Bigsap Warning 2010

[802maple]

Where oh Where has the BIGSAP king disappeared to. Did he get swallowed up by all that vacuum or get concentrated with his 2 RO's?

[Sugarmaker]

My guess is that he is tapping trees in the dark as fast as he can. Trying to get ready for the possible run this weekend.

Chris

[farmall h]

I BET HE SPENT ALL HIS $ ON SUGARING SUPPLIES AND HAS NO MONEY FOR INTERNET SERVICE

[heus]

Chris do you think its worth tapping tomorrow? After 2-3 warm days its supposed to get cold again. My test tap has run the past 2 days.

[3rdgen.maple]

I am betting his wife found out how much money he spent and grounded him from the computer.

[Paddymountain]

On Thursday my wife and I traveled to NY up rt 15 past Mansfield. When we looked off to the east from on top the mountains we saw a new wind turbine farm. As a loyal Mapletrader, and knowing that PaTheron lives over there to the east of Mansfield.I could only surmise that he is behind this. With all his expansions, there would definately be a need for more power on the grid to run alll his new vacuum pumps, releasers, fans, motors and such. At the least someone else caught wind(no pun) of his operation, and decided to capitalise
on it themselves!!!!

[Turtlecreek]

I don't think those are wind turbines, I think those are his wind driven vacum pumps, and all of those gas wells are for gas to fire his evaporator.

[PATheron]

BIGSAP!!!! BIGSAP!!!! Sorry Ive been gone guys. Been through the ringer down here. Trying to get everything working and its been much harder than I thought. Im not going to be able to get the 1000 more taps in. Started it and had to abandon the idea. Im having a heck of a time just getting my stuff working good here. At this point I have everything working but everything also needs improving. The woods right now are where Ive got the 3000 at the sugarhouse a little over 20 inches. The Beckel bush is at 15 to 18 inches. Thats one that was way out on a one inch feed line. The Heisey bush, the 1000 across the road is at roughtly 18 inches. The long runs of one inch didnt work out for me. I can get the vac there where its in the 20's but theres not enough poop to it. I do think I could do it if I got the leaks perfect but theres not the time to do it. What I did is run the one inch line from the Booy bush over to the Beckel one so theres two one inch lines and that fixed it over there so its operable. Now Im going to put a deleval 75 on the Booy bush gas. Thats the best I can come up with this year. So right now Ive got the pump running on 4600 taps roughly with everything 15 to 20 inches. I know that doesnt sound that great but it sure seemed to come hard to me. The seprotech ro worked great. We added another membrane to it and it runs continuously at 600 gallons of permeate and hour and 300 gallons of concentrate. So now with that and the cdl running I can get rid of 900 gallons of water an hour untill the sap gets pretty sweet. The nice thing is even with the sepro recircing itll step 2 percent sap right to 8 with one pass on recirc, thats pretty awesome as soon as the sap starts thickining up. I checked the perm like a hawk and can see no passage of sugar while recircing. Ro'd everything to real high concentrate and with the ice in the trailer and the amount of week sap I had all I basically did was sweeten my pans. I think my entire evaperator is basically syrup. Im going to have to take it really easy this next fire up and get it out of there. Boiled the whole thing over first boil, gallons of 20 percent down the drain. Doing our best and trying not to get frustrated. Lot to do and it looks like our weather is coming next week. You guys up north are getting the weather right now. Hope you have a humdinger season. Gonna keep doing our best. Theron

[HudsonHawk]

**** Theron....I'm exhausted just READING that!!!! Good luck and keep you chin up........so you don't swallow any sap!!!

[3rdgen.maple]

On Thursday my wife and I traveled to NY up rt 15 past Mansfield. When we looked off to the east from on top the mountains we saw a new wind turbine farm. As a loyal Mapletrader, and knowing that PaTheron lives over there to the east of Mansfield.I could only surmise that he is behind this. With all his expansions, there would definately be a need for more power on the grid to run alll his new vacuum pumps, releasers, fans, motors and such. At the least someone else caught wind(no pun) of his operation, and decided to capitalise
on it themselves!!!!

When did PaTheron move to NY. Those turbines you seen are on tug hill there are 100's and 100's of them. Just a hop skip and a small jump from my house.