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I am with DAVEY on this 1. couple years ago i was going to keep the boil going when i quit for the night. next morning i had about 1/2 inch of what looked like caramel in the syrup pan. 2 hours to clean it. from then on if i wasnt in the building the fire was put out
RICH
SS,
Man to bad about the tank getting whacked.:( Man I would be fumin mad too.
I have a lot of SST setting at my place! As most of us do.
Hope you can get a replacement tank to get you going. Maybe plastic will be the way we will have to go?
Regards,
Chris
Made 11.5 gallons this weekend. I love GRade B syrup, it tastes great, especially with ice cream. Have made almost 70 gallons for the year so far.
AKM
SS - that just plain s_cks!
Theron - 26"? You better watch yourself, if the saps not runnin' your liable to suck those culls right into your main line, roots and all:)
Guys- I failed you guys and I failed myself. Im only holding 20" on the bush. Bright side is the releaser is dumping every 1 min 20 sec. Is that good? Theeeron
Easy TTTTHHHEEtremendouslybigsapRROONNN-not a failure,,,,you way ahead of the curve here,,,,just go out and find the leaks and fix them,,,you will get it!!! Then back up to high Vac.,,,,,when its really running your releaser will dump every 30 sec.,,,,,how much sap is in the tank?
He's not far away from 1300 gallons, at least that is what he told me at 7am. Trees didn't kick in until probably after midnight sometime. I talked to him around 10pm and just getting a dribble in the dry lines. I know those boosters were frozen solid, and beyond that there were spots that were frozen solid. We fixed a few minor sags which were frozen solid. So hopefully now keeping that pump on will reduce the freezing. Kinda hard to get vacuum and sap to go through solid pipe ice jams.
I think he's starting to buy into this "northern" tubing setup.
He called me and I told him get out there and start finding leaks. Now's when they are going to add up big time. Find a leak now and you'll get that vacuum up.
He is sticking by his national holiday, Monday Feb 18th, will be BIG SAP Monday from here on out.
He's gonna be busy today/tonight. But I'm sure he'll be on later to give updates. Or he will trust me enough to pass along the lies. NO we will stick with the truth, not even slightly modified.
Matt, does he really have that much sap! I was there around seven last night, it was starting to unfreeze but i thought there was still alot of ice in the lines and i didnt think it would unfreeze that much.
Tom-
She's broke free now. He called me around 10 to give me an update. Todd(sugarmaster's left hand man) was there setting putting in the membrane for theron and gonna give him a step by step on running it. Hat's off to Richard, that is some customer service for sure!!
He had (his best guess) 1700 gallons of sap at 10, said the sun was peaking out and releaser was dumping every minute. He walked around and found some leaks and taps that we never put in, once he did some of that he went back and got to the pump and it was at 25". So he's in good shape. Said the sap was right at 2% from what he tested.
He's gonna give me a call later on when everyone clears out and things settle down.
I went back to get what remained of my 400 gallon sunset tank yesterday.These are hard to move by yourself. Well I figured that the thief wouldnt be back so I left it until I could get help. And I put a trip wire on the path that they were useing.( I am a bastard that way).I was wrong - I go up today with my wife to drive the tractor and sure enough they were back. They swiped the motor off the vacuum pump but left the pump and stole the agitator paddle,smashed the windows on the old cars inside etc there were some boards full of nails thrown around just inside the milk house( i dont know how they got there ready to be stepped on) But the good news is That the tank cleaned up real nice and is sitting in my driveway, Maplecrest you have a Delaval 75 minus 1 motor sitting in my bucket whenever you are ready, and oh yea that trip wire, well I put it right on the path next to a colvert that was overflowing thru the barnyard and judging by the marks in what was left in the snow someone got a wet ***. -SS