had over 6,000 gallons come in by this afternoon, still running, should be a good day tomorrow. Temps down into the mid 20s this morning, should be the same tonight.
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had over 6,000 gallons come in by this afternoon, still running, should be a good day tomorrow. Temps down into the mid 20s this morning, should be the same tonight.
Pulled in about 1400 gal. around 2% in the last 30 hours. Boiled 300 last night and another 400 tonight. Made about 17 gallons and up to about 55 for season. Sap is still running and at least I have some room in the tanks now. Came very close to overflowing this afternoon as I had to work today and couldn't boil til almost 5.
Supposed to freeze tonight and I hope it does. Hope to get caught up tomorrow. The season is finally here.
13000 gal of sap. Made 260gal of Medium. RO'ing as I type for the morning.
I only got 3300 gallons yesterday but we froze good last night. I hope today will bring more. Testing 2%
Spud
I've had a good friend boiling for me the last 2 nights. He doesn't understand all the technology that we have, but enjoys boiling the 25% sap I put into the rig! Does my heart good to see his smile and his eyes light up while running the rig. I learned a lot about the maple gig many years ago from him, and love having the chance to give a little back to him. He so looks forward to coming out each year for this. Many Thanks Eddie!! Hope he can come out and play a few more days this year.
Sap slowed down a little yesterday, but we still had a good run---made 45 gallons of Amber Rich syrup last night.
Yesterday stunk for me as the overnight low was only 36 trees did not reset. When I left there this morning to come to work for a few hours it was 30 I hope that was enough for a recharge. April first was great day thou
Tuesday and Wednesday I boiled about 150 gallons of sap and finally got my first draws, about 2 1/2 gallons of near syrup for finishing.
Northfield, VT
2013 6 buckets, 6 sap sacks, concrete block fire pit in the woods and 20 gallon agway galvanized watering pan for boiling, produced 2 gallons of 'campfire' grade, Kubota L3200 for woods work
2014 2x4 WSE evaporator, 20x30 barn/sugar house, 116 taps on gravity tubing, 3 buckets, 6 sapsacks
I've had a good friend boiling for me the last 2 nights. He doesn't understand all the technology that we have, but enjoys boiling the 25% sap I put into the rig! Does my heart good to see his smile and his eyes light up while running the rig. I learned a lot about the maple gig many years ago from him, and love having the chance to give a little back to him. He so looks forward to coming out each year for this. Many Thanks Eddie!! Hope he can come out and play a few more days this year.
Sap slowed down a little yesterday, but we still had a good run---made 45 gallons of Amber Rich syrup last night.
Mplrwks, That "old friend" talks about going out to help you all year long, He always brings it up about how much fun it is to see your rig boiling that high octane sap... he says, all you do is flip the switch and start drawing syrup, just amazing ! It really is something he loves to do, thanks for having him out to get his fix of maple every year.
Am I allowed to come to your sugar house mike?:-D I promise not to say anything about the secret stuff going on
Made 4 more barrells today.That puts me at 770 gallons made so far. I have had about 100 taps i had to pull in the last few days because they dried up. But the weather looks really good coming up.
I got 4200 gallons today testing 2.1%. Total syrup made from my sap is 748 Gallons.
Spud
Randy---how things holding up??
Mike,
How are things going with you this year?
Chasing leaks every day. No vacuum on 1 bush, motor burned up, new 1 should be here in a couple days. R.O. is dialed in perfect. 20% first pass and it is keeping up with my rig.
Only about 50 gallons left to boil from the big run tuesday into wednesday, then onto the 300 or so I pulled in yesterday. Up to 70 gallons so far, all golden delicate.
Not the most impressive run yesterday but the clouds and the wind kept things cool I guess. Will be interesting to see what happens the next few days with some rain and no freeze tonight predicted. Could get another 2 day gusher.
Had a minor malfunction with the rig Tuesday. Went to pull the air control for the door and it came completely off. Fortunately I was able to wire tie the armature open to keep boiling with full air. CDL had someone here the next morning and he replaced all the cables for all three controls as there have been a few issues on other rigs.
Hi Brandon--Things are going well for us this year. Vacuum is the highest I've ever had, but the sap won't run. The ground here is frozen real deep, though it is softening. I am at 138 gallons and will make another 20 or so this afternoon. Sap is running pretty good right now---hope to have a lot of sap to boil tomorrow.
another morning at 10 degrees. Supposed to be the same tomorrow. Taking up to noon to get warm enough to get the sap running. Supposed to get temps in the 20s at night for the next week so hopefully things will run a little better. What a tough spring.
Made about 13 gallons so far. Have 385 gallons of sap waiting for the R/O. Hopefully tomorrow will bring in about 200 gallons more. I am looking to see how long 500-600 gallons of sap will take us to process. We did 400 gallons of sap in about 5 hours on Thursday and ended up with about 8 gallons of syrup.
Mike
Had a very good day yesterday. sap started running about 10:00am and I got 7000 gallons so far. Sap was still running 200GPH at midnight with a very hard rain. I have not checked it yet this morning and it is now 33 degrees outside. I hope I got a little freeze so the trees will recharge.
Randy,
I am sorry to hear you are having a lot of troubles. Are the tree rats everywhere in your woods? I hope you get your pump back up and running very soon.
