It's time to sweeten my pans

[VA maple guy]

I got most of my taps in over the last three days. This evening i collected
about 105 gallons of sap. Tomorrow evening I will sweeten my pans. I put a
150 cfm blower on my evaporator for this year and upgraded my preheater.
I hope this will kick up my gph a little. The next two or three days look
pretty good, then maby a little to warm for early next week.
Gerry

[wvsugarshak]

Great t o hear you are getting ready to start. hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I will try to tap on friday and hope for a boil on sunday looks like a good run of weather here for awhile. My brother-inlaw is coming up for the weekend to help me get everthing going. I have built a new rig for this season pans and a new arch. IF time permits this weekend didn't know if you would be up for a visit? He has really got the sap bug bad and would love for him to see your setup. well keep the fire hot. let me know about the visit and have a great mapleseason!!!!!!

WV sugarshak

[VA maple guy]

WV sugarshak, I'll be around saturday morning putting in my last few taps.
I'll also be around sunday afternoon hopefully collecting sap. Either time
would be great.
I fired up my rig tonight and boiled off about 80 or 90 gallons. The rest
of my sap was frozen solid. It took under three hours from start up to
shut down. I looks like I picked up better than 5 gph over last year.
The first draw off looks to be fancy or medium, I haven't checked it yet.
Hope to see you soon. Gerry

[220 maple]

Va. Mapleguy
Why so quiet? How was your season? You should of had some early runs in Feb. Did it get too hot on the Red Maples and shut them down, mine retired the first week of March, my sugars still wanted to play for about two more weeks, I ended up freshing the holes and have been making some commercial syrup.
Mark 220 Maple