Originally Posted by
Bucket Head
Not arguing here- just replying because I had a few free minutes and figured I'd log on. Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but he did get it to the masses, the road salt affects more than just the roads (I too wish they would stop using it!) and the Governor of New York just put a ban on plastic bags in this state starting in 2020.
Yes, it's all frustrating.
Steve
Exactly who or what Henry Ford was, makes my point no less salient, but I do love this website for all that it has taught me. So thanks to you and all for making me more knowledgeable.
It is also believed by many that road salt kills maples. My property shows clear and specific effects supporting that claim. That is a thread for another day.
I live by the road. Walk down the road. I see and clean all kinds of garbage that blows onto my property. I never see those plastic bags. People reuse them. I believe poor people should be helped ... but now thanks to a "State Government from New York" poor New Yorkers will have to go buy more hefty garbage bags. Sooo .... the used plastic bags go to landfills with all the other Trillion Trillion pounds of garbage. Most of which is made up in weight by broken down cars.
Meanwhile the roads are neglected .... The cars are destroyed and one destroyed car amounts to about 800,000 of those grocery store plastic bags as far as impact to the environment goes. Dr Tim is welcome to correct the mathematical specifics of my deduction but please use some good hard math if you do so.
Far more certain then maple sap flows in the springtime, kickbacks flow in politics.
I could go on but there is not enough memory on the server to this forum to tell it all.
If you think it's easy to make good money in maple syrup .... then your obviously good at stealing somebody's Maple Syrup.
Favorite Tree: Sugar Maple
Most Hated Animal: Sap Sucker
Most Loved Animal: Devon Rex Cat
Favorite Kingpin: Bruce Bascom
40 Sugar Maple Taps ... 23 in CT and 17 in NY .... 29 on gravity tubing and 11 on 5G buckets ... 2019 Totals 508 gallons of sap, 7 boils, 11.4 gallons of syrup.
1 Girlfriend that gives away all my syrup to her friends.