I noticed today while I was replacing drop lines with new drop lines with the cv adapters that the cv adapter holes are the only ones still running.The holes from the buckets have dried up(even though we still get freezing temps at night),and the regular 7/16" plastic spile holes have also dried up.Looking forward to warmer weather now,enogh of having to heat the house.
Bruce
Finished pulling lines yesterday. The wicked wind we had Sunday resulted in branches breaking T's on 2 laterals.
Started hauling wood today. Stuff I cut in January and stacked throughout the bush is halfways dried out.
At 7:50 tonight I just started the Argo to come home and the dog barked, looked to where she ran and watched 6 turkeys take their time strolling through the bush. They were about 65 yards out from the shanty and it was just dark enough I couldn't see any Toms. Turkey season starts the 25th.
2239 total taps. 443 gravity line, 1806 buckets
3x12 remake of a Small Bros. Lightning evaporator.
3x9 Darveau raised flue pan, 3x3 D&G reversible finishing pan.
Reist arch
94 Argo 8x8 Magnum
06 Argo 8x8 Avenger with a 100 US gal. poly tank in the back.
30 - 45 Imperial gallon gathering station barrels
1200 Imperial gallons in holding tanks
Husqvarna 61
Husqvarna 365
Last year I was still (sigh) pulling taps 6 weeks after the season was over and the taps on the check valves were still running. I don't need any more convincing that that. They will run until it goes buddy.
We were pulling the last of our taps on Friday with the vacuum on and the sap was still running fairly well on the CV spouts. It was vile smelling sap and there's no way I'd have run it through our RO or boiled it and I'm sure it was buddy - but running nonetheless.
We got the last of our tanks and tubing washed up and put away on the weekend. Now all that's left is to sell a bunch of syrup and wash the evaporator up in about 6 weeks. We'll know it's time to clean The Beast when the smell takes your breath away as soon as you walk into the sugar camp!
I do love sugar making but I really don't care if I see the inside of the camp for at least a month! Now where did I put those golf clubs....?
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
10" CDL Wesfab Filter Press
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Don't forget next years firewood!
I've got more wood cut than I burned this year. Replaced most of the outside piles of 18" wood and I still have 2/3 of the wood shed to fill with 3' wood. I planned on cutting a lot of wood this spring as well. There's so much dead wood in the bush, I can't keep up.
And the friggin rain is going to put me way behind. Worked till early this afternoon till I started getting wet. This week looks like a wash out and I always try to be done by the 1st of May, so I can work in the garden full time till December. Not this year. It's so friggin wet and cold I don't know when market gardening season is going to happen.
2239 total taps. 443 gravity line, 1806 buckets
3x12 remake of a Small Bros. Lightning evaporator.
3x9 Darveau raised flue pan, 3x3 D&G reversible finishing pan.
Reist arch
94 Argo 8x8 Magnum
06 Argo 8x8 Avenger with a 100 US gal. poly tank in the back.
30 - 45 Imperial gallon gathering station barrels
1200 Imperial gallons in holding tanks
Husqvarna 61
Husqvarna 365
a little late but I finally got the door and window installed on the shack over the weekend.
Really warmed up in the afternoon with the sun on Saturday and Sunday... suddenly cold beverages on the deck with visiting family took priority over anything else getting done.
Times like this I really wish my shack wasn't 100 feet behind the house.. so I didn't have to look at the mess of wood, bark and sap tanks sitting around waiting for my attention.
Had to sneak a peek at how things are going on the other side of the lakes.
Misery loves company. Got 80 cord of wood on the landing. Mud is confounding the process of making the big ones into little ones though.
Our beef cattle aren't relishing this steady diet of hock deep quagmire in the least. Nobody can make even a feeble attempt at getting on the fields with tillage equipment.
I was really feeling sorry for myself until my cousin from Sask e-mailed some air photos of the water standing in the prairies around Estevan. Looks like rice will be the way to go for those guys.
Is this it-?? tsunamis, epic tornadoes and flooding, civil upheaval world wide.
Ces't la vie. I'm going for a bike ride
well with what seems like forever since the season ended now...it was time to go and drop some tree's for next years firewood also (Maple for the house and ash for the evaporator). I landed up dropped on of the many big old mature maples on the property that had deffinatly seen better days (Probably was in its prime 50 years ago). It was 28" in diameter, had bark missing in a few places and couldn't get even 2 feet of clear lumber out of it...so fire wood it was. This season it was lacking in the sap department so I figured the time had come. Fired up the chain saw and started cutting. I was amazed that my pants where being drenched in sap and once the tree was laying on the ground the stump was totally soaked and there where what seemed like little gushers of sap comming out of the stump. I was also amazed that this was not only happening in the sap outer sap wood area of the stump but also into the heart of the tree where I was under the impression the tree was dead??? Anyone know how long the sap actually moves up and down the tree after the syrup season is officially over? The buds are just starting to come out (Main reason for dropping this tree now).
RyanB
An article was just recently published in Farming Magazine about this exact topic - root pressure. You can read the article here - http://www.farmingmagazine.com/article-6784.aspxOriginally Posted by RyanB
- Bryan
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