Morningstar Farm 2017

[morningstarfarm]

Well, I guess it's time to kick off the new season...actually I guess the last season never really ended...
we have had a very busy year here..had microbursts come through Plaistow this summer which wiped out one of my sugarbushes..1200 taps gone...GRRR...ok fine, started an new sugarbush on the Farm..worked all summer on it and have 1500 new taps there sorta done..lol..also added 3 new lines to my other bush there...another 1500 taps..have that one pretty much done...
Took a week off and started tapping thursday...have about 750 in so far..now dont freak on me here..it's going to take me several weeks to get all 7000 in and ready to turn on...the sap was running today in about 20% of the trees I tapped...This is the first year I beat the kids to my drill...
I 'll try to keep up with this a bit better than last year..but, it gets pretty wild around here as the season kicks off...

good luck everyone
Chris

[BAP]

Sorry to hear about your loss of the sugar bush. Those micro bursts can be devistating. Glad you had trees available to replace them with.

[NHTREEGUY]

Any update on sap flow? This weather is getting me itchy. Trying to hold out though.

[morningstarfarm]

not much in the way of flow yet....tried to get out to tap this afternoon but the snow on the trunks is like a layer of cement..cant see old hoiles or anything..grrr..oh well, spent the afternoon plumbing in the new pump for my electric releaser and connecting the holding tanks...
turned on the pumps while i was working and pulled about 20 gals of slime..lol..had enough to test the releaser pump onto the ground...hoping tomorrow is kinder..

[morningstarfarm]

hey, while i'm thinking about it...anhyone have a 1550 gal poly tank they want to get rid of? need a second for the new bush.--
thx, chris

[Maple Man 85]

Sorry to hear about your loss of the sugar bush. Those micro bursts can be devistating. Glad you had trees available to replace them with.

What are micro bursts???

[BAP]

They are storms that have winds that are almost like a tornado. They can be quite destructive but are just a hair under what a tornado is and tend to only hit a relatively small area before losing strength.

[BAP]

hey, while i'm thinking about it...anhyone have a 1550 gal poly tank they want to get rid of? need a second for the new bush.--
thx, chris

Morningstar Farm, Maplechaser08 from Alstead has a 1000 gallon tank for sale in the classifieds.

[morningstarfarm]

Thx, but 1000 is too small..

[Dill]

hey, while i'm thinking about it...anhyone have a 1550 gal poly tank they want to get rid of? need a second for the new bush.--
thx, chris

Call the Runnings store over in Claremont. They have a large selection of poly tanks and much cheaper than I have ever seen them around here.