{"id":234,"date":"2011-03-03T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:24:03","slug":"off-to-a-slow-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Off to a Slow Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day got off to a slow start.&nbsp; Went to start the tractor.&nbsp; Nothing happens.&nbsp; The battery is dead.&nbsp; The charger was on the battery two days ago so its not even holding a charge.&nbsp;&nbsp; We took the battery out and went to Fleet Farm to get a new battery.&nbsp; That was $45.00 which is a pretty good price.&nbsp; With the new battery the tractor started fine.&nbsp; But the tractor runs rough.&nbsp; It takes&nbsp; 15 to 20 minutes to warm up to run properly.<\/p>\n<p>Made it into the woods about 1:00 PM to break some trails with the tractor.&nbsp; That was slow going.&nbsp; There is not a lot of snow in the woods.&nbsp; 10\u201d maybe.&nbsp; But the tractor chugs along through it.&nbsp; It rocks from side to side as the wheels spin down for traction.&nbsp; And with the narrow front wheels it tends to snow plow rather then roll through.<\/p>\n<p>The tapper, which sat unused for a year, started on five pulls.&nbsp; Its such a hardy device.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally we got 50 buckets and headed out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sap is moving in the trees.&nbsp; Sap started flowing when we tapped.&nbsp; We got the 50 taps out.&nbsp; One way or another we were going to get some taps out today.<\/p>\n<p>The weather during the next few days is a wintery mix.&nbsp; Snow changing to rain changing back to snow.&nbsp; Sunday looks good.&nbsp; But next week a major snow storm may move in.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day got off to a slow start.&nbsp; Went to start the tractor.&nbsp; Nothing happens.&nbsp; The battery is dead.&nbsp; The charger was on the battery two days ago so its not even holding a charge.&nbsp;&nbsp; We took the battery out and went to Fleet Farm to get a new battery.&nbsp; That was $45.00 which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-season-94"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}