TheRex Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 BTV's snowfall totals from the Jan 9-10 snow event. The mountains did well. The ski resorts will have a really nice solid base going into the long holiday weekend. Quote 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Tater Posted January 10 Moderators Share Posted January 10 8 minutes ago, TheRex said: I've helped my neighbor in the past gather sap from some acreage that they tap. They tap with buckets and gather with two horses pulling a wagon or sleigh. They try to do the process like it was being done 100 years ago. After seeing how much hard work it is to make maple syrup, it should be sold for at least $200 a gallon. Economies of scale certainly play a role. I've tweaked a few things and improved a few things over the decade or so I've been making syrup, and while I'm making twice as much syrup as when I first started out, it isn't twice as much work. A commercial operation with vacuum lines and very few collection points takes a lot of labor out of gathering sap. Using reverse osmosis saves a lot of boiling (I haven't incorporated this yet), and oil/gas fired evaporators take the work out of feeding the fire (I use wood with no plans to change). Filtering syrup is always a problem in small operations. Once you get large enough to use a filter press (and the other handling equipment that necessitates), filtering and bottling is a much less intensive operation. If everyone had to make syrup with buckets, wood fires, and no reverse osmosis, maple syrup probably would be $200/gal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCC Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Any wind reports for NJ, it was bad here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Tater Posted January 10 Moderators Share Posted January 10 2 hours ago, Uscg Ast said: The sugar dust btw... Amazingly Combustible. Many kinds of dust are very dangerous. Feed mill explosions are all too common from welding repairs that ignite the grain dust. OSHA gives the following (not exhaustive) list: "A wide variety of materials that can be explosible in dust form exist in many industries. Examples of these materials include: food (e.g., candy, sugar, spice, starch, flour, feed), grain, tobacco, plastics, wood, paper, pulp, rubber, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, dyes, coal, metals (e.g., aluminum, chromium, iron, magnesium, and zinc)." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrumberg Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 No real wind here last night with my ananometer recording 17mph gusts. I did receive 2.25" of frontend snow yesterday from this storm. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators telejunkie Posted January 10 Moderators Share Posted January 10 (edited) Power has just come back after being out for 20 hours and the winds have started ripping again...now out of the west. Lights are flickering...see if we can keep it on this time. Some snow moving in too... Edited January 10 by telejunkie 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cer5059 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Power is still out here, but we were able to get the generator going. Made a service call to the company that installed it in March, we moved in in June, and they came out and got it running. Somehow, the battery was dead. The thing has only been installed since March and has run a couple of times for no more than an hour. Something sounds off to me but it's fixed and we have power 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StretchCT Posted January 11 Moderators Share Posted January 11 Portland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StretchCT Posted January 11 Moderators Share Posted January 11 We didn't discuss coastal flooding much but Hampton Beach got a little wet today. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StretchCT Posted January 11 Moderators Share Posted January 11 Yantic River dam collapse. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators StretchCT Posted January 13 Moderators Share Posted January 13 More Maine Costal flooding video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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