Spud
Thanks spud, My brother got the inches back up to 26 at my 4 releasers yesterday. He used 110 connectors. A spot i went through 2 weeks ago. Now i am having alot of trouble with my double releaser. Where the float bar comes up, The glue crapped out. Glued it again but when it dumps and goes to the other side there is so much air pressure going the other way that it will come unglued after a few hours. A year of huge headaches. I will be over 1000 gallons today and that big frigan black cloud is still following me around.
Mike-- hope it turns for you guys soon. I know what tough years are like and when it goes from cold to warm. I pray for your sakes it doesn't. I made syrup up to the first of April which is about 10 days past normal end of the season so hope you guys can go up into May. Seems like some of the guys in Ohio and PA had a good year so hopefully it is coming your way.
I was able to get 1800 gallons today before it froze up. Tomorrow should be a very good day. Hey Randy is it possible to go get a new releaser so no production is lost? You can pay the dealer after the season is over. Then you have the off season to fix the releaser you're having trouble with. Once fixed keep it for a spare.
Spud
Made 4 more barrells today. That puts me over 1000. Should make another 1000 this coming week.
We made three more barrels today which put us at around 720 gallons on the year. All a nice medium, flirting with Fancy at times. We still have a lot of ground to make up so hopefully mother nature cooperates.
Hey ChevyPower sounds like things are going well. I really think we have 3 weeks to go. Snow was still two feet deep on the back side of my woods yesterday. Last year we ended on the 20th but I think mother nature is going to give us an extra week this year. The 10 day forecast looks great. Good luck to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by chevypower
Spud
I hope your right, but I'm not so optimistic.. Sap flow slowed down quite a bit yesterday so hopefully the cooler weather last night will give the trees a good charge. Good luck to you also.
Alll aboard sugaring train heading to Thads choooooo choooo
16 more taps this am. Over 600 gal so far and should make another 100 gal today.
Hey rusty I will gather your sap while you are gone today!!!😄😄
Be careful pulling up on Brian's property, hue is carrying, some stole his log splinter next to vac shack, looking to have some Shari law revenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by wsugar
I got 7500 gallons again today. Sap is still running a bit tonight but should freeze up later. Hope to have another great day tomorrow.
Spud
Up to 105 gal. and sap is still coming in. Was able to get caught up and boil all that was stored and most of what came in today. Sugar has been 2.2 - 1.8 with high after a freeze and low after no freeze. Yesterday syrup went to amber rich. Cleaned syrup pans this am and went back to golden delicate. Should get interesting this week with a freeze tonight and maybe wednesday. May start getting some darker syrup. Have enough wood to make 150 so need to finish cutting slab pile, and get into some logs as well.
With brand new tubing and some taps only in since late march, should be able to weather some warm days. Long range has several freezes next week.
Made 3 barrells today. Puts me at 1120. Sap didnt run real hard for me today.
Processed 700 gallons through the R/O and evaporator. Made 12 gallons today. Started at 7:45 and finished about 2:15.....much better than the pre-R/O times.
Mike
175 gallons made today/evening. 1600 for the season. Looks like tomorrow should be a 200+ day. Currently 28 and falling.
Uhh burned pan over weekend lost 4 gal syrup cleaned up with wood chisel red scotch brute fired here back up finished night out.
Made 10+ gal last night almost another melt down firing up again tonight
Pulled in about 800 gal. from yesterday am to now. Not sure if we had a real freeze last night though there was some ice on the ground. Boiled this afternoon and made about 10 gal. First five still golden delicate but not sure about the rest. Sugar dropped to about 1.8 in today's sap. Still running but has slowed down quite a bit. Will boil off the rest tomorrow and clean everything up in hopes for another freeze wednesday night.
Vacuum has been key this year. My buckets are pretty much done and have probably produced about 4 gal./tap, maybe a bit more.
I took a day off from boiling and fixed some leaks and collected all day. Got about 5000 gallons of sap. Pulled another 30 taps today due to dead, dry holes. The pumps stay on tonight, should be a big boil tomorow.
Collected about 440 gallons of sap and turned it into 110 gallons of 6.25% sap ready to boil first thing in the morning. My Father and I spent the evening draining the evaporator and washing it with permeate. Removed a lot of crude. We warmed the sweet sap and filtered it before putting it back in. It made a difference.
Mike
Despite heavy south winds, thunder, lightning, and heavy rain the sap flow picked up overnight and I pulled in another 250 gallons. Sugar down to 1.5% but it is time to start making some darker syrup. Forecast is looking interesting with a possible marginal freeze tonight, a more likely freeze tomorrow night, but then warm for several days and next possible freeze next tuesday. Not sure the syrup flavor will stay good through the warm up but we'll find out.
Time to cut some slabs and then get to boiling. Been pretty lucky with leaks during the season and have only had to fix two squirrel chews. Pump has been on for the last week and vac. is 27 " in the woods.
Got 1 gpt yesterday which was pretty good with the temps we had. Boiled 25 gallons of nice dark syrup, bringing us close to 300 for the season. Weather doesn't look that promising for the next week, maybe a freeze tonight. Going to start hanging more mainlines on thursday, while it is nice and warm.