January Journal

Happy New Year to all and I hope this year brings everyone tsunami sap.

3rd don't you have a life!!!! Some one delete my january journal 3rd beat me by 10 seconds.

Wow 8 minutes into the year and we already have the January journal started. My newyears reselution is expand my #of taps get a bigger evaporator and finish my sugar shack.

I have issues with insomnia. I get it quite often and have some sleepless nights then all of a sudden I hit a wall and you cant keep me awake. Gramps had it and so does my brother. Gator you are just mad I beat you by a minute lol.

I am!!! I was at work thinking I would get home and start the january journal looked forward to it all night.

30 days till operation tap off. Hopefully have all the lines up this weekend. Then its hook up tanks and releasers. Run electric to tank across the road. Make up the new vac pump. A lot of misc hooking things up but itll be a nice break from the lines. Cant wait till Jan 30th. START DRILLIN HOLES BABY!! Wish I could be completely ready a little early Id run some more taps but probly not reallistic. I might better get everything Ive got done a 100% Im hoping I can tap in in 5 days and then Ill still have 4 days that hopefully itll be frozen rock solid so no sap seeps into the lines and Im going to walk every single line looking for every leak I can find. Havent had time to shoot squirrells so theyve probly given me some pretty serious payback. Good thing is with 130 cfm's I ought to be able to hear a squirrell leak from inside the house with the tv turned up. Im going to sectionalize each area and only have the pump on those lines while Im on leak patrol. Need the big suck for those long runs Ive ran this year. Everybody better start getting ready pretty soon itll be time for BIGSAP WARNINGS in their areas from the EMERGENCY BIG SAP SYSTEM. Theron

Happy New Year all you sick traders!!!!!
Is there a doctor in the house??
Yes I think there is and he's as sick as we are!!!!!

PA,
We're all set here ready to go, our go time is anytime after the middle of February.
Added a few more taps this for this year, added the use of a 12 volt pump rather than dump buckets into the gathering tank.
Suck them line tanks right out ............ slick, I hope.
Should save us some time and work.
Got a bit of snow coming down, good day to hole up and take it easy!!

All you folks stay safe out there and enjoy the weekend!!!!

Dvae

up here in northern Ny were still running tube and not even close to being ready, still have to get the vac pumps ready and some more honda gas engines( SINCE I GOTTA RUN GAS AT THIS NEW BUSH)= I thought i could get electric from the neigbors but i guess theres no electric in the old sugarhouse next the bush, O well just run a big gas tank, Run 3-4 days before refill, shoulds pretty good to me, in at 1500 vac taps as of right now and should be at or close to 2000 on vac when done for this season and maybe 100 buckets? probably wont have time to collect= SCHOOL. Plan on tapping Last week in feb first week in march, but who knows all depedns on the weather, usally pretty cold up here in the mnts

hope everyone is doing good,

I usually put taps in early febuary, I live in southeast Pennsylvania it goes from all cold to all warm very quickly. Not to mention I tap alot of silvers. I expanded this year, graduated from kitchen stove to outside cinderblock evap. and went from 6 taps to 45 taps, big year for me!

Had a good day in my new sugar shack, insulated walls and ceiling in the finishing half and started the paneling. Tomorrow I rough in the plumbing. I am getting the itch real bad. Good thing I still have a lot to do.