Around 28 for the\u00a0 overnight low.\u00a0 Cloudy and then rainy today.\u00a0 High around 40.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prepared the storage tanks and syrup building today.\u00a0 Had to break up the ice around the storage tanks and wash the tanks.\u00a0\u00a0 Put up the new smoke stack.\u00a0\u00a0 Prepared the values and pipes from the storage tanks to the evaporator.\u00a0 Our plan was to start collecting around 2:00 PM.\u00a0 Help arrived to help us collect.\u00a0 We were delayed again by tractor trouble.\u00a0 The battery was completely dead.\u00a0 Hooked up the charger.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
While charging one of the helpers said he knew tractors.\u00a0 We told him of our troubles.\u00a0 He started looking at it.\u00a0 Found water in the air filter.\u00a0 He said its common for water to get into the air filter when the tractor is used for snow plowing, which ours is.\u00a0\u00a0 Dried it out and added a clean oil bath.\u00a0 After the charge was completed the tractor started right away.\u00a0 Maybe we were sucking water in through the air filter.\u00a0 That would cause problems.\u00a0 We await to see what happens in the coming days.<\/p>\n
The new collecting tank with the self standing legs is nice.\u00a0 It stays in place on the wagon.\u00a0 We struggled for too many years with that round bottom tank.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
About 4:30 PM it started raining.\u00a0 It will melt the snow, but leave a mess.\u00a0 Tomorrow rain continues.\u00a0 Next week it gets colder but there may be a few good days for us.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we start the evaporator and boil.\u00a0\u00a0 We will have syrup soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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