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I got 36 trees tapped today. Will tap a few more tomorrow AM. Sap was dripping as fast as I've seen it from my best early tree. Bucket was 2" from the top at the end of the day- 2.5 gallon bucket. Cold tonight and hopefully more flow tomorrow. I'm Thinking Tuesday will be a boil day as well. MRFNY, would love to have you over this season!
Pete
Tapped most of my trees yesterday, around 40 taps I think (really should count them). Trees were flowing well, set the main line into the storage container about 3pm and collected about 15 gallons before they shut off. Things should really flow today.
My better half works from home so she was checking buckets today. Had some overflowing and many others about an inch from the top. Good but not good from a storage and long nights after work boiling point of view. lol
We emptied buckets this morning. 30 gallons from the 36 taps put in yesterday. I added another 13 taps this morning. Up to 49 now. Was hoping my 10yo would tap a couple more with me (he's missed all the tapping this year), but he said I should tap another without him to get to 50.
Looks like another good day today. Tonight is not supposed to get below freezing. It will be interesting to see if it runs through the night and what we get tomorrow.
Pete
Crazy night tonight! Collected 148 gallons and probably had another 30 or so in buckets on the remaining trees that weren't in danger of overflowing. We did have quite a few buckets spilling over today! Boiled around 60 gallons and called it a night. I think we're getting a freeze tonight so tomorrow could bring another decent run, then it looks like we'll have a few days to catch up on boiling. Our pan will be sugared by tomorrow!
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I had an overflowing storage can when I got home from work yesterday and almost filled another can (32 gallons each) overnight and it was still running this morning.
Nice! The IBC tote I plumbed into our new 3/16 lines was 1/3 full this morning when I checked and I would imagine will fill up by week's end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevor5
Is this late March? lol. Man this has been crazy. We're battling to maintain some storage space for the next day's collection. Had to leave a lot in the buckets tonight, emptied the ones that were half full or more to prevent possible overflow again tomorrow. Pan is pretty much sugared already and should be doing the first draw-off of 2023 on 2/15!
I ended up tapping my two tubing runs Thursday night 2/9, a total of 45 taps on 5/16 gravity. I boiled 60 gallons Saturday, 70 gallons Monday, and 50 gallons Tuesday. So far i have bottled 3.25 gallons of Amber syrup (69-72% transmissivity). Only had a few hours of below freezing temps last night between 7pm-midnight, so not sure if i am going to get much sap to boil today. Its looking like things will be too warm until we get a solid freeze again Friday night and then hopefully Saturday, Sunday, Monday will be good flow days. Based on past experience I probably have about 1 gallon of syrup "trapped" in my continuous flow pans so that jives with the 180 gallons ive collected being at around that 40:1 2% sugar content. Ive never invested in a sap hydrometer, should probably do so one of these days.
Pic of my oil tank evaporator and sap hauler: Attachment 22881
Very nice, love the side by side and the update on sapping...we have almost the same about of sap in our main IBC tote and will be tapping our remaining 3/16 runs along with 50 buckets this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Heldeberg Sapper