That's awesome...I wish it were that easy for me...the cliffs and ridges and steep hills and only few trees don't make er easy...but I love the work out!
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That's awesome...I wish it were that easy for me...the cliffs and ridges and steep hills and only few trees don't make er easy...but I love the work out!
With your cliffs and ridges would you ever consider or would it work to set up gravity lines? I'm on level ground so it's not going to work for me :(
I did set up 2 gravity 3/16 set ups this year...next year i will add more for sure
Got all 70 taps in and they are running pretty good today half buckets ( 3 gal ) and over all sugar content 2.5% and had a few road side at 3-4.5%!
100 taps in and lots of plunk plunk plunks into the buckets. I'll get another 50 taps put in tomorrow and hope to fire up the stove tomorrow night. We'll out to sharpen a few chain saws chains and get some dead elm trees cut up and piled beside the evaporator. Even if it does turn cold again I'll take this early start to the season with a big smile on my face.
Collected 30ish galleons of sap my one container smelled off so I'm not dumping the sap boiling it tonight then cleaning everything again before the next collection.
Nice haul! I was at about 125 litres this morn, had to adjust a few leakers...the evap is goin now ...not sure on these really warm days AND nights coming...my shifts are 24 hours so I didn't see it all shake down. Walnuts are giving but not much yet.
First draw with about 40 gallons ruin through my evaporator. Collected 145gal since yesterday and the temp is back at 217 again! Syrup tastes amazing!
awesome!... I have some trees giving and some not...i think they are waking up or in shock?
Ya so far trees in the bush are just rocking but they are smaller and protected from the wind unlike my sap cows on the road side.