Please Help Me I'm Drowning....

[DonMcJr]

In a Ton of SAP!!!! Not necessarily a bad thing!

I boiled 65 Gallons down yesterday and last collection was Friday evening. Boiled to almost nothing last night except maybe 5 gallons that just ran in my gravity line. Today I have another 72 Gallons...

2013- The year of the Never-Ending Sap! Compared to last year!

[Revi]

I know what you mean. I think we'll get caught up in the next couple of days.

[not_for_sale]

Don,

Here is my suggestion: look at my Flux Capacitor thread. You can switch that thing on overnight and it removes half to 75 percent of the water from the sap while you sleep.

[DonMcJr]

I looked at that already...I'm thinking about it...:rolleyes:

[Run Forest Run!]

The soft maples I tap were asleep today for some reason, HOWEVER, the 4 taps that I have in sugar maples gave me 7 gallons today! The buckets were pouring over the top when I got to them. There was no way to get them off their hooks without dumping sap.

I'm in the middle of my first boil right now. Am I happy? You bet I am! Getting ready to hook up the lights for a boil that will go into the night. I'm six hours in and loving it!

[Dennis H.]

Would you like us to send you some of those arm floaties?:evil:

[DonMcJr]

Lmao! I might actaully need arm floaties if my creek floods any more...

I decided to start boiling again and all night then I can bottle it all together tomorrow night and I wont go over my sap holding capacity.

Karen good job!

[dufftj]

Hey Don,
What a great problem to have! Here in the artic tundra:) my trees are just starting to wake up......Maybe a week or so before I get any real flow to fire up my three pan block arch.....Until then I'm reading every last post I can about sap flow....
Tim

[bowtie]

collected on saturday, i had about 15 gallons from 10 yard taps and 50 gallons from 290 taps in the woods, sunday i collected about 10 gallons from yard taps and 150 ish from woods. unfortunately i was not able to boil last night, and today i am guessing that i will get at least 150-200 gallons total, so i will have 300-350 to boil. at 15 ish gph i think i will be there a while. it would be nice if it would even out but thats not not how it works. feast or famine.

[not_for_sale]

What is nice about an RO is that it removes water while you are away. The difference in volume is just as amazing as sap to syrup. When you have a couple barrels reduced to a couple buckets without doing anything you check if there's a leak somewhere.