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I’m back after taking a year off in 2023. I completely finished cleanup in 2022 and couldn’t face it last year, but I’m all set now and no worse for the wear. I’ll eventually have 125 taps I thinking having list 75 that were on town school property and our town manager objected although the schools were on board and thought it was pretty kool. Picking my battles. I hung 20 buckets and got 20 gallons yesterday. Should be same or more today and tomorrow so my first boil will be tonite or Friday. Looks like we cool down next Tuesday for 10 days, so I’ll get my tubing up in the meantime. I’ll have to see whether I need to finish off the early syrup and sweet in the pans in the interim, or try to leave it til we warm back up again. What do you think - can I leave it in pans 10 days if temps stay below 34?
Oh, and with downsizing I decided to go back to flat filtering, and as a result I have an almost new, 1-season old Smokey Lake stainless Steel filter press for sale, with hoses, clamps, papers, and DE. Sale price new at SL is $1,400 plus tax. It’s in the classifieds for $1,000 obo. It has the manual pump but can upgrade to air diaphragm.
Well, we have a good week coming up after an easy pace yesterday and today I’m getting .5-.75 gallon / tap / day, and expect we’ll get some 1-2 gal/tap Monday Tuesday. But a week out is starting to look like the end - after march 2 I don’t see any chill in the forecast. Of course they could be wrong.