Crawlers and maple syrup

[MarkP]

My crawler just made it to my farm this fall. We make maple syrup and I thought the crawler would be great to collect sap with. I'm wondering if anyone has done something similar and if so, where / how did you mount your collecting tank on the crawler?

Thanks,
Mark

[JD430C]

hello mark, i work for a friend in the spring that sugars, he does 7,000 pipline taps and this year my brother and I will be doing 1,000 to 1,500 buckets. for him. the last two years we used a JD 430 crawler with a pull behind trailer. think we had a 200gal tank on it, and the crawler pulled it fine. i will check, but i dont think i have any pics of the setup. i am hoping he finds a bigger trailer, cause it will take several trips this spring with just a 200gal tank .

andrew

[Dave Seager]

My crawler just made it to my farm this fall. We make maple syrup and I thought the crawler would be great to collect sap with. I'm wondering if anyone has done something similar and if so, where / how did you mount your collecting tank on the crawler?

Thanks,
Mark

Hi Mark,
Go to the "Off Topic Discussion" forum and scroll down to the "King of Obsolete" topic (last May). Read the last post from me. It describes sugaring with a 420C.
Dave

[digitup2]

That is what my little 40c did in the spring from 55 to late 90s the back of the farm was a peat bog swamp hole and they summer market gardened twenty four acres or so with the 40c and a 500 International crawler loader .I don't know how they got the 500 across the bog .I drained the back of the farm three years ago and we couldn't even touch it with a rubber tired backhoe .I got a 8 ton mini excavator to dig start holes and we strung tile with the 350D widetrack and crossed our fingers that the plow would cross it .The son told me if they hit the black dirt twice with the cultivator the field was perfect .The 40c did all the black land work by the look of it and a little 20 Cocshutt tractor was on a trailer with a stainless milk cooler built into it The 40c pulled this trailer when the snow was still on the ground .I got the 40c the first trip and the little 20 cocshutt on the second trip. I could have sold both several times over on the 30 mile trip home as well.

[mini kahuna]

crawlers and sap drawing are a natural,but crawlers and icy grades are very dangerous,once you start sliding sideways down hill.....your a goner.
I was walking up a icy patch will the little 1010...going straight up,as soon as I touched the steering a little the whole machine started to pivot the other way....I dropped the scarifer down and it stopped me from sliding.
I shut the dozer off and left it there,scared the you know what out of me.