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I know it's about 6 hours early, but just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone ! Stay safe on the roads and in the woods!! I hope everyones plans for the season are going great and this "09" season will be salvageable for some that got hit hard by the ice and for those that didn't hope for a banner year!!
Happy New Year from the Maple Trader
Sorry about the colors changing, working on a new color scheme !! it will take a bit but should be a cool change.
Keep it the way it is I like it ITS FESTIVE.
Chris,
Happy New Year to you also.
Yeah it's a pretty cool, different color scheme!!!
It definately gets your attention!!
Happy New Year to the rest of the traders out there!!
Keep safe and watch the windchill in the next few hours.
Dave
I like it. It's bold and things stand out.
Chris, Jim Brown, need any help? Things seem under control for this backyarder.
Happy New year from a snowy Cold blustery NWPA.
Hunted whitetails today and that's all we saw was one white tail waving good bye.
Off to the cold sugar house to can some honey that is heating up. Maple Mustard Maple BBQ and Honey mustard just went out the door for a New Years eve customer.
Still fighting with the new computer. Trying this Mozilla internet browser that Adam recommended. Seems more stable than the Internet explorer browser.
I have to make some more sliding "Loop's" for the tubing system this year as I am going to put loop adjusters at the top and bottom of each short run of tubing to allow additional tightening capabilities. Need to get 50 more of the sliding plastic loop fittings.
Just noticed the spell checking function here very nice and much needed by me too.
Regards,
Chris
Chris I have been using Mozilla for a year and love it !! I also use thunderbird for email.
Jim,
Thanks for the words of encouragement on the Mozilla browser. Just seems everything is changing and I like things to remain the same. Old fashion!.
BTW the green ( and new colors) really jumped out! I thought I had the settings on the new unit messed up.
Gary, In a month you can come up and help sting some lines! Hey looks like your operation is growing!
Chris
Chris,
Glad to see you are still alive. I was beginning to wonder. Mozilla is great I have been using it for a couple of years. Glad to see you are doing a little up grading. Today I spent about 5 hrs in the bush. I have everything under control. I have about 2000ft of mainline to tie and that should about do it. Maybe some odds and ends. then it is on to getting everything at the sugar house ready.
Happy New Year to everyone!
I hope that means you like the colors... I may change it with the seasons... just experimenting LOL
Heading into the woods tomarrow to hopefully finish the bush Im working on across the road. That will be a real good feeling. Lot of work done. Nice trees and look foreward to seeing what they do. Semi trailer coming week after next and then Ill need to run a pump line to that. Next Im going up the road and if I can do it money wise Im going to try to get another nice 300 taps. Have to see how it goes. They are in different little stands and Ill just do one at a time untill ive done all I can do. Not really much to do at the sugar house so Im sitting pretty good as of tomarrow. All bonus now. Whats everyones feeling on how the season may go for weather. Any weather experts on here? Theron
Pretty............
Jim,
Colors are fine! I really do like the spell checker!!!! I was using a Google spell checker prior and it took a lot of time.
Dave Y, Yea I had been away due to computer going down. I forgot how addicting this was.
My upgrades are a tad shy of yours! WOW!
Looks like I could have used another 20-30 gallon of syrup so may be looking for a few more good taps for 2009??
The honey was still to cold to strain and the sugar house was freezing tonight so back on the trader for just a few minutes.
Chris
uggg "pretty".... the death sentence!!
Chris.. the Spell checker is with Mozilla I believe, not here.... it works great, helps me like you read about !!!
going to head into the woods regardless of temp (it was 5 today, i had cut up a punky maple anticipating that i would have to work the cold days to get it all in in time) so i went to the punky wood i had stacked and split in the corner of the woods and started a fire, my hands were ok untill they finally got wet enough that the hand warmers stopped puting out so the fire was nice.
i will do the same tomarrow, aftr fiting with th black wtr pipe main line today im not too anxious to do it again tomarrow ( trust me it was a fight) ive got some older 1/2 blue mainline (older as in 20 yrs old its dark blue) it has strung up just fine on cold days so i think i will takle some of that, In the morning im meating the land owner who im going to pull into his drive way with the tractor to collect with, hes real excited some ones sugaring the woods next to his proporty. hes letting me run a pump line right through his yard to his frive, and letting me hook the vac pump cord to his house for power, and tomarrow hes meeting me at 9 a.m. to help me lift some pole logs and get the rest of the structure up on my tank storage shed at the bottom of the woods,
there a really nice family, says hes gunna come help me boil and has offered to help with what ever else i need him for, but im not going to askfor it, dont want to take advantage of a good thing
The green reminds me of spring....and sap lines running!
Chris, We were without our computer all last week, and I KNEW how bad it was going to be without it! But, got 2 books read, soooo not a total loss. Good to be back online though. If you're liking Firefox, you'll love Google Chrome. Unbelievably fast (I have 11 windows open right now). I swear it's psychic. I sit down, type just "ww" in the address bar and it completes "www.mapletrader.com" without even asking. It KNOWS!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sugarmaker
Clan,
Oh no, your computer has the "Maple Bug" too.
It's been bit!!!!!
Happy New Year!!
