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parker, to answer your question days later. the new woods are running great. just picked up 500 gallons from over nite, got 3500 gallons of sap over nite last nite. it just keeps comming. hoping for a freeze. matt told me that you want him to make you a bubbler. he loves his had a chat on the phone still snow there and 34 degrees. i am 400 gallons from 1/2 per tap. i think i might make it
Parker it is a sad day in maple world when some low life scum steals a hard working mans double releaser. It will probably never be found but I will be on the look out for one that looks like a name was scratched off of the side. Good luck in the hunt.
As Russ says-friday night some scumbag took a saw a cut the lines comming into the Giles Bernard double manual releaser from Rte.11,,,that kinda burns a littel,,,it is 5 years old,,a littel faded in coler and has ROWE scrached in the side,,,keep your eyes out,,,
Ray spent all day taking the single releaser from Hoit road and setting it up at Rte.11 and chaining it down (still pretty vunrabel) and Tuckermnt was nice enough to lend his releaser and Ray put that on Hoit road,,,,,,,Police said they have a report of a viechel parked at the tank at 11:30pm which coralates with how much gas was left in the 5 gallon jug from when they shut the pump down,,I know whos rig it was,,,and they are on the trader,,,,,bring it back today and leave it by the tank and I wont cut your fingers off with my tubing cutter,,,,,
Making some pretty dark stuff,,I would like to try to build a bubbeler,,might have some time in the next day or 2,,,we shut down the pumps yesterday just no more sap comming in 4? days after a freeze,,made 78 gallons since the freeze,,mainley due to vacuum,,buckets and gravity have done nothing for a while,,,Bob called up and said its gonna be perfect sugaring weather for a week straight starting tues. so we are going to get our wood in order clean the tanks and rig and get ready to FILL MORE BARRELS...........RELOAD...........and agine THANK YOU ERIC!!!
Parker,
That pretty much stinks (and other words that I can't us on here)!!!
I would make sure it is a dull pair of tubing cutters!!!!!!
A fellow sugarmaker, now that is LOW!!!
If you find out for sure, let me know the screen name and I for one will NEVER have anything to do with that person on here or any place!!!
Keep me posted if your going to boil Monday,Tuesday or Thursday this week I'd like to come over and see the Mighty Marv in action!!
So let me know!!
Dave
Parker, that's pretty low. Unfortunately there's at least one in every crowd. Even worse when it's someone you know.
Parker
I had some tubing stolen this year, they took the tap out of tree and took a latteral line. kinda strange.
that's to bad about your releaser, hope you get it back.
I agree with Russ. Let me know if I can help in any way Parker. Lou
When i set up vacuum I have been wondering how i might be able to hide it from view. It seems like us honest hard working people keep having to do more and more to keep what we paid hard earned money to get.
I had something similar in my u-pick blueberry operation over the years. I sell on the honor system. First i had a small military ammo can bolted to the table, someone smashed it and emptied it for me. The next year I got a larger ammo box, bolted with sleeves to prevent hack sawing the bolts and both ends padlocked and a bar welded across the wire bails that hold the lid, someone stolt the entire table. Several more attempts failed and I now have homemade cash boxes, anchored to concrete posts in sono tubes and down 4' in the ground with a big flare at the bottom. The cans are made from 1/2" wall stiil pipe, 10" diameter and the top and bottoms are old disc blades. The bottom is welded and the top is padlocked with a guard to prevent sawing or forcing the lock. I believe if someone tries to pull this out of the ground they will at least leave their bumper or tow hitch behind. It would take a good size bulldozer to yank it out. I just hate thieven thugs who often times will do more work to steal something than they would have had to to earn it. My next move will be to train some killer bees to only go after people who try to steal something rather than put money in the cash box.
I shut the pumps off for the first time yesterday,,,just nothing comming,,slight frost here this AM,,will try to pull some sap today,,main project is to get the rest of the slabs sawed up and under the roof befor the rain,,more slight freezes in the forcast but not sure if it will be enough to get em running?? Time will tell...........
Parker That Sucks!!! I was there at 10:00 in the morning and it was there. My JOKE about shutting off your pump (I would never shut a pump off, not even my own) isn’t very funny. If you are wondering, my alibi is strong. My wife went in labor at 8:00 Friday night and she would never let me take the long way through Andover to Concord Hospital.
Saturday at 2:09pm Kessa Jeannotte was born!