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Low budget maple
02-16-2011, 12:06 PM
Well I think I am ready !?!?!?! After work headed out to put up my small 150 taps to work. Here we go. Hope it's better than last year !!
Dave Y
02-16-2011, 12:16 PM
Well I think I am ready !?!?!?! After work headed out to put up my small 150 taps to work. Here we go. Hope it's better than last year !!

Good luck to you Chuckie. Let me know how you do.
green4310
02-16-2011, 10:54 PM
Finished tapping and did test run with pump on. Had to repair couple of leaks but all seems go, for a hopefully nice early run tomorrow and friday. Tomorrow I got to get the RO washed and try to see if I can remember how the evap. goes back together. Good luck to all.
Low budget maple
02-17-2011, 12:34 PM
Thanks Dave . Good luck to you too !! Got 78 in last nite before the snow hot to deep for the tractor. Hopefully the next day or two I can get in and get the other 80 in.
Low budget maple
02-25-2011, 09:47 PM
Hmmm !! 9 days and a total of 50 gal of sap. I just may have to cool my jets and not tap till march next year.
green4310
02-27-2011, 07:03 AM
This week looks incouraging.
Low budget maple
02-28-2011, 08:35 AM
At last !?!?! We had a good run late yesterday into this morning. Hope to collect 100 gal after work and get a good run on my home made steam away to see what exactly the improvment will be. Last year I had that sportsman pushing 25 gph with a preheater and hood. My dream this year is 32 gph with the improvments.
Low budget maple
03-04-2011, 01:13 PM
I ran with my new home made steam away and averaged 30 gph. Ran out of sap before I got everything dialed in. Now waiting just like everybody else on some sap.
Sugarmaker
03-04-2011, 08:35 PM
LBM,
Should be boiling Sat. Hope you get a good run.
I would be interested in comparing note on your steam away.
Chris
Low budget maple
03-25-2011, 08:13 AM
Well I am sitting at 26 of my 30 Gal goal. Waiting for this freeze to let up and hopefully have one last long boil to show my dad my set up. He did it years ago and now he is in a wheel chair due to a stroke a couple years ago and realy wants to see the action again. Would realy be nice to get him in the sticky air again to relive this work intense hobby for a bit. Till then hope all are having a good year !!