Ive got to finish that up. Then Im going to run electric to my one releaser location to run a sump pump and light bulb then I should be able to hook everything up. Got three tanks to put in place and two releasers and mainline connections and that should be pretty much it. HOPE to be done 100% be then end of the month. If I do that and Im tapped in first week of feb I MAY go put more out. Got to see how it goes and what the temps are. If Feb is totally froze up I MIGHT be able to hook another 600 taps together. It wont be pretty if I do but SAP IS SAP BABY!!! Looking for BIGGGGGGG SAPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!! this year. Theron
Picked up a big woods last night. Should be able to run 500+ taps and the best part is I can run a stock tank down to a driveway and back my truck right in for pick up. Evaporator should show up next week. Between firebricking, running lines and gettin the shack ready I am glad we still have 7 weeks or so until the season begins.
Chris
Busy in NH as well. Flat47 is coming down to pick up my old 2x4. I happened to run into a neighbor down the road at a boxing day party that I usually skip, that asked me to come down and check out his woods for trees. Amber Gold and I cruised it last weekend. Josh being the vac addict that he is figures there is at least 500 attainable in there. Just going to mickey mouse it this year with probably 100 on tubing. This might mean another annual evaporator jump next spring.
Right now I'm waiting on 10 yards of crushed stone so I can start building my sugar house MLK weekend, and then worry about bricking etc.
Way way way not ready yet.
Nice to hear about the new bush. You will be happy with the 2 by 6. You will boil 35 gallons an hour with the hood on and preheater working. good luck with the shack.
Chris
Thanks guys for sentiments.
Yeah gotta wait for next year for my vacuum too. but I was going to stop at 277taps on gravity tubing... but... you know....:evil: I still have like 750 feet of tubing left and like 75 more tree saver taps well uuumm maybe put in a few more I got the trees, and extra barrels for collecting points hhhmmmm we'll see maybe just add...#@$%$%^&%^ ADDICTED MAN!!!
I am sure I will over 300 before I start to tap!!
Brad,
You have lots of room left. I'll probably be at 350+ taps on vacuum with a 2x6! Happy boiling
Mike
shoveled the snow and ice off the tank shed yestarday, i gotta put some real rafters up and put a tin roof on it a plastic roof just doesnt shed snow like it does rain! shouldnt be too hard. put the last of the slab that was split and stacked into the wood shed, just have 4 or 5 cord out into the pasture to move in now, then start on fixing the main line that was smashed, tighten up laterals, my buddy really sprained his shoulder and tor something, so at some point i got to go put a roof and a coupala on his sugar house i have WAY to much to do but next semester i get out at 12 so that will give me more time to get things done
i also shoveled 3plus feet of snow off of the sugar house roof my last look at the weather was that we were goimg to get another 3 feet this weekend