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LoL to late. When I got home she asked me what I bought. I looked at her and said what makes you think I bought something? Reply- the smile on your face. Its amazing all the stuff I found that suddenly needs welding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yellzee
3rdgen,
Nice score on the welders! You will find many maple uses for the TIG , I am sure. I only have three and really need a TIG to round out the herd.
Chris
when,you get that tig tuned in let me know..i have some welding for ya.. :lol:
delbert
If this turns out like most things in my life I will soon be upgrading to a better one. Delbert if I get this tig thing down I would be glad to help a fellow mapletrader.
Sell it on here when you don't need it we all know what you paid for it now!:evil::o:lol:
I actually probably would offer it up on the trader. Just not any time soon got to get handy with it first before I would upgrade lol. I would pass along the deal as well Im not going to get rich of a welder and if it made someone elses day down the road Im good with that. Now lets not flood my PM box with " I want it's" lol.
Checking in from Lyons, NY Going to be hard season. The snow is over a deers back and its only December. It's just out of hand here! Breaking out roads with the team now just in case it keeps coming. All the lines are down and under the snow. Can't get to the fire wood that didn't get cut yet. The sugar house has been taken over by 100 hens. So, as far as things go around here. Every thing is right on track. Hope every one has a great holiday season.
Well...finally got Bobs instalation finished,,9800' mainline and wire,3200' from the tank to the last tap,19 lateral mainlines,,over 270 hose clamps,,,would have been finished much sooner (the original plan was for 9 lateral mainlines) but wound up spending alot of time cutting brush for additional mainlines....the system is set up better than any of my woods,,,cant wait to see how it runs this spring!! It was a ball setting up this system!
spent most of the day yesterday and till noon today over at Putney Rd. trying to get that all ready to tap. I am hoping that we are over 200 taps over there once we get the sap ladder all set-up. some nice fast growing 9-10" trees down low that I think will run well. probably have about a 1/2- 3/4 of a day more over there and it will be ready to tap. Then its off to Hattens in Salisbury Heights to reconfigure that set-up.
Like the Lapierre slide fittings for bringing in laterals in to the main- the more perpendicular the better...
taking the rest of the week off from maple- heading up to Jay Peak on Wednesday to get a little pre- x-mas skiing in...
have a good one...
-eRic
Parker, How many taps are going to be in those woods? Are you getting the sap from it?
Not much happened this weekend...holiday stuff. Installed the last of the drops and other misc. items. Went through the entire woods and counted taps and made a punchlist...tap count is ~590 and hopefully have the punchlist wrapped up Christmas weekend. I ran my 1" vac. line, but ran about 160' short...need to go out and get a roll of 1.25" to finish it off. Hopefully the 1" will be big enough, but if it's not, it won't take too long to roll out 1.25" if needed.
The woods I had last year is officially off the books, or at least the bulk of it. My neighbor would like me to continue tapping the trees on his property...about 60 of the 380. Unfortunately no vacuum, but all sugars...hopefully I can get 15 gal of syrup out of there.
It's looking like next year's tap count will be 590 on vac. and ~60 on gravity...debating now if I try to stretch another season out of the membranes, or buy another set.
I'm on vacation between Christmas and New Years. Plan is to knock off the punch list, get the vac. setup and the vac. shed built, and get the RO room built.