If you go to McMaster Carr they have the ceramic blanket its 24" wide but the same price as the 2" roll. I snap a chalk line and cut with scissors
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If you go to McMaster Carr they have the ceramic blanket its 24" wide but the same price as the 2" roll. I snap a chalk line and cut with scissors
If you need people to test it for you make sure you put up a post
the regional meetings will be Tuesday Feb 2 in Henniker at the Intervale Pancake House
Thursday Feb 4th in Westmoreland Stuart and John's Sugarhouse
Wednesday Feb 10th in Orford at the Mt.Cube...
Let me know if you still need the tools. I go to Nashua every day and would be willing to help . Call me. Three 2 five. 5 nine zero zero
I tapped jan 29 had syrup on Feb 2 have made around 80 gals on 500-600 gravity taps thus far. I am glad I tapped when I did. No big blow out days yet but enough to keep me in the sugar house most...
tapped a week ago today. just about finished tapping this past weekend. had a great run last week sweetened the pans and made 8 gallons to boot. hopefully today we'll be loaded again. no vac but the...
maple rookie, good luck making it into a money maker. write a book on how to do it and you'll probably get richer. I find the liability insurance man gets most and thats not even paying myself...
serve it on his plate for dinner
don't scrap it. that would be a shame. maple projects are supposed to be fun, time consuming and expensive, at least that is what I find. There is always value in some of the pieces. someone...
I have a 2x8, I burn mostly pine (white) and I use 1 cord for 10 gallons of syrup, very consistantly. I don't have a preheater or any of the other things. last year I made over 200 gallons, got to...
The Grinch lived atop a hill (Mt Crumpit) that has hard to get to, sister-in-law thought there were similarities on the drive leading UP to our house. The name stuck.
guys, about chucking the ice, remember it's about the boiling and the fun. even an evaporator that is sweetened will freeze hard on an extended cold spell. some times I throw a little fire in there...
Chris, glad to hear its flowing over your side of the state. I don't have vac and it's been real slow. hopefully we don't get a repeat of last year.
I am in the same dilemma. Leaning towards an RO and watching the posts for the waterguys ROs. I have read a couple of posts about buying a 2x8. I have one and I would not recommend that size to any...
there is a guy in New Boston NH that fixes pans. not sure how far that is from you.
be careful where you tap the tree. if your near a crotch from a branch or a rot hole above the location you could get brown sap. Happened to me last year and never found the tree, tough figuring it...
had some wind damage, another 4 hours work in the orchard. all back together. finally got some power last night so boiling was a bit easier. sap has been rather poor 1.4% and slow coming. Can't use...
Tapped 2/15 - 2/16. collected over 1000 gallons of sap still have 400 to boil from tuesday evening. Should have that taken care of tonight. Made 15 gallons of syrup. sap has poor sugar content....
I haven't had that great of sugar content either. 1.9 was my best so far. All sugars. Last year was the same thing. Made 15 gallons so far
folks, a way to eliminate the use of nails is to use some of the cheap hollow woven nylon cord (the blue and white nylon rope used to hold well pumps) if you compress the rope length wise, slide your...
the sugar content in New Boston has been very low. I have had one load at 2% everything else is below that. I've boiled of over 2500 gals so far. My syrup is getting dark. I think I'm in the B...
how did you make out this weekend? I'm burried in sap. brought in more than the evaporator can handle. Very long days and nights, but this us what we have been waiting for. sugar content is very...
The sap isn't running as well as hoped over here either. Maybe today.
sweetsap, sounds like things are starting to break for you also. In New Boston I got about 550 gallons between Friday and Sat. Boiled it off Sat night and Sunday. Now I need to finish. Thinking...
parker, if you want to save on the ceramic blanket go to McMaster-Carr 24' x 25' roll of 6lb material is 38.50 pn 93315k42. this is the same material used for pan gasket.(mcmaster.com) good luck