October Journal

[super sappy]

Maple Crest and Parker- Come on guys that hike wasnt that bad . I am fat and out of shape and have done that hike dozens of times . -SS

[PATheron]

Question for you guys. Ive got 4000 foot of one inch to my Booy releaser. I hooked the line up to where I am now which is 1500 feet further from that so 5500 total so far. I put a gage on it and put my pump on that line only. 27 inches at the pump how many inches you guys think Ive got at the 5500 foot mark? Theron

[KenWP]

66000 inches maybe. But will settle for 22 inch's.

[KenWP]

Sitting here actually boiling turnips. Trying to get this harvest stuff done so I can do something else but a guy has to eat for the winter. We have had only one frost here so far and the trees look pretty good with all the colours.
Trying for the last while to find a greenlees punch to finish off my evaporator poject but I have tried pawnshops and such and so far not much luck. really hate to rent one becasue I have to use it right away and then take it back and can't work at my lesuire.

[Fred Henderson]

Sitting here actually boiling turnips. Trying to get this harvest stuff done so I can do something else but a guy has to eat for the winter. We have had only one frost here so far and the trees look pretty good with all the colours.
Trying for the last while to find a greenlees punch to finish off my evaporator poject but I have tried pawnshops and such and so far not much luck. really hate to rent one becasue I have to use it right away and then take it back and can't work at my lesuire.

What size punch are you looking for? Now lets have that measurement in inches.

[Bradenfish]

KenWP., you need to learn how to spell colors correctly!

[Rhino]

The re-bricking, and over the fire air system is just about done. I used two pieces of 3" irrigation pipe that I cut at 44" long. drilled fifteen holes in each pipe with a 1/2" bit. These irrigation pipes are mounted about 5 inches from the top of the arch. The 15 "feeder pipes" in each manifold are about 8 inches long and flush with the inside fire brick with a slight 10 degree downward angle. Had to use that long of feeder pipes because I double fire bricked the inside of the fire box. (probably will be able to put my tongue on the side of the arch now but why would i want to?) Now I have to fabricate the behind the fire manifold and feeder holes. I will inject air into the system with a electric leaf blower. I will just cut a slot in the main feed pipe and regulate the air with a piece of metal that can slide up and down. My buddy came the other day and took meaurements to make us a preheater above our piggy-back so hopefully we dont have any cold chambers to start out with. Once I learn how to post pictures I will post some. The state inspector came on Oct. 5th for the preliminary walk through. Don't have to change a thing witch is a good thing. Have to put more line in this fall so I don't have alot of time to make improvements to the syrup shack. Cold start to Oct. Had snow yesterday morning. 23 degrees in Northern WI. this morning. Fall sap might be running????

[HHM-07]

i have just been reading some of the post and thinking !!! how lucky we are that deer season doesn't come in march or april-------------- just a thought

good luck wit your hunting and stay safe Dick

[maplecrest]

foams, that was the warm up.to all the rest of the up and down looking for blown out manifolds.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Theron,

7,000' of 1" mainline for 300 taps, you really need help bad! I could run all my 600+ taps on vacuum that are in 3 different locations if I ran 7,000' of maline and cut threw several different properties. You are really getting bored and need to sell and buy you a couple hundred acres with 50k taps on it so you won't get bored quite so easy!

LOL! I think it great, just couldn't resist, but please tell the real truth of how much stock you own in the pipe company!