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LOL its just a few miles down the road, We got about half that amount. After the snow settled the depth dropped quite a bit, then we got 2 days of rain and lost half of it at least.

Spent part of the day washing and rinsing syrup barrels,went to buddies and help him with his steam hood we repaired, plowed out the sugarhouse again. Getting closer till the season starts, hoping for a cold month and a good base of snow before it starts.

Oh you will love this video. A member on SBI shared it with us. Around the 13 minute mark it shows and talks about the sugar on snow party, pickles and all.

Firstlight is your vehicle maintaining coolant levels or you needing to top it off once in a while? You could also have a head gasket leak letting coolant into #8 cylinder. This would cause skipping and misfires in that cylinder and dependant on size of leak even a complete non detenation. Whats the plug itself look like?

Thats pretty typical for sugar content tapping in this early. Takes a lot more wood and time to process. Wont be till mid February before I start drilling. Sugar content should be much better then.

Thing is you wont get a new motor for a few grand, your gonna get a reconditioned motor with everything that he says yours needs, but I would expect a warranty of sorts would also come with the reconditioned motor. I wouldnt give up just yet on your motor.

Heres is a quick picture of the evaporators in my boiling room of the sugar house. Not the greatest picture. On the left is the little 2x6 and on the right is the 3x12. When both are running I have the capability of 190 gph boiling rates. Both rigs have gasification arches under the pans. The 2x6 I bought new and the 3x12 is one of the first evaporators I built. I will be adding a custom built Steam Pig to the 3x12 in the near future when I get caught up on other orders first. I think Im going to top out at 2500 taps on high vac for this year. Was hoping to get 3000 on line but just running out of time. I will say that sales are very good now that we people are more health conscious about natural and organic farm food. Last year was a great year for syrup production. Sugar content was low but sap quantity made up for it. Im skipping out on this early run, not ready and usually sugar content is rather low this early on. However it should be a good season for better sugar content than last. Nice hot sunny summer usually means good sugar following spring. Here is a quick youtube video of the 3x12 spitting out some steam on one of the first boils last year.

Couple things I like to note, for you guys tapping with buckets dont cut your season short by tapping in this early. You will make some syrup in this warmup this week but you will lose sap production when it gets good. Buckets and even gravity setups will stop producing sap if they are tapped in too long. Bacteria will build up in the tap hole and your season will be done before it gets good. Think of it like cutting yourself, after a while your going to stop bleeding as the cut starts to heal. Vacuum setups are a whole different ballgame. I have gone 13 weeks of pulling sap by tapping early in the past. 6 weeks is about all your good for with buckets.

Busy Busy in the metal shop finishing up new evaporator builds for customers. Here is a sample of a 2.5x10 raised flue evaporator that we built for a customer. Made more 1500 gallon and larger tanks than I care to recall this year as well. Still have 2 more smaller 2x6 drop flue evaporators to finish yet. Good times.

Lmfao yeah that analogy doesnt just apply to the Xerox managers but some of the brainwashed techs too. Cant tell ya how many times a tech just had to upgrade software and how many times I had to follow up with reverting to a software that actually worked flawlessly, unlike the new version that has bugs and non compatible patches. I can relate lol

Didnt say I agreed or not, was just funny you said seeing a deer is an accomplishment then asking for more doe permits in one sentence. I mean most people would think not giving out doe permits would increase some population. Just funny post is all.

So just seeing a deer, any deer is an accomplishment in northern tier and you want more dmps there LMFAO.

I was listening to talk radio and this lady called in from NYC and she explained the mindset of NYC vs the rest of the state. She said people in the city believe they are entitled to happiness and cant grasp reality when something doesnt go there way. She continued on to say the rest of the state believes they are entitled to the pursuit of happiness and when they dont get there way they keep pursuing happiness instead of whining and demanding it.

Okay okay here is a big bahumbug lol. What I find really ironic about this holiday is the origination of Christmas and what people have turned it into. Its a much better day and age to celebrate it than it was say somewhere in the 1400's when the Roman Pagans called it Saturnalia. A brief history lesson, oh and Merry Christmas. http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm

Getting ready for maple syrup....... Adding more tubing to get more taps, replacing drop lines and taps, clearing dead fall off tubing, setting woods tanks, hooking up the vac systems, cleaning equipment and tapping. Its a year long process that gets sidelined during big game season. Long process.

You are an illegal immigrant aren't you? It is the only thing that explains your deep stupidity.

Just go away already or get over yourself and move on. Your crying all the time over the President Elect is a hopeless and worthless.

Well if your hunting the timber companies land you must know them, call them and ask.

The variables to your question are so vast it would be impossible to answer this question with 100% certainty. DEC, doe permit numbers, local farmers, milder winters, less hunters, food plots, mass crops, browse, poachers,predators,logging mature mass crop trees, immature crop trees now producing nuts, a 5 mile radius of what others are doing, the list goes on and on. For all one knows it could be a farmer planted some crop that attracted many deer and they just moved off your property, now the guy stopped, deer returned and it happened to coincide with your non trophy hunting theory. If you read the article I posted earlier you would understand these studies prove that these trophys are not the only breeders. I would take a guess that if anything those trophys being gone took the pressure off the younger class bucks and they bred more readily. Also understand that those young bucks are moving off that property. I can tell you the biggest influence on deer here at home is availability of food. There is just not much or any real sized farms around here at home. When mass crops are poor its noticeable in number of deer sightings.

Do you understand the only way to get bigger and older age class deer is to have a diversified healthy herd that is balanced to the lands herd capacity? To get this older class herd you must have a younger class to grow up. You honestly dont know what qdma is.

If this is true and your within say 5 miles of him, your very own management practices have played a large role in his deer herd. This is what most these guys dont get. The bucks born on his property arent staying there, if anything him shooting young age class deer effects his neighbors in a 5 mile radius and vice versa.

Apparently you also do not know what QDMA is. Its quality deer management not quality big buck management. Dont feel bad there are many who do not understand this either.

I dont care who you are, thats funny right there.

This https://www.qdma.com/will-dominant-bucks-dominate-breeding/ And do some research on Doe genetics Your theory is delusional at best