Well Its finally time to start the 2023 thread!!!
Wanted to finish a few things in the woods yesterday but my son's Track meet had a delayed start so didn't get into the woods at all yesterday. Our washing machine drain pump went (still under warranty) but they didn;t have the right pump in stock. So had to run to the laundry mat saturday AM. And ended up running to the hardware store this morning, So much for an early start in the woods today. a few more branches down with the wind from the CYCLOGENESIS what ever the hell that is we had Friday night. It was nasty I will say that. -15 about 2:30 am here and the wind was whipping!!! I got up to add more wood to the fire just burning it a little hotter to keep the house toasty.
So finally finished up the new section of mainline and got about 110 taps in this after noon. couple of fixes here and there but all in all that section went pretty smooth. I got back to the sugarhouse about 5:50 turned off all the other valves on the other sections on the way back and started up the vacuum and got about 5" of vacuum. So something aint right. so that will have to wait until tomorrow after noon. I am hoping I can get my woods all tapped in by wednesday. Hit it hard as soon as get home from work. after I check things to see what I missed. guessing I missed a taps is all. hopefully its not a bad valve somewhere out in the woods.
Hope everyone else is getting things done.
Good luck to everyone this season,
Brad