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My arch has settled off level so I just went ahead and batched it yesterday. Ran through about 150 gallons of sap and have about 7 gallons to finish off on the turkey fryer. Hoping for 4 or so gallons of finished syrup.
Yesterday's boil went pretty well, but, I have a few tweaks to make so things will speed up a little bit.
Sam
pulled 52 gallons tonight, left 10-12 out in the buckets.....getting hard to keep up :lol:
I pulled off 75 -80 gallons last night. Another day like that and I'll be at capacity again. I may have to get some night boils started, especially if it's going to rain on Saturday.
Sam
Well yesterday did not flow like Monday day, but, there was a bit of sap to collect. Today has promise, now I just need to hope the weather starts looking better for Saturday and Sunday as I pretty much need 2 days to boil the sap I have.
Sam
It never got below freezing night before last. Last night and tonight should provide for decent runs for today and tomorrow. But...it's SAP and has its own mind.
Last night my BIL and I finished 1/2 of the 4 gallons I had pulled and ended up with just under 1 gallon of product, which means that I need to wait until my digital thermometer in the pan is at 219 vs 217 (may be a cpl degrees off true) when pulling going forward. I am leary about waving my brittle hydrometer around near the stove which is why I am not using that as a guide (maybe next year after laying in a couple spares).
I will finish the rest tonight in anticipation of a similar amount.
Pull tonight and tomorrow night,then boil friday night and saturday. More WOOD!
between Monday and last night I've gathered 130 gallons so it'll be a long weekend boiling. Finished the rest of what I'd drawn and made, again, just less than a gallon. I'm definitely drawing too soon. This years crop is lighter in color than prior years, probably because of not batch boiling but it tastes amazing.
I'm so gravity lining that fricking hill.
so I boiled 50 gals last night and never got near to drawing....I may have to clean my pan. I had to rebalance my pan and I seem to have lost the gradient, too.
and in yet another small setback, a couple of firebricks got loose from the walls so I have to patch THAT before continuing. I still have 20 gallons in the tank and prolly another sixty in the buckets to pull so IF I can find some firebrick mortar I can patch the walls and use this oppo to get a pan cleaning in (last few pulls have been very dark). This will probably be my last pull of the season (running out of wood....AGAIN) which would put me close to 400 gallons. I don't think I'm going to get much over 8 gallons of syrup but we will see.
I boiled 200 + yesterday and finished up at about 2am. Not sure the syrup output, but, I shoudl have that fingured pout this evening.
Eustis,
The COOP in Ipswich has fire place cement. The other option is to just skip the bricks. I had a few come loose and restacked what I could and tossed the rest.
Sam
Thanks sam....I have a place in Lawrence where I get my firebrick. I'm wondering if the splits are too skinny to stay put and I should go with fulls for next year.
What size is your evap?