SweetCreek Sugarworks

Tapped 600 by 1/27/16 , 5,000 gal sap and 50 gallons syrup by 2/6 , all grade b :cry: It was 60 + 2 runs and 52 sunday 2/7

Still good old 1% woods , The whole system is working great just ( To Darn Hot ! ) Having to do 3 and 4 hot water washes on the ro before it will clean up .

Happily we have a good freeze setting in , looks like 2/15 we fire up again , wash the machine and start out fresh :cool:

Had to take the vacuum pump apart to clean up the Bakelite veins and don't ya know the silly thing decided to hold 22 inches , best it ever did was 18 inches :confused: go figure

Put the uv light back into the system , see if we can kill some of those bugs before they get to the 1,000 holding tank .....

There is a country song (Waiting on a Woman ) ...... Big thaw but 34 to 36 tops with cold rain and no sunshine , miserable weather , but there is some sunshine today ....

Sadly though we are suppose to see 59 deg tomorrow and 64 deg Saturday . -6 deg on 2/14 to 64 deg 2/19 , sap will be boiling in the lines :o

Farmim baby .....

Run started 10:30friday morning , 1900 gallons by 6:30 Saturday evening , with the vacuum shut off over friday nite , all 1500 storage full ,

but the sap temp went to 69 deg , I turned the system to dump the syrup was to strong @ 6:30 sat nite

The sap was still pouring in sat @ 6:30 I would guess this to be around a 4 to 4.5 gpt run

System again working great , just to hot ! Now we start working on un pluging the ro ..... This hot sap really jams the membranes

No real freeze until 2/26 Waitin on a Woman

3/4/16 Checked the actual high temps for feb 1 to today ( 8 days 60 to 65 deg) ( 5 days 50 to 60 deg ) These kinds of temps are death to the tap holes .

If there is any life left we should have 1 more run 3/5 to 3/8 , then it is steady 70 deg

If these temp patterns persist , it will not be practical to make syrup in this area any longer ......

8000 gallons sap & 74 gallons syrup , .123 gallon per tap ,( minimum is usually .25 per tap ):cry: