Senior Project!!!

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Hello,
My name is Mike and I am trying to help My Sister In-Law out with her Senior Project... I am a bit Overwhelmed right now... She Is doing her Senior project on Maple Sugaring... It is a number of different projects if you ask me...
Step one restore the Sugar Shack 1500 to 1800 feet out in the maple orchard... See Thread http://mapletrader.com/community/showthread.php?t=12991 Now I told her I would match her $ for $ on this project and she told me she had $600 so that gave us $1200 total, not bad for a 17 year old high school student who has had to work for everything she owns...
Step Two Install or Restore 250 taps on a gravity system... We found 3/4" and 1" Mainline burried in the dirt in the orchard, so we have dug it up, flushed it, drained it, bleeched it, rinsed it, repaired what was repairable, and reinstalled enough to have 122 taps, so she only has 128 to go to hit the 250 mark, but we are out of supplies... After doing some research we found that the people who used to tap the orchard had over 800 taps, wow thats alot...
Step Three she actually has to produce Maple Syrup... That would mean she needs something to boil the sap with and that will keep up with her 250 taps...
So this is where We would like to THANK a # of members here on Mapletrader... I am sorry if We miss anybody...

stoweski @ http://www.beesofthewoods.com/ for donating North American Maple Producers Manual

DaveLaurie0824 for giving us a deal on a 2x4 Small Brothers Lightning Evaporator, Hood, Stack, Buckets, Fire Brick, and other Evap related equipment... (They can share the details of the deal if they would like to, needless to say we are out of funds now... But it was worth every penny..)

NH Maplemaker @ http://www.mapleandhoney.com/ for donating health spouts w/drops

tuckermtn @ http://www.tuckermtn.com/ for donating two 300 gal galv. stock tanks

Jim Schumacher @ http://smokylakemaple.com/ for donating

Paul @ http://stainlesssteelcreations.net/ for donating a Preheater

Richard @ http://osbornesmarine.com/ for being a great friend, and Mentor

Pete @ http://www.raggedmountainresort.com/ for picking up donations and dropping them off on his way to sunapee

Nijmeh @ http://maverickhousewares.com/ for donating a CT-03 Oil/Candy/Fryer Thermometer

No Name, Unknown, or Whom Ever for donating 200 Leader Plastic 5/16" Barbed Tees, 100 Leader 7/16" Stubby Spouts, 100 Leader Check Valve Spout Adapts, 100 Leader End Line Rings

Andy Wegner @ http://www.wegnermetalworks.com/ for donating 8" Hydrometer Cup

sugarmountain for donating a syrup scoop

Kim Munson @ http://www.stainlesspails.com/categories.asp for donating 3 sixteen quart stainless steel pails

Dave Fallon @ www.amtecgrips.com for donating 3/4" tension grips

Rob Bauer @ http://dawnindustries.com/ for donating tubing cutters

Matt and Jessica Williams @ WH Supply (802) 868-0941 for donating

John Hagan @ www.wilburcurtis.com for donating a Stainless Steel Filtering Rig actualy it is an iced tea dispenser

Colin Christie @ http://www.sugaringequipment.elapier..._en.asp?no=101 for donating

Richard Jackson @ http://www.voorheesrubber.com/ for donating Rubber Candy Molds and a Book

Lisa Hardwick @ http://www.omnifilter.com/ for donating a OB5 Filter Housing and a RS14 Filter

Lloyd L. Munsee @ http://www.bigtreemaple.com/ for donating a roll of 5/16" tubing, Cone Filter, Pre Filter

Dianna Jablonski @ Virginia Vermiculite LLC for donating a bag of expanded grade 3 or grade 4 vermiculite

Mike @ http://www.stolororganics.com for donating 8oz organic sunflower oil to use as a defoamer

We would also like to thank everyone else for there advice and offers to help out with time and labor and experience, as soonas we can come up with a work day we will let any and all know when... I can tell you it will be most Sundays, depending on the weather!!!

Also would like to know if anyone knows where we can get some donations or extreme discounts on rough cut lumber, and maple sugaring equipment and supplies... We have wrote letters to a number of local lumber companies, and have had one say they would donate some lumber to my Sister In-laws Senior Project... We have also wrote letters to a number of Maple Sugaring Equipment Suppliers and have had NO luck at all...

We would also like to thank the members of Mapletrader, as this is like having one big family!!!