October Journal

[KenWP]

I see Hanyes is alive and well.
Another touch of snow tonight again with rain. I put some weight in the back of the truck just in case. I finally got working on my evaporator expansion tonight. Lot of work left to do and since there is only 4 months to get it done in I better get moving. A hour a day for a 500 hour job adds up pretty quick. I can see why people buy ready made evaporators once I start working on one.

[Randy Brutkoski]

Might sound like a dumb question but, is a sugar house tax exempt or will i have to pay taxes on it? It will have a cement slab. thanks

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Tax exempt all depends on your location.

[brookledge]

I got a call today notifying me that my RO I ordered is in. Now all I need to do is finish preparing for it
Keith

[3rdgen.maple]

KenW hunting update for you. Went back to camp wednesday morning for a couple days by myself and the dog. Brought back a doe for the freezer. Been a good bowhunting year so far. Buck and doe in the freezer . Did take the filter/bottler setup I have with me, with some aluminum 3/4 inch angle iron, a peice of stainless, aluminum bucket and a bunch of tools and remade the cover. Nothing any different just cleaner and shinier. Cut the bottom of the bucket bent tabs cut the hole in the top for the bucket to slide in and riveted it together and soldered the seams. Then cut the angle iron and riveted that to the edges to sit over the filter/bottler nice and snug. Looks and works very good I might say. The other one was galvanized and started to see better days.

[KenWP]

My teacher in french class was amazed to find that I had actually ate L'original (moose in english) let alone the fact I shot it first. Then he got really bug eyed when I mentioned Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep. I never had time to mention bears including grizzly an antelope. I do miss being able to hunt but she who must be obeyed has other ideas.

[Dennis H.]

I have been busy running mainline, today is the 1st day off from it all week. It is raining.
I have been only able to get out for an hr or 2 in the evening before getting ready for work. I think about 3 days is all I need to finish the mainlines then I and off to figuring out how many lat's I will have and then ordering saddles and other misc stuff.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Picked up 11 more taps today I had overlooked the past few years and most were nice big sugars with good tops. I increased the tap count about 20% this year and also ran about 1300' of the 1/2" 30p mainline. If we can get some good weather down here next season, it might be off to the races with 625 taps on a 2x8. I have enough wood in the shed(8 cords) for about 125 to 130 gallons or more, depending on the sugar content. Last 2 years it has been 48.42 to 1 and 48.41 to 1, so I hope it is that good again this year.

Sugarhouse is cleaned up and organized and evaporator is about ready to roll also, so now just biding time until Feb 1st. Couple of small projects to finish up between now and then, but I have off every day but 3 from Oct 30th until Nov 22nd and hope to spend all day most of the days about 30' in the air waiting for a big one as I still kick myself most days for missing the big one last year at 7 yards when my bow cam hit the treestand.

[3rdgen.maple]

Sugarhouse is cleaned up and organized and evaporator is about ready to roll also, so now just biding time until Feb 1st. Couple of small projects to finish up between now and then, but I have off every day but 3 from Oct 30th until Nov 22nd and hope to spend all day most of the days about 30' in the air waiting for a big one as I still kick myself most days for missing the big one last year at 7 yards when my bow cam hit the treestand.

Brandon you must work for the state. My brother works for the sherriffs dept. and takes september 27 till december 5 to hunt. He still has something like 650 hours of sick time after all that time off. He has been doing it for as long as I can remember. Been a god season for me so far and I got 3 real dandy bucks on the trail camera. I do believe I am all set and ready for some sap to flow. I might get ahead on next years wood but who knows.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Nope, not fortunate enough to work for the government. I work in the private sector and I have worked more hours this year than ever before since I have been with this company. I was able to take off 4 vacation days and just concentrate on running tubing and working on sugaring stuff.

I managed to get all my wood in and stacked by the middle of May before I got extremely busy at work. I get 3 weeks vacation and 8 personal/sick days, so I take a week for family vacation and most of the rest gets used in November and wife is fine with it send I spend about all the rest of the year with family when not working and helping her with housework other than the days I hunt in Nov and when I am at sugarhouse in spring.

Forunately, no one else in my group of 6 hunts, so that works out great for my love for chasing the big ones with stick and string.