-15 BELOW here this morning! Think I'll go wash a few tanks.
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-15 BELOW here this morning! Think I'll go wash a few tanks.
Mike- You and Jerry hooked me up bigtime. This is great. That R.O is usually performing way above rating now no prob. Biggest thing I really need is more press like you guys said but no prob Im getting along. Theron
Theron - We'll start pulling our weight up here when someone turns off the cold Alaskan air! At this rate you'll be golfing by the time we're boiling...
just checked the weather update. starting thursday there is a 9 day stretch of perfect sap weather. BIG SAP COMING RIGHT UP Well not the big sap theron's got but BIG SAP FOR ME Should be getting around 600 gallons a day for 9 days puts me in the one day theron sap. Does that count?
I would gladly give up sleep for a whole month if possible. So far only sleep I am looseing is because I figure its another ice age coming and there never will be sap running. I have been looking at that bag of pancake mix for two weeks now.
Its all BIGSAP to me. I think syruping is a blast whether its 20 taps or 2000. Its just plain fun. Might be the fewer is actually more fun, thats how I did it for years. Having a lot of taps is pretty awesome but it can be kind of a burden till you get the bugs figured out. I think a guy wants to strive for efficiency no matter how big a sugarbush hes running and it makes it that much more fun. Takes a litte while to get everything finetuned then its really great. I think you guys are going to be coming on strong soon with the weather thats coming. Thats what I thought too about 9 days in a row or something. Im going to go home and boil tonight and try to finetune my filtering better. I think the sap is going to get really big soon. Theron
Csap Czar, what are you using for a filter....I think (actually I know) that will be my weak link. 7" short bank hand pump....Should I upgrade NOW?
My wife, bless her heart, who has no idea regarding the details what all this syrup stuff is about, looked at me and said "that hand press is going to kill your system" Shes probably right.
As of now, 1600 taps on High vac, new lines, 300 on buckets....Come on!
Theron has a short bank with a gear pump. In his case I would either have a double full bank seven inch or a 10inch. The bare minimum I would have is a single full bank seven incher. That Pennsylvannia Fancy likes to clog up a press. The reason I am saying he needs that much filtering capacity is he is always saying he isn't going to expand anymore, well we know how that works don' we.
I guess in your case are you going to be expanding anymore? If not just add a gearpump to your setup and you will be fine. Just remember that if you only concentrate to 8% percent or somewhere around there you will be making about 3 to 4 times as much syrup per hour then you did last year.
Jeff- Im kind of thinking if theres anyway you can afford it maybe you should CHANGE IT NOW!!!, WHAT, ARE YOU CRAZY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF BIGSAP IS COMING YOUR WAY??? I think you better get the one with the gear pump at least like Jerry says. Im pretty busy with mine. I have to change it out every 20 gallons right now becouse this stuff is pretty clogy. Last year I would get 25 maybe or a scosh more. Had a great night tonight boiling. Had my last 2000 gallons worked up into the headtank last night waiting for dad. Boiled it tonight in two hours. All my numbers are approximate becouse I pumped the sap out of a semi trailer and then Im filling 55 gallon drums so who knows exact. Looked like it made 40 gallons of syrup and looks like Im settling into 20 gallons of syrup per hour off my rig which I dont think is too bad for a 3 by 10. Pretty funny, we had the line froze to the head tank and dad thawed it out and accicently ran the flue pan way high. Well, Jerry got my evap working so good I can boil it hard full or low dont matter much. By the time dad got ready to draw I figured it would be a humdinger becouse all of the concentrate I put in the tank till I rinsed the membrane was 19%. It was a big draw all right, dad opened up the valve full throttle and it didnt stop till we had 20 gallons in front of us. He didnt seem to phased, he doesnt like to stay up at night real late either so we were both happy although he was a little surprised. Looks like were bearing down on 300 gallons. I think were pretty close. Big Berthas going to start dumping in a day or two and then were going to get some real sap I think. Ive got to keep the cracker barrell kids happy till you guys kick in up north. Zar
We're ready for that bigsap, but it looks like it won't be here for a couple of weeks. Really cold here until Friday, and then maybe we'll be back into sugaring weather...
We've had some problems with vandalism lately, but I hope we get them worked out before the season.
It seems like people who are too lazy to do work like to make trouble.