Collected around 275 last Wed and then around 425 on Sat. Boiled off most of it Sat and left the rest for tommorrow along with the aprox 500 gallons I collected today.
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Collected around 275 last Wed and then around 425 on Sat. Boiled off most of it Sat and left the rest for tommorrow along with the aprox 500 gallons I collected today.
Brandon
How much have you made and whats the grade?
I'm hoping to season my pans this week
Keith
No post for a couple of days from WVM....Must be the sap is pouring in.
Not sure what the grade is, I just boil and store and can and grade later. Most of it seems light or med, but it don't really matter too much. Nearly everyone wants dark here, so grades don't matter too much to me. I would like to make 85% dark, 5% light and 10% B and that would satisfy everyone. Go figure.
Gathered around 500 gallon Monday that had ran from dark Sat evening and gathered another 550 gallon this evening that had ran since Monday evening. Hope to start gathering around 12 or 1 tommorrow and hopefully get another 500 or so gallons. Supposed to start raining tommorrow, so things will likely start slowing down. Sugar content was 2.4 monday which is the highest I have ever seen to around 1.5 to 1.6 today.
Shooting for another 1000 gallon of sap this week which would put me around 2000+ for the week. It was pouring this evening at dark and hopefully a small freeze tonight.
Rain for two days and then cold Sat and Sunday and gradual warmup after that. I would like to be at 50 gallon syrup by Sat evening which would be in 8 days of which I will have only boiled 5 of the 8 and then I can hopefully coast after that.
You go Brother!! He He!!
Brandon
Sounds good
Keith
Brandon sounds like you got the weather and were ready. We just haven't gotten good weather yet! 50 Gallons is great!
Sugarmaker
Sounds like all your hard work is paying off,,madey the sugar content will hold out for you this year!
Well, sap was pouring Wed at dark about as hard as I have ever saw it run and then the temp dropped from 45 to 25 in less than 2 hours. Later in the night it warmed back up and started raining the next day, but the sap never started again. Sure is strange the way it acts sometimes. It had frozen the prior 3 or 4 nights and then the rain comes, and it refuses to run. Ended up with close to 1400 gallons of sap for the week and finished off 29.5 gallons of syrup that was mostly med and some dark. Drew off a few gallons yesterday that haven't been finished. Weather looks good for this coming week. It was in teens last night, again tonight and tommorrow night and a gradual warmup and no freezing after thurs as far as 10 day shows. I am hoping to get 1500 gallon or more of sap this week as it could end this weekend. Usually it will go 1 more week past this week and 2 more weeks every few years, but the long range is warmer.
Sap was pouring again today. It has been cold at night for several days and warmed up close to 50 today with lots of sun and man did it pour. I picked up 625 gallons that had ran since Monday with most of it today and it was still pouring when I left before dark. Hope to start boiling around 5 tommorrow morning and then my help is coming around 9 so I can go to work and then head back over to the sugarhouse around 2 or so to collect tommorrow. Looks good thru Sat and then 55 to 60 every day thru next weekend. Either way, if the sap keeps running like this until Sat, we could get 1500 to 2000 gallon of sap this week and it would make it a good season. I was kinda tired before the season started, so if it ends this week, it will have been 2 good weeks back to back and a pretty good season for 3 weeks.