february Journal

[Dave Y]

No doubt buckets will make sap better than gravity. But I had to put up tubing so I wouldn't wear my self out. At my age you have to pace yourself if you want to get to the finish line! I will put out 300 more taps after work today. I hope to be tapped by the 25 or 26th. Parker I have already looked at a 6x16 wood eating monster about 100 miles from home. the only thing that is keeping me from buying it,is a building to put it in. And then if i did have it I would add more taps. there is no end to this crap. Its like if i dont have wood to cut or buckets to empty or sap to boil, or get ready to boil I have nothing to do!

[dano2840]

got the tank up on its blocks today, going to run the line down to the nieboring drive way today, i cleaned the tank and found out i not only have to paint the rust spot but the whole tank, as the old aluminum paint the previous owner put on is starting to chip off, bought some latex based aluminum paint yestarday, uncle said it shouldnt matter a whole lot because sap wont be in it much more than 6 or 7 hours, i really dont know any thing about it, but i dont have a replacement tank i cant just throw over there, so im stuck with this one.

[Dave Y]

DanO,
Instead of painting the tank you could put a sheet of plastic in the tank. when the the season is over throw away the plastic and get a new tank.

[caseyssugarshack93]

Dave Y , u must get pretty tired with all thoes buckets!!! you must have tons of maples in ur area,

[royalmaple]

Does anyone have a drop line maker that they are not using currently? I've got about 1700 more to do and wouldn't mind borrowing one to shorten the burden. Send me a message if you do.

Glad we still have a few months before sugaring season, right?

[NH Maplemaker]

Matt, I have one,But there was just a big lay off were she works !! I don't think she would appreciate me loaning her out to do more work on top of what they just dump on to her!! LOL

Jim L.

[jrthe3]

boiled my first boil today did not get any syrup off but will go to sugar house tomorrow to fire up the finisher had to work out a lot of kinks today but got it running smooth learned a lesson today befor checking to see if the exhaust fan is free make sure it is turned off cause when i trunned it by hand it turned right on tore up my gloves bad good thing a had them on cause it could of been my hand

[royalmaple]

Jim-

Sounds like you have the deluxe model. I'm just looking for the simple bench, desktop mounted one. I wouldn't know what to do if I had one like you got.

Plus shipping might really be expensive.

[NH Maplemaker]

Matt, I find that this deluxe model talks back too !! Got try figure whats wrong with it one of these days.

Jim L.

[3% Solution]

NH Maplemaker,
Did your unit come ready to make drops.
Mine needs a kit to get it to make them!!!

Dave