November Journal

[mapleman3]

Well, I haven't done anything maple lately, been here lurking briefly and see there was a little admin work to do, all is well, getting so many spammers registering for membership it's sickening. all those people who had trouble getting in when I was banning Gmail..well I get about a hundred or more a week and about 3 are for real... so those registering please bear with me, I will get to your registration.

I installed a new oil boiler in the house this weekend, I removed my old one along with my wood boiler, now just on oil in the house... wood in the sugarhouse. the cellar was getting too dirty from years of using wood mostly.
The new boiler heats up so fast and **** it's quiet!
I still have one keg of medium left to jug up. that will be for thanksgiving and Xmas
No improvements this year to the operation, everything went smoothly last season why fix it if it aint broke!

[Dennis H.]

I ran the last of the 3/4" main that I had on hand, I will have to make a run and pick another roll to finish everything up.

I had a few minutes this evening I made up a sign that I am thinking of getting made to hang here at the house, what do you think. Yeah I know it is a Red Maple but tat is what I have, it was actually a leaf I picked up in the woods the other day while running mainline.

I have also been working on cleaning up my new to me canner, a Curtis RU-300 coffee maker, very nice it is just a little dirty and needs a good cleaning.

[KenWP]

90% of the people would never know the difference. I went over to a freinds place and he was showing me trees that could be tapped and I asked about the others and said they are not sugar maples and was amazed to find out they could be tapped also. Far as I can tell the Quebecious will not tap anyother kind of tree.
There is maples in his yard that I need to find out about. They are big trees but they have smaller maple leaves and a whiteish bark sort of like a poplar. Anybody know what they are.
I am slowley getting the new expanded evaporator worked on.She who has to be obeyed thinks I need a welder to cut down my frustration level. Hmmmm sometimes you just have to wait a bit to get where you want to be.

[michelle32]

Got the releaser hooked up to see if it would work. Worked great. Wife and I desided instead of getting 550 gallon holding tank going with 1100. Its only 200 dollars more for double the storage. Vacuum pump up and running got 27 cfms on it with new vac regulater. This week start to run wires for new main lines. Going what to run the tubing till after hunting seasons done.

[Amber Gold]

Keith, is that 27 cfm's or 27 inches (of mercury)? Running 27" w/ no tubing is a lot different than with. During the season you'll probably run less than that.

I spent some time out in the woods over the weekend. I marked out some more trees and it looks like I should get an additional 50+ taps w/out too much of a problem. Almost all of them will be red maples though and it'll require that I extend my mainline another 2-300'.

Does anyone put ladders in series? The top of my hill is pretty flat so I already have 1 sap ladder. To get the remaining trees, I'll probably need to run sap ladders in series. First section up the hill is 800', ladder, 200' of mainline, then the proposed ladder w/ the last 2-300' of mainline.

This last 3 chord of wood is taking forever. I got another chord split/stacked over the weekend, but I still need to split/stack the last chord...then I'll be done...finally.

[red maples]

Originally Posted by 3rdgen.maple

Why dont they just go out and buy a deer hunting game and sit in front of their tv Ken? Baiting ain't hunting in my book. Not legal in NY anyways.

Well gents life was good again today. I rattled in and shot a real nice 8 point this afternoon. Been chasing this one around for about 3 weeks and things finally came together. I really enjoy keying in on a particular deer. Wether I get him or not. I seen this one hanging out with a bigger buck earlier in the year but have not seen that one since. She who must be obeyed says the freezer will hold 4 so I got one to go. Gotta keep her happy

Yeah I gotta a friend of mine does the same thing. puts out a crate of apples and 200 # of cracked corn with molasses. built a 8x8 shack with a heater in it a nice cozy chairs and takes it back in the woods with his loader. drops it down about a weak befroe hunting season and he and his kid both fill their tags every year GEEE wonder how they do it

thats not hunting that's target practice for goodness sake!!! just sit in your living room and put your feed pile there. then you wouldn't even have to outside.

I haven't been out too much some chilly mornings but I like hunting when its a little cooler. this weekend I will get out there. sometimes its hard though nice and cozy warm in bed or out in tree windy and cold.

[red maples]

came in for a quick break.

Finished another 400' I started last week.

1 more 250 ft section to put in.

started on leterals got 8 or 9 laid out, gotta get some more tubing. gonna start to put on T's and saddles.

[maplemat1]

Ithink nov. is the month to tube . just picked up 5500 ft of main line for the new woods. drops have been done since june. gunna set elevations tomorrow the get started with the wire .woods is 2000 tapes so ive got about 2 weeks work. thank god we are slowwing down at work. then to the sugarhouse to set new 3x10 max evaporater and r.o. tty

[michelle32]

Hi Josh you are crrect it is inches. Had a brain cramp. As far as your sap ladders in series that is a yes you can.Russ stoped by and helped on lay out. said sap ladders in series would work. Not sure if you remember the slope away from the sap house here. But in order to get it there its going to take about 5 or 6 8 footers if we tap the whole back forty. Looking like maybe a pump here may work better than sap ladders.

[wally]

helped my dad get his old 9-N started. it hadn't run in at least 3 years. the distributor needed new bushings. i punched out the old ones, tapped in the new bushings, and installed it. darn thing fired up after a few turns, and on old gas, to boot.

pretty soon it was idling nicely. now getting the 2011 sapwood should be easier. my boys helped finish loading the sugarhouse with 2010's wood yesterday.

also scoped out the lines, and discovered that i have some saw work to do. several large trees feel on the mains in various places. at least it's a start to 2011's wood supply.

wally