While not the best firewood, it burns better than snowballs. My main complaint is that it absorbs water very fast after it is dry. Best to keep that one covered and out of the rain so you are not...
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While not the best firewood, it burns better than snowballs. My main complaint is that it absorbs water very fast after it is dry. Best to keep that one covered and out of the rain so you are not...
I fill with water, add a decent amount of vinegar and let it set for a few days/weeks depending on my schedule and memory. It generally wipes off if I give it enough time.
This. And it's affecting people's lives now.
Yikes, I can't get out until this afternoon to see what I have in store for me. I am really, really low on firewood. On the positive side, I'm already at a record year for production.
I checked this morning, I have a 5 gallon ice chunk off my 175 taps. Better news, I'm already at a record for syrup production for the year.
I promised myself to not get an itchy trigger finger until at least valentines day. I don't care if Merle has made 5 billion barrels so far already . :lol:
I've been doing well actually. Not records or anything, but a consistent 130 gallons off of 170 gravity taps. I pulled 175 yesterday from Wednesdays run.
I'll say this, I feel like mine run...
I've been doing well actually. Not records or anything, but a consistent 130 gallons off of 170 gravity taps. I pulled 175 yesterday from Wednesdays run.
I'll say this, I feel like mine run...
Clarendon?!?! My neighbor! Ha.
rasento-
I usually get 130 gallons off 170 taps on a normal good run. I've gotten more than that on great runs. Those are on gravity tubing.
If I may ask, where abouts between Roc and Buff? ...
I currently run a Badgerland (smoky lake) 2x6 on a corsair arch. I have a relative that is getting out of sugaring and has offered me his Grimm 3x10. Cast doors, 3ft/7ft pans, raised, and made in...
how do folks deal with freezing if the diaphragm pump is located below the tank and it has to pump upwards? doesn't the pump out line freeze solid?
No, they were the caterpillars themselves. See the link below, second picture.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/ipm/Invasive_species/Gypsy-Moth/virus-and-fungus-disease-cause
From my understanding, this late into the growing season it's pretty close to useless to try to control them. Beyond that, you really need to work at the stand-level with a spray like Bt from a crop...
I picked up a press last year. I told myself it was a christmas present to myself after having some extra cash from a side job. Looking back on it, man does it make life easier.
I got the short...
Gravity tubing.
I will know if it's the right decision when I look back at the end of the season. I'm hoping to hit a decent run Tuesday. Then it looks like maybe another run starting...
I plan to tap this weekend and hope to get a solid run early next week.
I have 4 of these in my 16x24 shack, mounted 10 ft from floors. I feel like it is very well lit and they use very little energy. I wanted at least 4 lights so there could be two rows of lights, I...
I started getting the itch looking forward to next weekend, tapping in time for Feb 1. It was supposed to be upper 30s friday, then hit 40 each day Sat and Sunday, with lows never going below...
Dave is right. With mine, which is a full size 12X20 steam pan, I have a good 1.5 quarts left when flow stops through the valve.
Looks good! I think I need to add on the shallow on the bottom to create the double boiler. I just picked up a hand filter press, but will still use my rig for canning. Would be nice to prevent...
I shipped a few glass gallone style jars successfully, then had a run of 2-3 shipments that were damaged. I packaged them all the same except that 3rd one, which was packaged even better with...
bassman- what did you use for the actual cap, a frying pan? You willing to do custom installs? :)
After a few years of hauling with a 500 cc 4 wheeler and/or 1939 john deere B, hauling sap should no longer be my weak point. I picked up a used Kubota L2900, 4wd, loader, 900 hours. I'm pretty...
Well I had a wagner sprayer handy so I used that. I can't comment on a pump sprayer, I assume it will work.
Back brushing did help though. When first sprayed, the finish seemed to sit on top...