february Journal

[mapleman3]

Stayed out in the woods doing drop lines till dark tonight, I'll finish up the north bush tomorrow! and tap it next weekend... I'm close to ready.. just sugarhouse stuff and get the tanks on the trucks.. yes , running 2 sap trucks this year, The wife will run the smaller Dakota with the 210 gal and I will run the GMC with a 500 gal on it. (although I won't fill it-yikes)

picked up a small glass milk releaser on ebay today for 56 bucks.. I bet I can get that to work on the 100+ taps in the back woods next year. something to play with, still have my big electric releaser for sale.

[royalmaple]

Parker-

Are you gonna tap the ones that are near that farm on the left hand side of the road as you head to Rt 11 bush?

The big suck arrived today. Glad you guys had a few pre-season days to warm up your pumps. Might as well turn them off after tomorrow, you should see a pretty steep decrease in sap once I turn on bertha.

Only one that might benefit from the pump besides myself is GMCooper, mark's close enough and upwind from me that he could get some residual sap from my pump.

Hopefully fixed some if not most of my pre-season "opportunities" and now time to get under way. Had a few doozies.

You guys have already tapped and left me in the dust. Well I'll play a little catch-up soon enough.

2000 should be definate, and 2500 if I'm lucky. So couple of 1/2 way decent runs and I should be in the lead.

Time and Money, and I'm out of both.

[Dave Y]

Parker,
you couldn't stand to see some of us have so much fun with all them buckets, could you? You got to have buckets! I worked till dark hanging buckets to night. tap count is up to 2565. just a few hundred more to go.

[caseyssugarshack93]

What kind of pump are you running royal? how many taps u putting on it?

sounds like your going to make some seriouse syrup is all your 2000-2500 on one bush ?

[peacemaker]

so i boiled friday for the first time on the new rig boiled nicely rolled the steam nicely ..sap dancing out of the back pan took 50 gals down to 30 in maybe 3 fires

ok sat i pull all the sap to the front fill back with water
ok fire up cant get her to rip smoke everywhere found holes i never new existed
ok so i figure i choked the opening leading to the stack i fix it yesterday and today i fire water up its worse i tried everything could not fix it i reduced my stack from 10 to 8 i put a flip cap on my stack and a spark arrestor ...


any guesses why i had smoke i know but like to hear you alls thoughts
oh and nate u dont get to say cause u know

[gmcooper]

Way to much to get done this week. May have to replace a tank that I should have planned to any ways. Weather not looking real good for a while yet so maybe I'll be alright. Broke the binding on snow shoe Sunday. They are 50+ years old. Looking for warranty card!


Matt, I heard that when you start up the vacuum pump in Buxton the Poland Spring Water plant in Hollis has to shut down for lack of water??????

Mark

[royalmaple]

75CFM LIQUID RING - complements of a dealer I know very well.

that is going to put the big suck on 2000 taps in my main bush down the road.

THe other 500 will be on gravity tubing and buckets and residual taps here and there.

The plan is to be able to have entire mainlines open and still pull 27-28 inches on the taps. Results will follow.

Mark-

I think some people will be happy cause there will be fewer trucks running on Rt. 112 going to get water.

[caseyssugarshack93]

is that the bush that i was looking at on ur youtube that had 450 taps and u added on or a toatly differnt bush ? r u still running the pumps at ur house ?

[Sugarmaker]

Went to Father and Sons tonight to view the great sugarbush. Jim, nice job on getting all the laterals up, looks real nice. You will need a piece of paper to stand on to tap a couple of those end trees

Thanks for getting the fittings I needed.

Get those tapped for the big run this week.
Regards,
Chris

[royalmaple]

same bush. I just added alot more to it. Those shots were from several years ago. That first section I call zone #1, then I and Theron added zone 2, and zone 3. Lots of serious taps in there. It all heads down about 2000 feet to the releaser and that's where I have 100amp service installed as well.