Bigsap Warning 2010

[tuckermtn]

BIGSAP!!!! BIGSAP!!!!!! Its getting close to season, better get to work. Busy here at Pierce and Sons. Been taking some time off recuping from season. Just finished pulling taps yesterday. . Theron

Glad I'm not the only one- I finished pulling the last of my taps this morning- course I only have 625 taps vs. your 4000...

[Russell Lampron]

I thought that I was a little behind schedule. I still have vinegar and water in my evaporator pans. I had my taps all pulled and tubing washed the first weekend in April. Finally got my Harley out yesterday too.

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

Theron,
Take the sides off your sugar house and jack it up. Build a new one for this beast and use the old one for a cupola

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Dennis- I just cant buddy, Ive got to revamp that whole shed and fix up all my lines. A lot of my stuff was put in on the fast and I really need to get it better. Plus I dont want to wake up and find my kids all grown up either. Ill keep plugging at it. Next year after season itll be the right time and Ill put a big bush in and I will be able to afford it. Your going to have fun too with your new rig. Now your going to have a real evaperator. Ill have to come down and check things out. Theron

Theron,

You are correct there. Before you know it, the kids will be gone and it will be just you and the wife. Enjoy them every day, one of these days you may get burnt out on syrup and won't be any kids around to do things with.

[Sugarmaker]

WOW!


Had to write some more so it would post, but couldn't think of another word to describe BIG"T"!

Chris

[heus]

I thought that I was a little behind schedule. I still have vinegar and water in my evaporator pans. I had my taps all pulled and tubing washed the first weekend in April. Finally got my Harley out yesterday too.

Russ,
I have only had my Electra Glide out twice so far this spring. All of my free time has been spent in the woods or in the shack. What do you ride?

[Russell Lampron]

Hues,

I have a 2006 Electra Glide Ultra Classic. I should be out riding it today but the garden needs to be planted.

[PATheron]

Guys- Working on a little of everything down here in BIGSAP country. Got the taps all pulled, got a bunch of syrup jugged for the neighbors, and working on the shed. Have to totally revamp it to fit my new evaperator in it. Think its going to turn out good though. Im opening the whole thing up inside and will have to move my R.O. machines to a side wall. Should turn out pretty good. Looking foreward to having all that work done then I can get back in the woods where I belong. Want to get my lines totally perfect this year and try to pull some really big numbers. Im thinking I should be pretty close to the 5000 number on my vac and Im helping my neighbor tube up his woods. Were hoping there will be 500 to a 1000 on high vac up there that will come here and he also said he may run a thousand buckets and bring that up. I told him to bring up any amount of sap and Ill buy it. Shouldnt be a big problem with the new rig. I ran the numbers the other night and I think I can R.O for two hours and boil for the next two while its R.Oing and I should have 6000 gallons gone. Thats more like the numbers Im looking for. I want to get one more R.O. down the line and then I think Ill be pretty well set. Next year after season were putting in another 3000 and then well be starting to get somewhere. Slow and steady wins the race and I dont want to expand untill Im getting the absolute max from each tap. Fun to see what everyone is doing for next year on the trader. Theron

[Amber Gold]

When are you going to find the time to tap all those trees? Sounds like you're starting to get serious about it.

Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper, and more efficient to run a single 1200 or 1800 gph RO vs 2 or 3 600's?

[PATheron]

Ill get them tapped. After having the two R.O's Ive found that I like having more than one. Ill always have at least two. When you get the larger R.O's lots of times theres high pressure vessels added but the addition of the high pressure pumps doesnt really match up to the number of vessels. Ill probly add a second vessel to my newer cdl machine and keep the seprotech. I really like that machine for the money. I only have 7 thousand in it an Ill tell you what last year I was dumping out 600 gallons of water an hour with that thing untill the performance started to decline later in the season and the sap got real nasty. Thats big bang for the buck. To do those numbers with my new cdl machine Ill have 20 thousand in that. Thats a pretty big difference. I wish I could buy that three post R.O in the classifieds right now but I dont have the money. You need a lot of R.O becouse they dont always perform like youd like them to especially near the end of the season. Even the big guys lots of times run two units. Wheeler is running two R.Os with several vessels on each one. You start getting into pretty big money territory with that big a unit. Garth quoted me 70,000$ for Im thinking a six vessel unit. Makes that used seprotech look pretty good for right now. Theron