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well, the good news is the vendor is willing to ship me a new pan...thought I was going to have a fight on my hands....
Sam. I'll get in touch with you early next week about a pickup... I have to go to maine tomorrow and then have a ton of sap to boil on sunday....
Ric
Sap has been slow since Monday. Still had about 120 gallons af sap to boil today. I ran out of pallets before I ran out of sap, but got a solid 2 gallons of syrup out of the 90 or so gallons I boiled. The new arch is not perfect, but probably runs about 12-15 GPH with flat pans.
Sam
It looks liek we had a little run yesterday, but things have been slow overall for about a week. Is anyone seeing some decent runs?
First batch came out nice and I am anxious to get some more sap in the tanks for another boil. If it ios fast and furious I will boil midweek. If it takes all week to get 150 gallons of sap I will wait unill Sunday.
Sam
sam, I drew a few gallons yesterday, so the rate has slowed way down with the weather....the weekend long range forecast looks better
ric
I tapped 10 more trees yetsreday to bring me up to 32 taps. Some of these trees were is a swampy area that always runs early. They were dripping right away from the time I placed the taps. Collected about 20 gallons of sap from the existing taps. Finished the day by filtering and bottling the syrup from Sunday's boil. I missed the two gallon mark by one 1/2 pint jar.
All in all not a bad few hours of sugaring.
sam
I can't tell if I have a run today, my buckets are under 14 inches of snow :lol:
I would go and check them. I checked a few on the way in the door and they were half full or more. Tomorrow is going to be a big run and Sunday should be a 100 gallon plus boil. I haven't checked sugar yet, but if it holds up I could be looking at 5 gallons finished by Sunday afternoon. That would be pretty cool for 30 taps and my new home brew arch.
Sam
Now I'm tired. Just broke trail to all my taps through a solid foot of snow. Then I buried my sap tanks in a huge pile of snow that should last through at least a week of warmish temps. I'm thinking that wrapping them in a reflective blanket might also be a good idea.
Sam
are anyone's trees budding?
I haven't seen any buds yet, but I also have not looked.
Boiled off about 90 or so gallons yesterday and have about 2 more gallons ready to be filtered and bottled.
sam