I have about 600 more to put up and access to about 2000 more if I want them.
So you may have to wait till I am dead.
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I have about 600 more to put up and access to about 2000 more if I want them.
So you may have to wait till I am dead.
I might as well settle for the .90 cents probly be a long wait. Bet that was fun hanging all them. Makes me want to go out and drill a 7/16 and hang a bucket. I bet it was great just drilling and seeing them go up so fast. Will you have the rest of the buckets in before thursday. Theron
After working in Shawnee PA today I came home to put in the first 100 Buckets. 100 to go. That is enough for me. All road side big trees. 1650 in so far, 2000 or bust. I found one of the releasers with the dump flap frozen to the body this afternoon. The releaser was full to the brim. I hate to think of the sap that was not collected today because of the frozen flap. BIG SAP THURS AND FRIDAY!!!!! i hope...
Dave Y glad to hear that you have help hanging buckets. I only did 145 and that was time consuming for one person, 560 in a day, good job.
Theron you can't stand seeing a maple tree without a tap can you? So how many gals is in the belly releaser when it dumps. That has to be something to see and hear!
3rdgen,
Sell the green paint and get some orange paint. It don't cost nearly as much as a comparable green paint and they sell more orange painted compact tractors than everyone else put together for a good reason.
I hope to be completely tapped by Thursday. I am going to finish my tubing tomorrow. and try to do some buckets also.
Nice job Dave- The weather keeps changing but now its too the good. I think your hitting it just right. Your going to be starting your boilathon soon I think. Hope you get your 600 gallons. I bet you might even do more with all the buckets but whatever we get, we did our best, well be proud of it. Thats how I look at it. Dennis- I think it must hold darn near 20 gallons. Thing looks like a fish tank. And when it dumps its right now. One thousand one, one thousand too you have 20 gallons or whatever it is. Its amazing. Theres a six inch outlet thats why its like instantaneous. I like it better than the double. Its simple and really smooth and quick. Pretty cool to watch. Ive got to get some pics for you guys becouse theres a lot of new stuff to see. Heading out back tapping this morning. Got to get the count up. Theron
Going by the 10 day forcast looks like I will tap Wed and Thurs this week. Still looking for final tap count, I think it ended about 600-625. Will count as i tap to verify or while walking lines to look for leaks after tapping. Yesterday I finished my new install bush section and repaired another 150 from last year at same bush. Today I am going to my own bush at the sugarhouse to do final walk/repair. On my 150 repair from yesterday I only had 2 small chews that i found but I had several trees and limbs down on laterals, none on main. Some of the lats were burried so deep in the snow and cructed in it tool lots of time and effort to fix, expecially going from the bottom of the hill across a flat about 150' wide to the mainline where more trees were which is also along the road. That flat is thich underbrush ands has NO maples. Before next year i am going to redesign, put a branch main along the hill and tie it to my wet dry line I put up this season, and eliminate the flat. Don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.
Trying to stay warm. The sap from late last Thursday is froze in the buckets and my guess is that there is a small amount of ice holding the roadside totes down. So we wait and work on other maple stuff like making cream and candy.
Chris
Thurdsay and Friday do look good. I started to get a decent flow and then froze back up here. When it drops down into the teens at night and barely hits 35 during the day, it makes for a poor flow. :( Of course, it'll open up full bore for me when I have the least time to boi. It's all good and we're ready to make some sweet stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Ryther
Dave y when do you plan to do it i may be able to get away one day this week during the day to help you out if you need any help pm me
Well I spent the last 2 days in the north bush, got a good part of my drops in, ran a few last minute lines, set the tanks, I hopefully will finish drops tomorrow after work. Still have to get a few pieces of sheet metal to cover the tanks...
I will finish up the sugarhouse stuff this week, guess I wont get to test boil.. oh well.
I will tap this next weekend and hopefully get a good run right away!. LETS BOIL Massachusetts !!
Stopped by a friend's on my way home from working in my new bush, and he was just finishing tapping. There were a few drips after he drilled each one, so I know things are thawed around here. Can't wait til I'm ready to start tapping. Hopefully in another week or so.
Tim
I finished tapping the 1600 tap bush today. I did not get any more tap as I was pooped. Snow is hard to walk in and not deep enough for snowshoes. I carried my pack basket all day with gear in it and it wore me down. I am going to try to finish up this week evenings after work . jrthe3 thank for the offer, but I don't believe I am take any days off to tap. If something comes up I will pm you.
