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THeron-
You did great, you made a couple of years worth of syrup in hours. That is a feat.
Now keep it up. Keep the blunders to a minimum if you can and keep filling drums. You are a producer now. Hobby stuff is to the wayside.
So when are you going back to boiling raw sap?
Congratulations, you stick handled through a lot of possible snags. Pretty impressive.
Thanks for mentioning the filter press line blow up. Hot syrup at maybe 40 PSI ... I better re-think the hoses I'm going to need to get mine going
THEERON
congratulations sounds like a good day for you. its always good when new things work well for you with few problems. [ GETS ME EXCITED ALMOST AS MUCH AS YOU]
RICH
How much sap did you get? Must have been quite a bit. To make 50 gallons and sweeten the pans takes some!
We only made about 45 last night. Don't have but half things tapped! Of course we're north and up on the hill, so maybe we just didn't quite get the run you did. I can't complain though because hey its only February 19th. I know I checked Sun night at 10 pm and ours was just drippin in the releaser. Vacuum was down in the morning so I went for a walk. When I can out of the woods after 2 hours dad told me I did something because we're back to 25". That's what I was aiming for!
Glad you had so much fun!
hey big sap on the 18th where would you have been with out that R/O? how many days do you think it would have taken to boil that 2400 gallons[ if you got 2 gallons per tap] with out the r/o? now you need the finish pan i have to reheat and press all that syrup. you now have graduated to a big draw off and aid mixing tank 12 to 15 gallon size so you can get it all pressed as you boil. congrates an your first boiling and your syrup baptism. was any one there with the camara? to record the history making day? it is all down hill from here. my first day with the r/o i was filling everything thing in site with syrup, every pail in the house and every sap bucket i could find. the next day i ran to bascoms traded an old vac pump for a 15 gallon draw off tank. good to see your having fun!!!
Yawn.... Hello everyone, I guess I forgot to set my alarm and overslept from winter LOL :) So the season starts !!! been so busy haven't been on the trader in eons... but.... I'm baaaack LOL Lets do this thing and make some SYRUP !!!!
Should be close to ready after this weekend, also in the process of building a cream machine...just figuring out my pulley sizes and such
Good Luck to Everyone!!
Great work Theron and supporting cast, Its great to know that sugar makers stick together lol. I can't wait for BIG SAP MARCH gmcooper.
Maybe Feb 18 should be Theron's day here on the trader?
Mapleman3, Good to see you back!!
Take a deep breath Theron, looks like weather is going to be cold for another week or so.
Got all 190 taps in on Friday and was greeted with 275 gallons of sap by yesterday afternoon! Looks like a good starter run to work the kinks out, let the games begin.
Congratulations TheROn on your successful first BIGSAP boil. You made more in one boil than I do in 1/2 a season.
BIGSAP MARCH would work in NH too. Hopefully we get a good start like TheROn and others have.
Russ