Patrick
Wood fired barrel boiler and squirrel cage forced air
Slowly warping plexi steam hood
shiny selfmade copper pre-heater
Fiddy something taps
10x12 raised platform shack
not enough coffee
picked a bad year to give up ice cream
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Clan,
They will definately sleep tonight!!
What did you get for total?
Dave
2x5 SS home design on a home design arch w/ forced draft
SS Evaporation Enhancement Unit
Home design filter / canner
Daryl Sheets filter press
300 taps (280 on line, 20 buckets)
120 gph Home Design RO
2017 Chevy Silverado w/ 275 gallon tank
8x16 sugarhouse w/ attached woodshed
A wife, family and friends that love to help!!
Funny, it was 60 here yesterday and 40's today and no precip. Amazing what difference a few hundred miles makes. It has been a bad winter here so far as we have had 14 days with measurable snow fall of aprox 1" or more which is as many or more than we have gotten a lot of winters. Appears we are in for a long one if the way it has been the past 6 weeks is any indication. All the snows we have had at least where I live have been 1 to 4 inches, so no deep snow but this week has been a welcome break. We got a ton of rain from Sunday thru Thurs, so if it had been a little colder, we would have snow up to our eyeballs.
Brandon
CDL dealer for All of West Virginia & Virginia
3x10 CDL Deluxe oil fired
Kubota M7040 4x4 Tractor w/ 1153 Loader hauling sap
2,400+ taps on 3/16 CDL natural vacuum on 9 properties
24x56 sugarhouse
CDL 1,000 2 post RO
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Left this Morning at 6:00am to meet up with Cardigan99 at Bascom's to purchase his oil evaporator. Bad driving most of the way but couldn't be stopped. was going to spend the evening with friends in Concord but Wanted to get back with my new toy. roads were better coming back, but still snowed most of the way back. Ever try to get a 1/2 oil drum with what felt like a ton of angle iron out of the back of a Caravan. It sure went in Easier. anyway after much pulling and pushing we got it close to where we want it. Bought some stuff, how can you go to Bascom's and not. I feel the disease taking over. OH NO.
yep... ready but not willing!! Guess I'll be on the roofs doing a bit of shoveling.. hate having lots up there on my few flat roofs.
More now with power so that's good, but still thousands without... Wish them the best!!
Jim & Charlene Desjardins
Belchertown MA.
Had a good 13 year run, but circumstances ! and loss of tree use.. we are ending the Maple thing for now... maybe be back in a few years
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Patrick
Wood fired barrel boiler and squirrel cage forced air
Slowly warping plexi steam hood
shiny selfmade copper pre-heater
Fiddy something taps
10x12 raised platform shack
not enough coffee
picked a bad year to give up ice cream
~~Maple Sugaring~~
Occasional Creek Maple [+] On Facebook [+] On Twitter
~~~~Personal~~~~
Shared pics [+] Best Imitation of Myself [+] On Facebook
Round 3 has started with heavy east winds.
Success is not final,failure is not fatal.It is courage to continue that really counts
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison
Let it snow!!!!my ZR 700 don't mind![]()
Enough snow and everything minds, even my team of Belgian's. And, when I get to the woods, I have to be able to move around. Frankly, there is too much left for me to do before March 1 to be bogged down too much. Still, I am doing something every day. Yesterday was only a few droplines. Today, I will probably try to finish getting the evaporator torn down for it's move to the new sugar house. Snow is just starting. Another foot predicted and high winds with whiteouts. We have 16" on the ground now. Gonna be mostly those Belgian's working for a while.
Doug
Went to the woods yesterday and found the working conditions to be favorable.
The inch or 2 of slush we had on Friday was frozen solid. like walking on concrete.
Finished puling laterals. have enough for 600taps. Have 3 mainlines down the screw anchors are broke I had just finished one when it popped. I guess i must be straining them to much. It is snowing again.not what NE has but it is snowing. I going to put up the main lines to day and some drops the come back and watch the football game.