Worked on taps all weekend. Got another 160 to 200ish in. Didnt have time to count. Worked flashlight to flashlight. Feel pretty sore. There all on high vac so should help on the dump rate. Didnt even run wire. Looks pretty signature though even at that. Ill pretty it up after the sap quits running. Looks like later this week were looking at S@#tastrophe sap Im hoping. Gonna clean the shed this week and do some odds and ends. Wednesday Ill have to take off work and pump the tanks across the road so they dont run over. Pump line froze up so had to leave it there. Next months it for me, I dont usually make syrup in april so itll probly come fast. Sap quits I quit. Not going to do one darn thing till I tap in next year. Gonna take some time off and smell some roses. Hope every one gets lots of sap. I get another freeze up Im going to put in another 100 and thats probly about it. Theron
Theron stop and smell the roses, I'll beleive it when I see it!!:rolleyes:
If you are done adding for now Theron Once it starts to flow into the sugarhouse, That will be what the work was all for! Wishing you luck this week man.
Now I got to goto work, Mondays Suck!
Did a count this morning. Turned out to be 210 taps for the weekend. Think Im going to work in the sugarhouse this week get everything spiffed up and ready. Might be some BIGSAP end of week hopefully. Wanna see some sap run. Gonna boil till nothing runs and then Im totally shutting down rest of year. No house projects, no sugarbushes, nothin. Gonna go fishin and give the woodchucks payback with Booy and Brother and ride my four wheeler around and enjoy life. Theron
PARRRR(so much wood you could single handly deplete the ozone layer in one season)KEEEEEER! WE NEED AN UPDATE DOWN HERE NOW. Your a serious producer and we need to know what the heck is going on. THEEE(so much lateral line you can see it from outer space)ROOOOON
Got my permit today and the gas 5hp honda engine just came from ups for the vac, What a great day :D
TTHHEER(bigbelley)RRROONN- wow, another 12" of snow-glad the tubing is pretty much ready to go,,,have to get Marvins front on, add another layer of brick to the firebox in the arch, run the HIGHVOLTAGE wire to sugarhouse,set up blower,move pumps to woods, set up trucks,clean out tanks,finish plumbing tanks, ect. really,,,a lot of stuff to do,,,but am feeling pretty good about it,,,turns out I have 298 nice buckets,,151 spiles and 155 bucket wires,,talked to George tonight,,said I could use his 600 buckets,,got premission to tap over 300 road trees so far (some VERY BIG) not sure how the bucket thing will work {alot of labor as I remember},gonna ask a fellow about another 200 later this week,I have 2 new 7/16 tapping bits, figure Ill just go as long and as HARRRRRRDD as I can,,if some sap goes on the ground (heaven forbid),so be it,,,,hopefully we wont be lacking for something to do when it starts to run... gonna get a case of AMP with my last pulp check, think Ill need it,,,,,,hope to start in ernest this weekend,,,thats the Update from here
Stayed out in the woods doing drop lines till dark tonight, I'll finish up the north bush tomorrow! and tap it next weekend... I'm close to ready.. just sugarhouse stuff and get the tanks on the trucks.. yes , running 2 sap trucks this year, The wife will run the smaller Dakota with the 210 gal and I will run the GMC with a 500 gal on it. (although I won't fill it-yikes)
picked up a small glass milk releaser on ebay today for 56 bucks.. I bet I can get that to work on the 100+ taps in the back woods next year. something to play with, still have my big electric releaser for sale.
Parker-
Are you gonna tap the ones that are near that farm on the left hand side of the road as you head to Rt 11 bush?
The big suck arrived today. Glad you guys had a few pre-season days to warm up your pumps. Might as well turn them off after tomorrow, you should see a pretty steep decrease in sap once I turn on bertha.
Only one that might benefit from the pump besides myself is GMCooper, mark's close enough and upwind from me that he could get some residual sap from my pump.
Hopefully fixed some if not most of my pre-season "opportunities" and now time to get under way. Had a few doozies.
You guys have already tapped and left me in the dust. Well I'll play a little catch-up soon enough.
2000 should be definate, and 2500 if I'm lucky. So couple of 1/2 way decent runs and I should be in the lead.
Time and Money, and I'm out of both.
Parker,
you couldn't stand to see some of us have so much fun with all them buckets, could you? You got to have buckets! I worked till dark hanging buckets to night. tap count is up to 2565. just a few hundred more to go.
What kind of pump are you running royal? how many taps u putting on it?
sounds like your going to make some seriouse syrup is all your 2000-2500 on one bush ?
so i boiled friday for the first time on the new rig boiled nicely rolled the steam nicely ..sap dancing out of the back pan took 50 gals down to 30 in maybe 3 fires
ok sat i pull all the sap to the front fill back with water
ok fire up cant get her to rip smoke everywhere found holes i never new existed
ok so i figure i choked the opening leading to the stack i fix it yesterday and today i fire water up its worse i tried everything could not fix it i reduced my stack from 10 to 8 i put a flip cap on my stack and a spark arrestor ...
any guesses why i had smoke i know but like to hear you alls thoughts
oh and nate u dont get to say cause u know
Way to much to get done this week. May have to replace a tank that I should have planned to any ways. Weather not looking real good for a while yet so maybe I'll be alright. Broke the binding on snow shoe Sunday. They are 50+ years old. Looking for warranty card!
