February Journal THE COUNTDOWN!!!

[Father & Son]

Gary,
In the same boat as you, everything was sold when I called.

Jim

[KenWP]

Somebody made a killing on the stuff. Whats the evaporator worth. Might tell you what the other stuff went for.

[red maples]

worked on plumming the vacuum pump and and get all the stuff in the line. showed the wife she said what the hell is that????

finish that up today and ry to get the tanks lowered enough to get the releaser in there. so I don't have to move my main line. but its windy and cold...but I gotta get r done. want to finish everything by Wednesday!!!

[Buffalo Creek Sugar Camp]

I was wondering how many of you northern producers have to tap on snowshoes? We have 32" of new snow on the ground and I have 6500 holes to drill in the next few weeks. No warm up in site either. How well do snowshoes work? Is there any particular brand that may be better then the other? I see some of the maple supply catalogs have them.

[Father & Son]

Got the rest of the wood in the woodshed and repaired some tubing. Pieces and parts are cleaned to put the evaporator back together. Need to rinse a couple of tanks and put some tubing up in a small piece of woods and that should do it for prep work. If time permits I have a man door to put in toward the woodshed but that may wait till the end of the season.

Jim

[red maples]

I was wondering how many of you northern producers have to tap on snowshoes? We have 32" of new snow on the ground and I have 6500 holes to drill in the next few weeks. No warm up in site either. How well do snowshoes work? Is there any particular brand that may be better then the other? I see some of the maple supply catalogs have them.

don't need it here this year going out in regular work boots. what ever snow is left in the woods is frozen solid.

But I got mine in sam's club for $69.00 with a bag and poles. used them twice this year once you get used to them they are easy just take wide turns or you'll fall.

[Dill]

I'm thinking its too windy to do the stack setup this morning.
So moving house wood into the wood shed. That needs to be filled before the season. My wife operates on the "magic woodshed principle". It just needs to magically have wood in there when she needs it. No idea how it happens.
Maybe haul a couple more pickup loads of slabs. Don't know why I've been using the small saw, but the last load yesterday I brought the 372 and just cut all the way through the pile. Dropped loading time to 15 minutes or so.

[jmbinventions]

I had a person dump my buckets of sap and pull out all of my spiles today, I am considering electrifying aluminum buckets at this point. I have had this happen at least three times this year and it's only february! Anybody have a suggestion to deter anymore destructive people, this is just getting ridiculous. Thanks if you have any ideas, I need them.

[Rhino]

Jeremy, Tried a bunch of diff. snowshoes through the past sugaring seasons and the best that I would suggest are the army/marine surplus ones. They are magnesium with cable webbing. very tough in the brush. The other ones I tried never held up.

[3rdgen.maple]

jmb setup a trail camera high in a tree aimed at your buckets. When you get the picture of the person notify the police and show them the picture.
Sounds like you got a tree hugger on your hands.