cdl they have a small hole in the molding. found more this am arrrh.
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cdl they have a small hole in the molding. found more this am arrrh.
:lol: Weve been getting an awefull lot of sap here last two days. Day before yesterday it was coming just off my hill faster than the R.O. could get rid of it which is over 300 gallons per hour. Im about 3000 gallons behind right now. Its in one section of the semi trailer. If I didnt have the trailer that 3000 would be on the ground no question. I just keep working up a batch and then cleaning the R.O. and repeat. Im actually getting a lot of things plumbed up better with the pumps and thats nice. Just trying to keep up and we are, Hope everyong is getting CRAZY, INSANE, BUCKETBLASTIN SAP!!! If you guys up north arent you should be soon. Theron
Sap Sunday just started to flow like it wants to show me what is got. If the weather forcast is correct I can expect sap like yesterday for the next two weeks. I haven't got enough to boil yet but if today and tuesday is as good as sunday I am boiling wensday as I can not let it get to far ahead of me. Things are goingto get intresting to say the least.
The BIGSAP started to show up finally. Best day Sunday in years. Finally got the vacuum system up to par. Running at 25" and holding! Replaced my CDL releaser with a new Laperier unit. Gained 4" vacuum with just that change. The old unit certainly had more leaks than I thought.
Now i've got to keep up with the sap. Already have a tank full at the woods and still have a few hundred gallons at home at the sugar house.
Theron hows it feel to get the big sap??? Nothing bettter than getting swamped!
Mark
Question for all of you.
What is the relationship between frost in the ground and BIG SAP.
Tell us if you have frost and if you are into BIG SAP
We have had sap running a bit for about a week, no big days yet. We still have frost in the ground though, and snow in the woods. Today it will get to 60, and stay above freezing for about 72 hours. That might do in the frost here.
Jeff, From my experience, frost plays a BIG role. We won't get any BIGSAP until that frost is nearly gone. I have a neighbor who does 1600 bags and he has a gently sloping north woods. I talked to him this morning and is holding off on tapping for a few more days, he says with no freezing at night and 60's, they'll just dry up early. Have you checked out the 2 week ? Weather doesn't bode well for a good year.
The old timers here figure that a year with too many thaws in the ealy months of winter affects the sap when this time of year comes around. They figure a good hard winter then spring is the best to have. Last winter it thawed once a week here and the harvest sucked so could be true.
Jeff,
We've still got frost in the ground here in the open and in the woods. Still have a good amount of snow. 18" in the woods 12" in the fields but we have some bare ground in the sunny and windswept locations. Our worst seasons since 1989 have been the years with 36"+ frost (took forever to thaw) and the years with no frost. Providing there were decent days weather wise for sap to run.
Once the frost is gone and the snow is gone we seem to end fairly quickly most years.
Just my opinion
Mark
plenty of frost in the ground here also and the sap is flowing at about a gallon a tap here. 150 gallons from 160 taps and no vac. I would say that is good for us here.
The trees out in the open seem to do the best. I have one tree starts up first and then the others follow. need to get rid of the snow around the trees in the woods to getthem moving.