Matt, I heard that when you start up the vacuum pump in Buxton the Poland Spring Water plant in Hollis has to shut down for lack of water??????
Mark
75CFM LIQUID RING - complements of a dealer I know very well.
that is going to put the big suck on 2000 taps in my main bush down the road.
THe other 500 will be on gravity tubing and buckets and residual taps here and there.
The plan is to be able to have entire mainlines open and still pull 27-28 inches on the taps. Results will follow.
Mark-
I think some people will be happy cause there will be fewer trucks running on Rt. 112 going to get water.
is that the bush that i was looking at on ur youtube that had 450 taps and u added on or a toatly differnt bush ? r u still running the pumps at ur house ?
Went to Father and Sons tonight to view the great sugarbush. Jim, nice job on getting all the laterals up, looks real nice. You will need a piece of paper to stand on to tap a couple of those end trees:)
Thanks for getting the fittings I needed.
Get those tapped for the big run this week.
Regards,
Chris
same bush. I just added alot more to it. Those shots were from several years ago. That first section I call zone #1, then I and Theron added zone 2, and zone 3. Lots of serious taps in there. It all heads down about 2000 feet to the releaser and that's where I have 100amp service installed as well.
you got a serious bush there, you added on alot, is it fully tapped or is there more ???, do you own the land, i hope to own a piece of land with atleast a 1000 taps so if i loose all my other places i can still sugar,.. do you run a electric releaser, i purchased a single bernard and it sticks i was told rice in the float? does it work or any ideas i noticed u have a single.
i seem to add more taps each year you gotta love it
nate
There are more to be had, maybe another 1000 if I looked around hard enough. I've got the "easiest" ones now. At least in relation to where I had lines and concentration. Nothing is perfect but it is alot of taps in one spot which is nice and the landowners are super nice people and could care less about getting anything from me. They are just happy someone is using the land.
I have an electric releaser over there only because that's what I had that was big enough to handle the taps and I have to pump the sap up the hill to the road so the releaser is about 400 feet from the road.
I have never had an ounce of trouble with my single. At least until I shipped it to PA for some luney toon to use this year. Honestly the rice thing was new to me, I agree with the theory. In fact I was thinking of doing the some thing when we were trying to figure out some problems with the float not coming down hard enough. I was there with theron when Richard's main man todd told us about the rice. Makes perfect sense.
After this season I should be able to let everyone know what a couple thousand red maples will do with the big suck on them. There are some pretty serious ones in there.
The guy I do the sugaring with just got a snowmobile, and I think it may come in handy with all this snow. We can pack trails with it.
It is going to be great to get our taps in finally. Now we need a little sugaring weather.
Matt,
So what is the boiling plan for this year, did you get rid of your evap and what is in its place.
Willy went down the road to Dean (Acer). Then came the sprint to find a replacement the 4x12 deal fell through the night before I was going to get it.
So I ended up buying a 3x8 with intensofire arch, preheater and hood. Pretty sweet boiling rig. I cleaned it all up and painted the iron on it. got some stack from Bill Mason this weekend and did a test fire on Sat night. The original plan was to get a small fire under the pans to heat the water up in them to clean everything. Well a few minutes after than and the sugar house was full of steam and I started pounding the wood to her. Pretty amazing stuff it's almost as much fun to look inside the viewing window on the door to watch the fire as it is to watch the bubbles!
Matt- I have premission to tap all the trees on my road and flaghole (heading to rte.11) I have premission to tap the 500 prehistoric (most 3 feet thru) rockies in the pasture to the left down over the hill,,,but I dont know how I would get the sap from the buckets to the road??? I know my skidder would make a real mess,,,I dont have a team of horses,,,dont think a 4 wheel drive tractor would do it,,,,think I would need a snowcat,,,now that gets me thinking,,,I know a fellow with a snocat (bigone) hhhmmmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
PARR( so much sap even the Canadians are getting pissed)KER- You guys with all these buckets are making me sad. Im happy for you guys but sad inside knowing what Im missing. Is there any way you could dump it down there in a tank and then pump it up to the BIGSAP truck with your sap pump? Probly not feasable with so many. I got a 100 out. Were going to put a 100 in. I know that doesnt make me much of a sugarmaker but next year watch out. Im going to be ready on the bucket thing. My main problem is I dont own a pickup. The only thing I have to haul with is my lincoln. It does have airbags in the back so I could probly haul a lot of weight. Next year Im focusing on the buckets. This year Ive just been so busy on all this sapline stuff Ive just really dropped the ball. Hope you get tons of sap. Theron
Theron,
You will probably be just about done sugaring when we start so you can come on up to my place and gather 2,000 buckets. If you can't make it up here while we are sugaring I will wait for you to come wash them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How far up in New York are you? Im at the southern line of New York. Theron
I am near the canadian border, about 2 hours east of watertown, ny. What part of ny are you near?