Dave
maple trader is set as the home page on my web browser.tehe
Well it has been 2009 here for almost 10 and a half hours so happy new years to all. I was supposed to leave here (Khandahar) a couple days ago but air travel in and out is busy. Should make it home by the 10th though. Once I get there we are having a little late Christmas with the kids then it is all over the northeast picking up equipment. After that into the woods and time to run tubing and build something for the first year. Hope to meet some of you soon and look forward to being back with those wonderful trees.
Ethan
Ethan- What are you going to try to get put together for this year? Your going to be home for this spring season right? Theron
Happy New Year to all Maple Traders and their families from Red Roof Maples.
Ethan get home safe and fast. Thank you for all that you have done for this country.
Chris I have been using Mozilla for 3 or 4 years maybe more. It is much faster and safer than Internet Explorer.
The new colors jumped right out at me. I wasn't sure I was at the right site at first. Kind of John Deereish but nice. I like red homemade tractors myself.
Well, as is usually the case, it seems that the new year arrived in perfectly good order without me staying awake to greet it. I hope all the Maple Traders have a wonderful, Maple New Year. May we all score just enough new taps, and new maple toys, as well as woods time to satiate our addiction! Mt best to all.
Doug
uhg no sugaring for me today, its -6 outside and gues what.....
some one for got to plug the tractor in when he got out of the sugar woods yesterday
(its a 1 man operation so you might gues who it was);)
well im going to go get the husky and bring it inside and let it warm up and go play on the wood pile while i wait for the block heater to warm up the tractor
Gary R. thanks for the offer.we are pressure washing and disinfecting tanks at the moment.Going to Lodi.Ohio on saturday morning to get the big pump and NEW trailer from Doug; he is meeting us half way(Lodi) When I get the new pump here we will be putting the new pump,vacuum pumps and generator on one trailer,(your idea) and then when we go to the main bush we hook on to the trailer and everthing goes at once! Got the new tank and releaser ready to go on the new section you helped to install Ran vac lines over the road last week.
i'll give you a call when we get the pump here may need a hand with the trailer,pump installation.Pump weight is around 550# don't want to have to move it twice!
Thanks
Jim
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL1111 Dano where do i find thisMozilla connection? I couldn't get away with the M D as my home page , the wife is a quilter and does a lot o bloging on here for that
Go to http://www.mozilla.com it is a free download.
Jim
I think changing with the seasons would be a good color change. I have a brother who lives in South Hadley He retired from CoBank in Springfield And is now a finanical consulting guy in Springfield, i asked him to stop by and look at your setup so don't be suprised if you have some company this season
REgards Dick
Happy New Year to everbody.
With the temps so cold out today its nice to spend time catching up on the trader. But with a day off I should be doing something out side.
Keith
Dick, I'll welcome him in for sure! Funny I used to work for the company that owned the cobank building in Agawam. probably where he worked.
Happy New Year to all traders.
Spent the day yesterday putting in saddles. Even with the temp in the teens, 10 inches of snow and 40mph winds I managed to get about 50 done with some mainline tightening and small lateral tweeks here and there. No idea how many taps I have in right now, but with the roadside trees we 'bucket tap' I'm sure I am looking at some long boils . Can't get rid of the buckets there the honey hole of all maple sap and well the lines are already up. Like theron I haven't told my father yet how many taps we will have this year. He retired last year and well, lets just say he'll have plenty to do for a few weeks!
Like Kieth I am sitting here at the computer when I should be in the woods. I hate to miss a sunny day in the woods but my old and sore body doesn't like the cold as much as it used to.
Guys- I know what your saying about it being cold. 3degrees here this morning. Pretty hard to work on the lines in that stuff for sure. I know what we should do, this would be a good day to GO!!! GO!!! GO!!! TAP EVERY TREE YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON!!, NO TIME TO LOSE!!, SEASON JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!, CANT MISS A TREE!! Got the bush across the road pretty much done today. A little finetuning and its there. Few more taps gonna go get. Good feeling though. All gravy from here. More fun work too. Theron
happy new year all. may the price of syrup be the new years resolution. worked in the woods today 5 hours before i got tired of cold. canning syrup tonight to fill orders where it is warm
happy new year fellas. -3 here at the shack today. got some good power run in and set my new blower. lots more to do when it warms up
Happy new year to all Traders. We had -2 this morning at 8, Yea, I didn't get up til 8. Too cold out to be productive so I spent the day inside. Didn't even make more drops because I would have had to drive to the sugarhouse, plow the drive by tractor, tractor would have started but not easily and plowing the 2' new snow (since it started mid morn yesterday and drifts would have been big because this is light weight snow which blows around a lot.) would have been a job. Then i could have loaded the supplies into the truck and driven home to make drops BUT I just lazied all day.
It looks like Theron, maplecrest and I are the only ones that worked in the woods today. after checking beaver traps this morning i went to the woods and tied off 1200 ft of main line.made a few repairs on last years install and came home. Still have 800ft of main line to do. Have to work tomorrow so I wont get to that until sat.
dave i worked in the woods to cutting up some trees that where down on the mainline then it was down to sugar house to clean up and take some pic of the old rig and try to sell it
i worked in the woods, did a little on my tank shed, about 15min worth, got sick of it because the nails stuck to your glove and you couldnt hold the nails in your mouth w/ out them sticking to your lips, so i went onto the nieghbors land and cut some poles down for the carpenter building my sugar house