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With what's bottled - and what I have left to boil off today - I've should have about 9 gallons by day's end. But got to say, that sap this year is some of the clearest I've seen with sugar holding steady the mid 2's.
Overall YTD we are about 1/2 of what we had last year and pretty close to a "normal year", whatever that may be.
heus, curious as to what your sugar% has been. I have 350 buckets that have been at 3% and the 650 on tubing is at 2% go figure. The only difference is you have vac. mines all gravity and you have made 100 gal. more than I have. Last nite started making "B" after it had lightened up to med. Pretty sure this season is finished after this week with temps going into the 60's after this weekend. Anyway was just curious about your totals thinking how much of a difference vac. must make.
As of today I have made 10 1/2 gal , all dark amber
Mapleguy there is no comparison between vac and buckets, at least for me. If I had to rely on my 190 sap saks I would have made about 9-10 gallons. When I did gravity tubing it ran even less than my buckets. Been running at 23-26" of vac all season. Vacuum has turned what would have been a poor season for me into a decent one. My sugar content stinks by the way. Have averaged around 1.7% I think we have a couple of weeks left the ground is still frozen in some parts of my woods. Last year we made good syrup until April 6th I think we will go at least that long.
Northeast Ohio guys, I found a pic on ebay I thought some of you might appreciate. The pic was taken in 1943 at Fowlers mill. It was taken for an article in a newspaper from New York there are some cliff notes on the back. I though it was pretty cool so I bought it. Some how it made it down to Arkansas I had to bring it home. Attachment 9493Attachment 9494
Thanks. Just finished boiling off today's run and saw this.
That's a very neat old photo
Nice run yesterday about 2.5 gallons per tap on vac. Squirrels have decimated my tap count, however. 80% of our bags were destroyed in two days. I had already replaced most of them and replaced alot more yesterday. The trick of taping the bottom with duct tape to discourage chewing does not work. Fortunately they have pretty much left my tubing alone. No bags for me next year except for some yard trees. We are at 209 approximate gallons right now and hope to surpass last years total of 248.5 (although we have 200 more taps than last year)
Jason, that's some great production in these trying times. I might have to sneak over and see how your doing it! Hows the RO?
Gary I love it. Can't see how I lived without it. How's the evaporator running? Mine has done real well the past two seasons. It's made over 450 gal so far in that time.
Great run the last few days. Sap holding at 2.4 . The last run started slow but really got going yesterday. Finished off today as the snow began, up to 102 gal. and should make near last years of 140. I like to sugar with snow on the ground. Still making medium. The late season is turning out better than I thought three week ago.