had over 6,000 gallons come in by this afternoon, still running, should be a good day tomorrow. Temps down into the mid 20s this morning, should be the same tonight.
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had over 6,000 gallons come in by this afternoon, still running, should be a good day tomorrow. Temps down into the mid 20s this morning, should be the same tonight.
Pulled in about 1400 gal. around 2% in the last 30 hours. Boiled 300 last night and another 400 tonight. Made about 17 gallons and up to about 55 for season. Sap is still running and at least I have some room in the tanks now. Came very close to overflowing this afternoon as I had to work today and couldn't boil til almost 5.
Supposed to freeze tonight and I hope it does. Hope to get caught up tomorrow. The season is finally here.
13000 gal of sap. Made 260gal of Medium. RO'ing as I type for the morning.
I only got 3300 gallons yesterday but we froze good last night. I hope today will bring more. Testing 2%
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I've had a good friend boiling for me the last 2 nights. He doesn't understand all the technology that we have, but enjoys boiling the 25% sap I put into the rig! Does my heart good to see his smile and his eyes light up while running the rig. I learned a lot about the maple gig many years ago from him, and love having the chance to give a little back to him. He so looks forward to coming out each year for this. Many Thanks Eddie!! Hope he can come out and play a few more days this year.
Sap slowed down a little yesterday, but we still had a good run---made 45 gallons of Amber Rich syrup last night.
Yesterday stunk for me as the overnight low was only 36 trees did not reset. When I left there this morning to come to work for a few hours it was 30 I hope that was enough for a recharge. April first was great day thou
Tuesday and Wednesday I boiled about 150 gallons of sap and finally got my first draws, about 2 1/2 gallons of near syrup for finishing.
Northfield, VT
2013 6 buckets, 6 sap sacks, concrete block fire pit in the woods and 20 gallon agway galvanized watering pan for boiling, produced 2 gallons of 'campfire' grade, Kubota L3200 for woods work
2014 2x4 WSE evaporator, 20x30 barn/sugar house, 116 taps on gravity tubing, 3 buckets, 6 sapsacks
I've had a good friend boiling for me the last 2 nights. He doesn't understand all the technology that we have, but enjoys boiling the 25% sap I put into the rig! Does my heart good to see his smile and his eyes light up while running the rig. I learned a lot about the maple gig many years ago from him, and love having the chance to give a little back to him. He so looks forward to coming out each year for this. Many Thanks Eddie!! Hope he can come out and play a few more days this year.
Sap slowed down a little yesterday, but we still had a good run---made 45 gallons of Amber Rich syrup last night.
Mplrwks, That "old friend" talks about going out to help you all year long, He always brings it up about how much fun it is to see your rig boiling that high octane sap... he says, all you do is flip the switch and start drawing syrup, just amazing ! It really is something he loves to do, thanks for having him out to get his fix of maple every year.
Am I allowed to come to your sugar house mike?:-D I promise not to say anything about the secret stuff going on
Made 4 more barrells today.That puts me at 770 gallons made so far. I have had about 100 taps i had to pull in the last few days because they dried up. But the weather looks really good coming up.