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Just a few weeks to go and I am all set with my improved gravity system. i am driving my wife crazy with all my preparations....Looks like I'll max out at 104 taps this year with 70 on gravity.
Good luck to everyone with hopefully a better season than the last!
i am gearing up myself too. wood is ready to go, need to get the evap ready and need to get out and hang my gravity lines. may have another place to tap, but if i get it it will be a rush to tear out old tubing and put in new. good luck this season hoping it will be better than last.
We do mostly teaching here at Brooksvale and are scheduling our classes, making sure we have what we need and upping our Open House day a week earlier. Rained out every other year as March gets warm. Now watch everyone freeze on March 5th!
Brooksvale Park Sugar Shack
Tanta Kirsten - a.k.a. The Sugar Mama, Sugar Mistress and the Sugarmaker
20-30 old fashion taps depending on staff available
A zillion trees
Loads of Fun and Learning Going On
yea i am almost done in the woods, basicly just gota put in a half dozen saddles on the mainline when i get them, but still have a bit to do in the sugarhouse, got a new front pan made for the evaporator and tonight finished tig welding the float box i am making to replace the old soldered tempermental one! then have to make a cover for the finishing pan and tig weld in the drawoff fitting when i decide where i want it. then just a little plumbing for the gas and the sugarhouse will be ready to go! want to setup a uv light this year but that may not happen.
Kirsten. I'll make sure to stop by again this season since you are a mile away. Charlie loved the coloring book.
I hung a 200' mainline the other day and I can't wait till I get to cut in my drop lines. Santa bought me a nice 2-handed tool that should speed things up a bit.
70 drop lines already to go.....But first a Nor'easter to deal with...
maybe the snow shoe workshop wasn't a bad idea....
25 inches of snow here in southern CT. my exit line for my long run has less than an inch for collecting due to the snow banks......Holy Snow!! There used to be room for a 55 gallon barrel for collection.
My target date for tapping (weather permitting) is 4 weeks from today.
yea my father was just saying today how he had seen so many pairs of snow shoes at tag sales this past summer, yet didnt think of any need for them! sure looks like we might need the to tap this year! the crowd that was all excited to tap jan 15th this year, so much so that the maple assoc meeting was moved earlier in the month, well they seem to have been put on hold for a bit as it looks like the 15th will still be darn cold this year!
I look forward to the visits. We start teaching the school kids on Feb. 1st so no matter what the weather is we have to be set up and at least tap a few trees. Right now, there are limbs all over the place, ice, snow, a royal mess. Put in an order for a few things we need and I think we'll put out 30 taps/buckets and work with that. Staffing was cut again, I'm teaching, sugaring and doing office work. Fun but exhausting 5 weeks for us. We moved up our public day to March 5 as we keep getting rained out the following weekend. We'll give it a try. See you soon. I enjoyed the syrup, let's trade this year!
This coming Sunday night, it's supposed to be -10 F :o Winter, the way it used to be!