Better hope it is a banner year or the prices are going to go thru the roof and kill the market and we will be back to trying to give it away again.
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Better hope it is a banner year or the prices are going to go thru the roof and kill the market and we will be back to trying to give it away again.
Brandon,
That is a sugar maker's outlook if I've ever heard one. "Prices will be so high that the market will go to crap." We are like economists; it is always doom and gloom on the horizon.
Not trying to be a pesimistic, but the economy is not real stable now and maple is not a neccessity. Higher prices are going to kill demand if they get too high. The one thing that will help is that maple is an organic product and we need to push that end of it as people are getting more organic conscience.
Jon,
Thanks I may need some help!
I finished fabricating my draw off station frame to hold a sst container and ball valve combo. I need to paint it.
Does anyone draw off into a container with a ball valve? Then empty that into a bucket, then dump syrup into filters in another tank? Wasn't sure if the syrup might cool to much to filter well? I can always go back to the cone filter directly under the draw off too. Or draw directly into a bucket/s then move syrup to the filter tank.
Doesn't look like and sap flow for another week?
Chris
We won't hear from theron anytime soon on here. He got over 2000 gallons of sap today.
Big boiling session tonight.
Matt,
Thought it was a lot quieter here tonight. :) I just knew something was up. Did he have it shipped in?
We do not have any syrup weather at this time.
Chris
Or did someone hook up one of his mainlines to a stream??
Sure sounds like something is up! Rumur around here last year was Matt was still making syrup while the rest of us were mowing our lawns! Then we heard DEP was concerned that the Saco river was running way to low below the town of Buxton, ME but levels were normal upstream. Last week wasn't Matt at Therons getting him ready for BIGSAP! I'd be checking those sap filters for signs of brook trout! LOL
Mark
Matts messing with you guys. Ive just been working a lot getting ready. No end it seems. Id like to get some more taps in but ive got to get everything shipshape. Im hoping for the big sap monday. 39 sunday 30 at night and 43 monday. Hopefully BIGSAP. Hopefully have the sugarhouse shipshape and I can start boring more holes. Theeeron
Mark-
Last year was the truth, no one believed it but anyone was welcome to come over and see. I think we'll all be boiling pretty long this year. Well into april I bet. If I could RO the saco river and get some sugar out of it I'd do it.
Theron does have a nice little brook right behind the sugarhouse. And I just felt pretty bad that he didn't need a single sap ladder to get that hill of maples to the sugarhouse. Or this "shed" he keeps talking about.
Theron, might want to test the sugar % in those tanks before you boil it just in case.