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Well If you have not penetrated that mainline yet and the end is capped Im guessing 27 inches:) If you got 300 holes in it I bet your hoping 27 inches.Quote:
Originally Posted by PATheron
Been watching the temps ever so closely. Fall tapping is getting close.
Time To Get A Little Mud On The Tires, Yes that is a line from one of WV native Brad Pasiley's hit in reference to the bank finally coming thru with the loan. Well Farm Credit finally came thru and I'm ready to tube the woods I leased for next season. Should have 1600 extra taps on line for next season. All on high Vacuum, hoping for 20 gallons of sap per tap hole. If that were to happen I could pay off the loan next spring, well as long as the bubble does burst in the syrup market.
Mark 220 Maple
I need a 1 1/4 inches. That would be 31.75 mm but of course that's metric. That is the size of hole I hope to cut. It can be a tiney bit bigger and a tiney bit smaller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred Henderson
It's getting close to frost here also tonight. Have had the fire going a bit to keep me warm. She who has to be obeyed dosn't seem to ever get cold but suffers once in a while just for me.
The people at school have touques on already and winter coats. Can't wait when it's 25 or 30 below they will need a pint of booze to keep warm.
Brandon- I know, pretty terreble huh? I put the pump on it and had 24" at the 5500' mark. Now Ive got about 1500 more to go Id guess. Like Parker says youve got to WANNNNNT IT!!! Looks like there is gong to be about 350 taps on the line. Real nice ones though, had to do it. Ill have that done this week. Then I have another run to do above the shed thats Probly 4 or 5000 feet Id say that has 500 real nice ones on it. Gonna take more pump to get it done. Im going to buy a 100 cfm pump to run with the 60 Ive got and I think that should do it. I was kind of worried about having stuff done on time but Im getting pretty clever at running tubing and its going faster than I thought. Fun to experiment. Boy this weekend was beautifull to work in the woods. Gotta love fall. Theron
3rdgen, Did you tap yet?
well my buddy missed his alarm on sat and picked me up at 630 gues we werent going to get in our tree stands early enough so we decided road hunting (yes with our bows- i know it sounds smart) was our best option and we did see deer but they were on a posted field. FML our other buddy shot a doe that evening but we hunted till about 11 then we hitched up my buddies trailer to his jeep and went after a load of slab wood. since im the only one in our tight group of friends who owns a saw i cut wood for every one else, me and austin cut a cord of slabs and piled it 5feet above the rails of his trailer. brought it home split it and stacked it. he had to work at 4 so i went home and jumped in my tree stand. nothing i was walking out got out of the woods and into the field and was about 10feet away from the brook when a monster 8 point jumped out of the ravine infront of me and just about ran me over. i was awstruck for about 5 seconds then i reallized omg im supposed to shoot at that so i launched one at it about 80 yards missed by a mile, sunday was a repeat of sat just w out the monster 8 point we did shoot at some turkeys though it was fun
Been snowing here all day
snow tonight, above 1500 ft there calling for snow, well guess who that is ME! yesterday and today me and my girlfriend went up to my new sugarbush and ran 1000 ft of 3/4 inch pipe and got it all twist tied up and half one line all side tied, should be running 5/16 next weekend, still got to get out to my tree stand and blast one, maybe a bear,
hope everyone is doing good, Winter is coming fast!
Mostly rain in the Green Bay area...
got home late sunday nite with my new pans from WF MASON, they look good. also would like to thank him again for the good hospitality he gave me and my wife.
also a good word for for ANDY in BRADFORD VT. for hosting a BBQ, where i got to meet vv,peace,supersappy, tapme, gov, maplecrest, and " garlic jerry"
RICH