Rolling the dice in Salisbury, 2007

[Parker]

COME ON BOXCARS-------
Started the repair on Hoit Road,,will be there with Peter today and Tuckermountian tommrow,,Brought the Tractor to Hill and plowed the roads out (snow is DEEP up there),,That tractor does EXCELLANT in the snow!!
Got an SP-22 from NH Maple 48 last night to replace the totaled pump on RTE.11
Really should be concentrating on logging BUT..........I have been thinning out a sugarbush (will be in 20 years if they dont build houses on it) and every time it warms up the trees I have cut start to run a littel,,,AAAGGGHHHHH!!!
Will wait on tapping till at least Fri. or Sat.
Need to get the tractor home and plow out rte.11, Hattans,,putney hill,,load tanks on trucks,,Need to put the tank out at hoit road (never did modify it with the drain like I wanted,,,)

[Parker]

Made serious progress with Peter today,,all the main lines are back up,, alot of the laterals are back up,,should be able to finish tommrow,,Drilled a red maple for an anchor today and it SPEWED sap (south face-no wind 1:30 pm)

[Parker]

Just Too warm not to tap some today,,Peter and Tuckermountian helped on Hoit road,,that is all together (except for a few small details) and tapped out,,went over to Putney Hill and tapped that also,,600 or so down,,1400 or so to go,,seeing it run a littel today got my blood pumping!!!
Tuckermountian dipped the taps on Hoit Road in Maple Vodka,,will see if that makes a diffrance?

[royalmaple]

Parker-

Did you turn your pump on? Curious if the releaser had enough to dump or just wet the lines?

[Parker]

Royal-
One of the "small details" I have to compleate is to set up the tank-pump-releaser at both spots,,there was very littel flow,,nothing comming out of the mainline,(they are set up for vacuum with the loops from the saddels to the connectors with hooks),,would have been more with vac. but I dout enough for the releaser to dump,,,I just have a lot of taps -things to do-and not much help-time,,and I am very impaciant ,,probably tapped early for onnce in my life :]

[royalmaple]

Yeah, I guess that would be a minor project for the system to work properly.

Kinda like the whole thing running full bore and dumping into a 5 gallon bucket, something just wouldn't be right.

:-)

Looks like we got another week here till she warms up.

[Parker]

I stopped at Hoyt road on the way home from work yesterday,,It was running out of the end of the mainline ,,12 ounces a minute,,,maple logs in my landing were running pretty well,,,,,,still a lot to do to get ready!!

[Parker]

Got to Hill around noon,,tapped-fixed stuff till 6pm,,my coldest orcard and it was starting to run even on the north side of some of the larger trees,,will be up there all day tommrow,,,sure is nice having the tractor up there ,,will try to post some pics,,

[Parker]

DRAGGIN it tonight,,STEEP ground up around Hill,,,all tapped out at Quimbys,,need to fix 2 spots in the main line--sure up the tank,,set up the releaser --start vacuum---Brian is comming at 2 to bring the tractor home (plow out Hattans-Rte.11-foultons) should be able to start tappin rte.11 tommrow,,WOW-IM BEAT..................

[Parker]

Must have been REAL BEAT,,did not wake up till 6:30 (wimpy)..........BACK AT IT,,"miles to tap befor I sleep"