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I tried the rice trick in my releaser. I was able to get it to stick just moving it by hand in my kitchen. Added a 14oz box of rice to the float and no more sticking. Brought it down to the woods, turned on the vacuum, tapped some trees and watched as it filled and dumped. No sticking there either. Bring on the BIGSAP I am ready.
theron how close to corning and addison ny are u
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Well the Pa.Dept. of Ag was in our sugar house yesterday and inspected our operation. We passed with flying colors. Now all we need is some sap!!!
Hope the next couple of days get things rolling!
Jim
Got my check from Grove today and they graded my syrup. All 5 drums were graded C. I asked Jerry when he was down here what he thought the grade was and he said Pennsylvania Fancy. Sounds like I must be doing things right. Four dollars a pound they must have loved the stuff. Gonna try to keep up the good work. dont want to lose the grade. Theron
It is refreshing to see you finally try to make some quality product. I mean quantity product.
every 4.00/lb helps.
arrrrgh...the pirate is jealous of the earlier Pa season start. Seems like the northeners are chomping at the bit again.
Looks like all hell ought to break loose starting tomorrow. A swimming we will go, a swimming we will go....bring on the sap!
Grade C ! Come on Theron, there are high standards in PA. Maybe you shouldn't listen to the "northerner's";) Glad to see you making some money though.
Look's like the tree's will wake back up tomorrow. Looking to make some fine quality product.
Still tapping! 187 more buckets tonite. got a late start. sap was dripping and it was 25degs. another 200 and I should be done. Tap count so far is 2772. I may not make 3000. a fella that told me he i could tap his tree backed out yesterday. probably 250 taps. Oh well.
Talked to Tappin and sappin tonight comparing notes. He was dumping Ice and I was just heading out to dump mine. I must have dumped 300 gallons of ice on the gorund:( That last run must have continued as the snow came in and most of the totes had 5-15 gallon. Well the big ice chunks just do not work well with the pumping system so it had to go.
Jim Brown, Glad the inspector was pleased always nice to get a good report from the inspectors. I need to call and let them know we are making syrup too.
Have the water sample in but the results are do in a few days. Did get the results from the syrup sample back and they results looked good. So we are anticipating a run starting late Wed night and into Friday.
Gary, Get some rest its coming!
Jim Bortles did you get those taps in? Your rig looks ready to go.
Chris
Peace- Im really close to Corning and that area. Probly 35 or 40 minutes is all. Sounds like everybody made dark syrup on this early stuff around here for some reason. Richard said it had something to do with the weather. Staying home today and tying up some loose ends around here and getting ready to make a bunch more product hopefully. Everything is a mess. Gonnna clean the shed and finetune my pressing. Hook up the tanker trailer to the new tub in the shed. Run some main. Pump out a froze tank. All the fun stuff. I think the big run will be tomarrow and Ill be ready. Wanna fill some barrells. Dave Y- full buckets by saturday better get ready to fire up that rig. Brandon- Talked to a guy does maple over by Richards. He was hooking up a big vac pump. Guy has 8000 taps on a steep ridge and he told me that he never ran vac becouse you could go up on top of the ridge with the sap running and put a spile on your cheek and it would stick there becouse of the nat vac off that hill. Other funny thing was he said It would freeze the mains down low and so many taps would be running up above that it would go to to freeze and blow out the saddles and guyser everywhere. Real nice guy. Hes putting a 150 cfm pump on it now so Probly really stick to his cheek. Theron