november journal

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Originally Posted by Amber Gold

Yesterday I spent the day in the woods and got more laterals up finishing up that section of the woods. Today I got up the last mainline. Progress was pretty slow as I was hoping to get all the laterals up on it as well, but it didn't happen...next weekend.

I'm also going to run short on tubing. I bought 13 or 14 rolls when I was estimating 500 taps. Either I'm finding more trees than I estimate or I'm not getting as many taps in per roll...hopefully it's the former.

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The estimate I get is 27-28 taps per roll that would mean you needed 18-19 rolls.

Deer season opened here in Vermont yesterday, my older sister decided she wanted to hunt this year, so I took her to "my spot" and set her up on Saturday. I sat in the secondary spot. About an hour in a young buck made his appearance but did not allow her to tell if he was legal. He ran off. So we went back this morning. At a little after 9:00 I headed back to her spot to call it a morning, she was looking the other way pretty seriously so I stopped and waited. After a few minutes I took a few steps toward her and she jumped. She started giving me crazy hand signals. At first I thought little Jimmy had fallen in a well...lol. She gave me the hand on top of the head...meaning antlers. and then motioned around behind her. So I snuck back around and up. I heard the deer start to run so I ran straight ahead about 10 steps, stopped and listened. I thought he was going to run down through the open maple so I ran ahead to see if I could see him and he ran up the hill right to me.... 8 point 150lbs

Great week. 5000' of wire up. 1700' of 1" up. 1000' of 3/4 up. 1000' of 1-1/14 up. 3 rools of 5/16 up. So much more to do. I have decided that this new section will spare no expense. Main lines 50' apart. 3-5 tapes per lat. Two taps per tree max (many trees are 3'-4' on diameter.) It is not easy keeping ahead of dad. He does the main line wire tying. He ties the main line as fast as I can put up laterals without the drops.

i took a trip to lowes and got my drip edge and rolled roofing for the sugarhouse.monday will be a busy day but i hope to have that stuff on by weeks end..it,s tough to get anything done outside with it getting dark so soon..we,ll see.

delbert

Gary R,
Congratulations on the 8 point, nothing like waiting till the last minute:) I helped Eric and Nic process Eric's deer tonight. Jerky and venison Kielbasi is on the way.
Regards,
Chris

My bow season was alot like my maple season. Been down to camp atleast 3 days every week and 5 days there this past week. Sat in numerous stands all day everyday about 11 hours each. Had a couple whoppers at full draw but none could commit to that last step lol. Logged a grand total of 154 hours in stand for just bow at camp and have no idea how many hours of bow and rifle in the northern teir. Deer have been far and few in between with an average of seeing one deer every 13 hours at camp with the bow. Sad sad sad. Sh!tgun opens saturday and cant wait to spend hours in the woods kicking city slickers off my posted land and listening to people unload their guns on running deer in hopes of just hitting them once. Just part of owning 100 acres surrounded on 3 sides by thousands of acres of state land. I cant remember when the last time I didnt fill a bow tag. Been a long time since that has happened. Thing that is aggrevating is all the pictures of big bucks on the trail cams are all at night. Either they are getting smarter or Im getting a little dumber lol.

I came up short this year also, I spent 8 days in NY(southern tier) bowhunting. I saw 7 bucks from my treestand,and actually hit a small buck
and didn't get it, no blood trail. Saturday starts shotgun season and I'll take the week off and hunt through til at after thanksgiving. Last year I shot a nice 8 pt with bow ,and then topped it off wit a 12 pt on thanksgiving day.
I don't look to do that for a while, It's time to get something in the freezer,then worry about racks!

Good weekend. Got two trees cut off of mainline, converted about 250 taps to stubbies and new t's, set a 4x4 in concrete to use as mainline support coming over a swampy area and put in a new sap ladder. My list is getting shorter but as the list gets shorter you end up with the projects you didnt want to do 4 months ago and still don't!

Brian R- are you putting in more taps of reconfiguring an existing bush?

I think I have all of my wood at the house now. I got a builder to give me all of the cut offs from a house he is building right down the street. I have 4 bins (4'x4'x4') full and i still have some long stuff and plywood to cut to size, I figure I should have 5 bins total when I'm done. That should get me through the season using the half pint! The best part about this is most of it was already small enough to fit in the firebox, so no cutting and splitting, and it is kiln dried.

Now I just need to get out the evaporator and do some work on it and I'll be good to go, until a couple of weeks before the season!

MIke
New addition to existing area. To early for a number estimate. I replaced the main wet conduit with 2000' of while Lapierre and added 1-1/4 dry over it. New year round tank location and power. This will be my high production show piece. I have replaced the slogan "strive for five" with "4 is more (sap)."

ya know it figures. When you go hunting do you see deer NO!!! But your out in the middle of the day working on tubing what to see 3 does and a little 4 point 30 yrds away, they walked right up to me. as was working!!! geez!!! Running out to sit for a few minutes.