Evaporator is clean, 200 of my planned 300 taps in, tanks set and cleaned. Little bit fof sap ran today but not much. Made it to 46 degres today. Hopfully we will have syrup by wednesday night if the forcast stays the way it is right now.
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Evaporator is clean, 200 of my planned 300 taps in, tanks set and cleaned. Little bit fof sap ran today but not much. Made it to 46 degres today. Hopfully we will have syrup by wednesday night if the forcast stays the way it is right now.
Got the home made roof Jack done today. I also dug out my milk tank. My dads buddy came over and looked at my evaporator pans and took the plug from my bulk tank so he could drill it out and weld a 1" female NPT fitting on it. Milk tank threads are a pain in the ***. On saturday he's welding thermometer ports on my pan. I got a stock tank for my neibors woods and ordered a pump from tractor supply company today. Tommorow I'm moving my arch into the sugar shack and I'll start to brick it. The seasons almost here.
Hopefully I'll tap this week and can boil by Sunday. Nothing like last minute.
This sucks its 50 degs sunny and the sap must be running like mad and I'm stuck inside not tapping.
I've been considering changing my name to Last minute maple, but I think you have me beat this year.
It was warm here high of 41 again with rain up to 2pm. I was thankful to see that. Lost alot of snow today and over the weekend. Betting 2 feet melted. Did some changes on the milk can releaser and let her run all day. Works rather well and did not have a problem. She will be all plumbed in couple days sitting on the tank and vac pump connected. Then cobb up a roof over it all and then drill some holes, then give head tank a rinse and boil some water to get the dust out of the evaporator. Will be online by midweek, just in time for the next cold spell and snow storm. Man this maple stuff is alot of work.
I just sent 20 gallons of sap down the drain....... It is still drizzling in. I blew it I should have tested the sweetness. Dang it. Anyway, I have about 2700 more to tap and some more work on the conductor line and manifolds and I am ready. Its coming quick.
One of the 1st great days for sap to run and the power company decides that they need to shut off the power for like 5 hrs to replace some kind of surge protector. Right in the best part of the day, 11am till 4pm. Man that sucks I am wondering what kind of sap I missed.
But the buckets are doing good though. They would do better if the darn wind would stop.
I know we need to check everything before we start Thad, but the drains???:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thad Blaisdell
have not tapped yet still way to much snow in the woods i got a little to finish up in the sugar house hook up the new preheater and hang the new steam hood over the front pan hope to test run the releaser tomorow wash everything up and be ready to go
We have 6 inches in places where it hasnt melted yet. Everywhere else around my area has no snow at all. Got 200 gallons sunday from 150 taps. Hoping to start evaporating wednesday.
Well got my 5 taps in on Sunday, 3 gallons collected so far. Going be a cold windy night but warm up nice the rest of the week. Going to tap 3 more trees on the weekend. This is only my second year of doing this but friends are already asking to come down the shore for the boiling. I think they just want to stand around an open fire, drink beer, eat some clams and goof off.
2010 2 trees 8oz
2011 goal is 8 trees and a half gallon.