Great day to boil! Lines and buckets are frozen, you’ll find me cracking a few beers, watching the boil.
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Great day to boil! Lines and buckets are frozen, you’ll find me cracking a few beers, watching the boil.
I boiled last evening, emptied the pan which is now soaking in vinegar.
I plan to tap a few more on buckets today with my daughter.
Then I'll sit down and enjoy a cold beer myself!
Beautiful day out there today.
Stayed up late Thursday to finish boiling before the freeze. Jarred up a little over 2 gallons of syrup. Makes 7.5 gallons finished and packed so far this season.
It hit 8 here this morning, I'm going to wait till tomorrow to scrub the pan and enjoy a beer inside where it's warm. A nice little pause to get everything prepped up for the next run.
Had 650 gallons to boil yesterday. A chilly start at 8 degrees. Had a heat lamp in the arch and some heat tape wrapped around the milk tank outlet. Was up and going pretty quickly. Wife made dinner reservations for 7:00 so I did what I could and flooded the pan at 5:30. Have a pretty full pan and about 80 gallons of concentrate to finish up today.
Looks like some good flow days coming this week.
Are taps have had varying results so far.
some trees producing a lot and some almost none.
Our 3/16 lines that have good drop are running the best. Next year we plan on running more 3/16 and less bags.
Also thinking about using backflow taps. Anyone have experience with these? I think this may help us by allowing a longer run and not worrying so much about tapping to early.
We have about 300+ taps, most of them in a new area we just started to thin out. We are not getting much from them but hopping thinning other trees out of the bush will help that..
I have not quite figured how to add information to my profile but when I have time I will.
We live in Willington, CT
Boiling today while we bottle :)
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Anyone have taps flowing today? I thought because of the temp my taps would start flowing again after the past two extremely cold days. Hasn’t happened tho.
My lines are moving today temp has been around 40 since 10am. Not much sun though to really get things moving.
Monday and Tuesday should make for better days