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Gary R,
I am waiting to tap till next weekend unless the weather changes to very cold and then I'll wait longer. This week will be for cleaning equipment and putting up some tubing. Keep a close watch some of those days next week. Some of my best days for sap run last year the temperature was in the mid 30's. Keep us posted!
Jim
OK Who turned up the wind?? I'm up on the roof trying to finish up the stack and wammo the wind picks up!! NOT FUN !!
Had to take a tree down that was growing too close to the sugarhouse, I feel the 14" stack may have lit it up on fire if I didn't
So I still have another part of the tree to finish up, then get back up and finish sealing up the roof.
Jim,
Glad to hear everything is coming together with the new rig. Changing evaporators is alot of work, but the time saved boiling will be nice. Be careful on the roof. Mine has almost done me in twice.
Jim
Dave(crazy bucket dumpin sugarmaker)- I brought your barrells back here to my house last night becouse we were concerned someone might take them by mistake at Richards so you can get them anytime there fine. This is the update for you guys at Pierce and Sons Maple. Test taps are starting to run pretty good. These numbers are approximate but pretty darn close. Got a little under 3400 test taps total out now. My new bush across the street is working very good. We started the pump a few days ago to work on leaks and could only get around 18" of vac. Pump is a 60 and thats quite a few taps and a lot of line. We have it now to 25" everywhere now. Started running pretty good last night. By tonight Id say we will have processed 4000 gallons. Sugar is low on this first stuff but still thats a lot of sap and thats a guess kind of becouse its running now and the R O is putting 420 gallons of water outside an hour so its hard to say exactly. Weve been pretty dang busy and Matt and Russ have helped me so much its hard to thank them enough. Nothing is running up to normal levels yet I dont think but its starting to do pretty good. Couldnt suck the tanks across the road up to the sugar house and found have to pump it to get it there. Thats about it for now. Ill let you guys know how much syrup we make tonight. Going to try to take off 20 gallons of syrup an hour off my 3 by 10 tonight. Updates to come. Good luck to everyone too no matter when anyone taps. I hope everyone makes a ton. Theron
Sounds like things are going pretty smooth there 3400 taps? you really added the taps this year theron,. i have a other 2 weeks before i start tapping, been cleaning the sugarhouse out and getting all the junk out this weekend and will wont get done till probably tuesday r/o should be in pretty soon. ordering my pump monday and releaser hopfuly.
I don't care what the weather is out side, man did the sap run today. Temps were in the low 50's and last night the temps never got below high 40's.
I thought the trees would stop over night but no way, they just kept running.
The next few days look even better than the past 2, I am excited!
Have I ever mentioned that this is fun!!
I think if you are down this way, lower PA and didn't tap yet you missed a good opertunity for some big sap!!
All tapped in the woods and got about 300 gallons of sap today and that was without vacuum half the day. Don't even have my 3 gallon a day roadsides tapped yet but they will be this time next week. Going to experiment on some roapdsides with some 7/16 spouts into buckets on one side of the tree and some 5/16 into buckets on the other side. Makes sense you will get less sap from 5/16 but I am not completely convinced it will be that much less. No time to boil today but will be tomorrow that is for sure. Sap is a coming hot and heavy! This week looks great
Theron-FYI..my sap also tested very low this run.
EVAP UPDATE:
OK SO I CALLED THE GUY TONIGHT AND I GOT THAT 3X8 (leader, tin pans drop flue, and dial thermometer, and 450 gal tank) TALKED HIM DOWN FROM $1300 to $1000 FOR ALL OF IT!!!!, almost all of my line is up in the big sugar woods, ran out of lateral, should be able to finish it all up on one more roll, and one more roll to add the rest of the taps to the little woods behind the house, hopefully 175 taps down there total, got the 2 tanks from my uncles today, got his sugar house plowed out, need to solder one of them,
Hi everyone,
Its been quite a while since I've been on here and I thought I'd let you know what's going on in south western Pa. It has been a tough year because I have had a leg problem with a lot of pain. I didn't know if I would be making syrup or not and didn't want to talk about it, I was pretty bumed out, but the maple disease has finally won out over the pain in the leg. It was tough going but my friend and I put 100 taps out friday and sat with more to go. So far we have about 60 gallon of sap but have not boiled yet. I guess it just goes to show when the maple bug bites nothing will stop you. Hope everyone has a super syrup year.
Andyp
Hi everyone,
Its been quite a while since I've been on here and I thought I'd let you know what's going on in south western Pa. It has been a tough year because I have had a leg problem with a lot of pain. I didn't know if I would be making syrup or not and didn't want to talk about it, I was pretty bumed out, but the maple disease has finally won out over the pain in the leg. It was tough going but my friend and I put 100 taps out friday and sat with more to go. So far we have about 60 gallon of sap but have not boiled yet. I guess it just goes to show when the maple bug bites nothing will stop you. Hope everyone has a super syrup year.
Andyp