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    Default October Journal

    I know I'm a few hours early for October but it's about time to start the journals again. First day back in the woods for me. Beautiful day, perfect weather. Spent the day walking mainlines picking up old tubing from last years work before the leaves fall. Got 1/2 the bush done. Some downed trees but nowhere near the moose damage we had last year so far. All in all, looking good. I sprung out of bed at 5:30 with a smile on my face and will head to bed with the same smile. I friggin' love sugar season and its in full swing on weekends for me

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    Have 12,000 feet of mainline and wire to install (wire and line is pulled but have to string it up), starting Saturday I'll be living in the woods until its done!
    Maple Man 85
    Anthony & Rebecca Renken
    2017=200 taps
    2018=4000 taps (goal) 3000 taps (actual)
    2019=7000 taps (goal)
    30x45 Sugar House
    4x16 Leader Vortex
    www.northwoodsmaplefarm.com

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    Yesterday I ordered all the fittings I need to build a preheater. hoping to get about 7-8 more gph.
    We'll see ,I will run a test boil before it gets really cold out.
    115 red maples on vacuum
    100 taps on 5/16 gravity
    35 taps on 3/16 gravity
    50 taps on shurflo vacuum
    about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
    neighbor bringing from 45 taps
    30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
    Homemade 125gph Ro
    Lots of Homemade Equipment!

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    Have done nothing maple all summer. I have cleaned the sugar house and am getting ready to install a wood stove though
    FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
    First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
    3,500' of laterals
    1,000' of mainline
    2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
    2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
    2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
    Tapped on February 16, 2014
    2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
    275 gallon holding tank for 2014
    20'x30' Sugarhouse

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    Going to be bricking my new 2x5 arch this weekend.
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    Mountain Maple farm
    2022 NAMSC award winning dark amber syrup
    2023: 320 taps, 70% red maples. Mountain Maple S4 diaphragm pump controller with automated sap transfer and text messaging
    Website:
    https://www.mountainmaplefarm.com
    https://www.facebook.com/MountainMapleFarm/

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    Been working periodically in the sugar woods cleaning up and reopening travel paths. Ran mainline wire in my North facing woods today adding about 500 feet. In my south facing woods I am hoping to get about 500 more feet run this week. Plan to put my mainline up next weekend.

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    Got about 100 miles of wire and pipe ran since mid May, including about 10,000' of 4" fusion,18,000' of 3" fusion, and 25,000' of 3\8" cable. Last week we started running tubing, got in 220 rolls, only 1800 rolls left to go

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris_In_Vermont View Post
    Got about 100 miles of wire and pipe ran since mid May, including about 10,000' of 4" fusion,18,000' of 3" fusion, and 25,000' of 3\8" cable. Last week we started running tubing, got in 220 rolls, only 1800 rolls left to go

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    How many taps you going to have there?
    Sugaring for 45+ years
    New Sugarhouse 14'x32'
    New to Me Algier 2'x8' wood fired evaporator
    2022 added a used RB25 RO Bucket
    250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
    1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
    2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around

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    I believe this is Glen Goodriches new sugar house in Eden Vt. I think they are installing 50,000 taps a year for the next 4 years for the total of 200,000 taps.There is going to be a tubing seminar there in Eden the first sat. in November. They are going to run the sugar house in Cabot too.
    Blaisdell's Maple Farm
    started on a 2x2 pan in 2000 and now
    custom built oil fired 4x12 arch by me
    Thor pans Desinged by Thad Blaisdell
    4600 taps

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    Yep Brian nailed it. I'm Glenn's woods crew foreman for this project. 50,000ish a year for the next 3 years for hopefully around 200,000. That's just estimates from a timber cruise, hard to be exact over 5000 acres but I bet it'll be close.
    Amazing thing about this woods is no trucking. We're going to pump about half of it, and the rest will run straight in. That in itself is huge.
    Sugarhouse is coming along, equipment starting to show up, it's coming together.

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