LOL Thats GREATTT gotta love it!!!!
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LOL Thats GREATTT gotta love it!!!!
Theron- his bark is bigger then his bite. He is a tough guy to keep up with that is for sure. He probably didn't know what to do with that mountain air with all that sea salt in his viens. Sounds like you are on your way.
another day locked out of the bush 30 mph winds temp +3 and falling. hopefully monday or tuesday
RICH
Wow Rich lets talk about global warming. I got the roof on the sugarshack yesterday and will move the sand in next weekend place the cement slabs and have the floor completed. Then I can set the evaperator ,level and start rebricking it. Yaaa!!!!!!!!! It was a good day to go to the antique tractor club meeting and a 4-H meeting tonite. Keep warm looks like at least 2 more weeks to tapping.
YES FIRE TECH
thats what i figure around feb 24
RICH
Gotta Love the 'global warming' on a day like this up here near the lake:)
Gary R, his cousin and I froze our bejibbers off in the sugarhouse today. I thought I was going to have to fill the rig with water and fire it up just to take the chill off!
Tapping next Sat and Sunday unless the weather man is wrong.
BTW all the tubing is staying up this year. Even some trees falling on the lines have not pulled any connections apart. The tensioning system worked great on the tubing.
Chris
Chris- I looked at the loop/tensioning system in the photos...looks slick..are you planning on capping the end that is hooked onto the "loop"? Like the ability to take down each year, as we have a few tote set-ups that have come down each year...
thanks for getting me thinking..
Tuckermtn,
The end with the hook is a dead end line coming from a green CDL one way tee. So that line with the hook will not have sap in it. The CDL hook is heavy duty. It is meant to take a drop into it, but I am not using it that way. Seems to be working so far. I did some quick adjusting in 3 sets yesterday and snugged the lines to remove potential sags in about 10 seconds.
I have also developed a tensioning system so the line from the last tree to the gathering container ( 39 gallon) stays tight.
Couple more years and I should have this tubing stuff figured out.
Chris
Chris
What is the longest span that you have between trees with this system?
Andyp
AndyP,
My guess is 40 feet max. I have never put a tape to it. I did have one spot that was 75 feet last year and I could not get the tubing tight with out a sag. I just did not have enough drop in that distance. So I just passed the 75 distance tree by this year.
Chris