Couldn't believe my eyes tonight...got out to the better running trees on my buckets..all of them were overturned and empty..surrounded by of all things deer tracks...methinks bambi has a death wish...
Furry little !@$##@ds
Couldn't believe my eyes tonight...got out to the better running trees on my buckets..all of them were overturned and empty..surrounded by of all things deer tracks...methinks bambi has a death wish...
Chris Hicks
The Sugar House at Morningstar Farm
24x50 sugar House
New 4x12 reverse fired leader arch and steam away
new h2o innovations 1000 gph r.o.
it's time to get back in the woods!
www.sappyguys.com
603-479-0804
That's all you need, a herd of deer all hopped up on sugar water
Noel Good
1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
2016: 85 taps 19 gallons
2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
2019: 210 taps 73.5 gallons
2023: 210 taps 89.75 gallons
www.wnybass.com
right now I'm just hoping they taste better as sap fed venison lol
Chris Hicks
The Sugar House at Morningstar Farm
24x50 sugar House
New 4x12 reverse fired leader arch and steam away
new h2o innovations 1000 gph r.o.
it's time to get back in the woods!
www.sappyguys.com
603-479-0804
Deer have fur? I have picture of deer drinking out of my buckets. The big problem I have this year is I have dumped around a dozen buckets with mice floating in them. I just wish the deer would drink that sap instead of the good stuff.
2X6 deluxe Phanuef
Adding 200 more every year
27 years left of building a Hobby into a retirement time burner.
So far all I got is one red squirrel that perches on a bucket lid and eats pine cones. The buckets are joint compound type so he can't do too much, but make a mess on the lid.
Last summer in a barn with no human foods, or pet foods we had a lot of mice, so I made a bucket trap, a kind of sea saw with a bucket and a little water. That thing was catching mice with no bait!
Mac_Muz great trap they will keep coming all day long. Sprinkle a little Lye in the bottom so they can run around and coat them selves and put a bit of cheese at the end. YEEHA
Well the bucket trap was baited once time, and with peanutbutter, that kinda' went to mold. I cleaned that off, and the trap still worked baitless. I sure don't know why.
All it is, is a joint compound bucket, a stick like a ruler wired to the rim, so it returns after being tipped into the bucket, so it re-sets itself.
6 inches of water seems to work fine, since mice don't appear to be good swimmers, or maybe they can't tread water for hours. I don't know and I don't feel bad about it either.
I take them out dead, and put them one or another wood pile and they are gone later that same day. So they are not wasted, since something is eatting them.
(OT, I am having a much better sap season for the first time at this location, and being the 3rd year and time. I like that! 35 bucket little hobby guy)
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