Happy New Year
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Happy New Year
dschultz Dang I thought I would be maybe 30 or 40 on the thread but second.............YIPPY SKIPPY Happy new Year I going to bedZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZ
Heading out to put on drops... hoping to do 600 today. Then a bunch more tomorrow should finish up all new drops for this year. All I have left is the manifolds..... plus this that and the other.
Thad
Happy new year to all and may all your sap be 4%, and plentiful!!! Go forth and make syrup.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
Going out today to run another, branch line, adding hopefully around 150 more taps minimum. Planning my first sap ladder. Have not yet decided which type to do. Thinking I'll run the branch and then get the exact lift needed and then will be asking lots of questions.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
Weather is warm..snow is sticky so going to do some tubing repairs.
Bob- 4 x 12 Small Bros. Lightning w/raised flues-open pans
20 x 40 sugarhouse, all tubing-main line to sugarhouse
1400+- for 2011 & 100% vacuum
Polaris 500 HO w/Tatou 4s Tracks
1 Chocolate Lab from TEXAS
happy new year! i believe the sap is running today =] no snow though, need it back beforee tapping starts. the race is in its almost tapping time!!!
7000 taps on vacuum, just trying to get a little better every year.
We have warm spring like temps with lots of rain. Snow is almost all gone. Eric said it felt like we should be tapping. I am sure the trees might run a little today.
I will be working on the AOF input piping system today. Basicly 2 inch PVC to run from the evaporator to the outside of the sugarhouse.
Happy New Year to all!
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
www.mapleandhoney.com
i spent the first day of the new year working on the sugarhouse.i got all the osb on the walls,put my rollup door tracks up and started working on my head tank.tomorrow,i,ll be finishing that and more.
it,s 51 degrees right now 7:30pm and the snow is melting fast.i wouldn,t be surprized to see bare ground in the morning.
delbert
Happy new year everybody. Less than 2 months left now... got to get finished!!! You know when it starts to closer as the trader picks up more and more everytime I come on there are new posts.
Got All my new drops made, switching out T's but ran out about 50+ short. Ordering them tomorrow. I put together the all my saddles but I don't think I have enough so I'll add on a few more of those to my order. Hopefully thats it, maybe an extra roll of tubing just to have some on hand just in case a tree comes down over the winter. And a few clear seasonal spouts for the gravity tubing. Hopefully that will be all I need.
Tomorrow I'll start to get as saddles done and then start putting in drops. Gonna make a nice drop carrier out of a concrete tube I have left over just gonna put on a strap and cut a circle for the bottom. Once thats done well..... the list goes on. hopefully done in 2 weeks or so.
with all this warm weather I am sure the sap is flowing!!! the maple bug is diggin in ...watching maple videos on you tube!!!!and gettin excited.
Last edited by red maples; 01-01-2011 at 06:39 PM.
may your sap be at 3%
Brad
www.willowcreeksugarhouse.com
585 or so on Vacuum, about 35 on buckets/sap sacs
Atlas Copco GVS 25A Rotary Vane vacuum pump
MES horizontal electric releaser
2x6 ss phaneuf Drop flue, Leader woodsaver blower, homemade hood
300gph H2O RO
husquvarna 562 XP
Its Here!!! 2024 season is here get busy!!!
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