November Journal

[red maples]

sorry Nate!! 'tis th e season to be hunting !!!!

Its finally over the pressures off. the dry spell over got 110 lb 4 pointer.

[caseyssugarshack93]

It is the season to be hunting, i been hunting too still got nothing yet maybe next week when it starts to cool down again hope to have one by thanksgiving but who knows

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Originally Posted by Randy Brutkoski

The only way to fix chew marks is to eliminate the problem before you give them rats with bushy tails a chance to do the damage. I have declared my big sugarbush a war zone. I have shot 73 squirells in the last 4 weeks. I shot about 40 of them sitting on the same stump. Hickory nuts every where. I have won many battles, but there is no cease fire in the near future. The date will be recognized when i win the war.

Problem with squirrels it that they travel great distances to find food. Nuts were scarce here this fall and there have been thousands of them killed on the highways because they are moving such great distances. I have heard they can move up to 100 miles in a year, don't know if it is true, but they have been moving a lot here earlier this fall and never saw anything like it. As long as there are hickory in that area, you may kill another 40 or 50 from the same stump.

[Gary R]

Congrats to all you succeful deer hunters. I just got done bow hunting 36 out of a possible 37 days. A mixed season. First year I never saw a legal (4 points on one side) buck from a tree stand . For 4 seasons I have done most of my bowhunting with a longbow. I had yet to shoot at a deer. I figued I needed to get this accomplished. I shot a button buck last Monday. No doe hunting here. Were trying to grow the herd. I now have an expensive piece of wood for sale . I'm going back to training wheels full time. A week from now we bear hunt. A week after that we rifle hunt deer. I don't think I'll ever move to tubing. Too much hunting to do.

I'm ready to tap. 2 1/2 months to go.

[brookledge]

I picked up a 2X5 gas finisher from a fellow trader over the weekend and a plastic tank to be used as a permiate tank. Good day to travel on Sat as it was a total wash out to do anything outside at home.
Keith

[gator330]

Gary, I was talking to a friend in PA last night. He has see over 20 bucks this year. Not one was a legal buck for his area. Antler restriction is working real good??? Were are all the little ones from last year. That montain he is on should be screaming with big two and tree year old deer!!! I don't see twenty buck in five years of hunting. But when I do see one it's legal. Land of presure here in Central New York.

My father was over to give me hell about not having any wood cut. Till he looked in the sugar house and saw it was 3/4 full. So he moved on to another topic, I guess I better get my pre heater project going next.

[ennismaple]

We got more stuff off the "To Do" list this weekend. First and foremost I took my 5-year old son out for his 1st deer hunt. He was so excited he jumped out of bed at 5:45 a.m. when I woke him! The little guy lasted for over 2 hours the first morning and 1.5 hours yesterday. We didn't see anything - but that's to be expected because he talked the entire time! I've planted the seed and before too long I'll have my huntin' buddy for life!

We got the forms stripped off the knee wall, the subdrain with filter sock placed and the knee wall backfilled with clear stone. The materials are there ready to be turned into a building a couple of weeks time. I'll post pictures of the concrete when I get a chance.

We also got what lines are not semi-rigid back into the bush and stretched. We've got so few of them it took only about 5 hours - a big change from the 5 days it used to take! We even found time to stretch some new semi-rigid that replaces the old purple Lamb lines we got rid of. We'll get about 500 taps onto new semi-rigid this winter and the rest we'll replace next season. I'd much rather stretch new tube than old ones!

We filled the last of our syrup for some Christmas basket orders - that's nice to be done with. We also managed to get some trees cleaned up that had fallen and a bunch of other misc work that needed to be done before the ground is white. 4 months from now there should be steam roaring out of the Force 5!!!

[Haynes Forest Products]

Had a friend that spends the time sugering with me for a few weeks out of the year spend the weekend at my cabin. He walked the woods fixing downed lines and cutting dead falls. Moved the 500 tap bulk tank to end of the paved road so we can stay out of the mud. Because the sap ladder worked so well and the elec Gast vane pump worked fine for my 600+ taps on the other section Im going with another elec oiless vane pump. I spent more money and time on keeping the gas Beast going PLUS the smell of spilled gas.

After thinking about the ball check spouts and the sap backwashing my trees after the pump runs out of gas I think this will help slightly.

[red maples]

Man did underestimate how much 5/16 tubing you use for laterals!!! I ran out again used up another 2000 ft today and I still need some more. I am getting 1000 more and thats it

My daughter is 7 goes hunting with me sometimes till she get bored. helped me skin out the one last night then it was bed time for her I finished quatering it up and hung it up in the basement fridge. I showed my son who is 4 the fridge and he was grossed out I told him it was just meat. He said he liked the deer better when it was alive!!! oh man!!! I think I might have a vegetarian on my hands someday ...I guess my daughter will have to be my hunting buddy. I hope he grows out of it!!!

[Haynes Forest Products]

Start out with sausage and when he eats pepperoni pizza with it on it he will come around....slowly