Nothing wrong with good production! If you get beat and half to shut down, commercial will probably be pretty close in price this year. Make all you can Brandon!
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Nothing wrong with good production! If you get beat and half to shut down, commercial will probably be pretty close in price this year. Make all you can Brandon!
Picked up another aprox 530 gallons today and sap still running good. Supposed to get to about 24 tonight and then 46 tommorrow. After tommorrow, it is supposed to be 55 to 65 every day thru next weekend with above freezing at night also, so it will likely be over. Hopefully I can get another 770 gallons of sap between this evening and Sat night and that would put me at 4000 for the season and aprox 75 gallons of syrup, so I would be happy especially in less than 3 weeks.
Brandon,,Good luck and keep after it!! When you are all cleaned up come on up and Ill put you to work!! You can make a bunch more up here!!!
Picked up aprox 425 more gallons this evening and sap still running fairly good but slowing down some. Hope it will continue to run thru tommorrow evening and get another 300 to 400 gallons tommorrow and then I will sanitize all the tanks in the woods and buckets as I did last Sat and pull the lines out of the tanks and the buckets this time and let it dribble on the ground. Supposed to get cold next Friday and Sat, so hopefully it will fire it up again and will let what little bit runs after tommorrow night run onto the ground until the next cold spell. Hopefully this warm weather won't kill it, I still have enough wood for another 1200 to 1500 gallons of sap after tommorrow, but if it ends tommorrow, I should be close to 4,000 gallons of sap in just over 2.5 weeks on 500 taps!
Boiled off aprox 675 gallons today with my dad boiling off the majority of it and about 250 in milk tank to fire up with in the morning.
That sounds like the best runs you have had scince I have been reading your posts 4? years.......How many gallons have you made,,what has been the grade,,what is the sugar content like?
Finished boiling off close to 600 gallon more yesterday that ran Fri and Sat. Sap pretty much stopped running by yesterday evening, so I pulled all the lines out of the tanks and sanitized all the tanks and buckets. Hoping for another cold spurt this coming week, but awful warm between now and then. It has only been 3 weeks since I tapped, so hopefully the holes won't dry up before it gets cold again if it does. It is getting late in the season here as it normally ends around the 15 to 20th of March. So far, I have boiled off 3,960 gallons of sap in the last 15 days with a 2x8 and only boiling 7 times, with close to 3,300 of it coming in the last 2 weeks which is a lot of sap for a 2 week period for 500 taps. I would guess I am somewhere around 70 gallons of syrup as the sugar has been low again this year. Be nice to get another 800 to 1000 gallons of sap to finish off the year as I need as much dark syrup and B as possible.
Everything is cleaned and sanitized except evaporator, so we'll wait and see. If it doesn't happen, then that is fine as it has been a pretty good year. I have about 200 more taps than I need, but since vaccum is not practical for me with taps scattered in 3 different locations, I added more taps to compensation.
It appears that most of the syrup has been med and dark. I had some light, but when I reheated and canned, I just dumped it all together as most people here don't want any light. Should know a better total when I can later this week as I have only canned 29.5 gallons so far.
Hammer on Brandon, hammer on.
Made a quart and a half for the first boil this afternoon, had 45 gallons of sap.
Made nice tasting medium.
Hopefully you will get that last run.
Keep making syrup!!!!!
Dave
Boiled off around 210 gallon of sap on Wed and bottled everything that I hadn't bottled last night which amounted to 46.5 more gallons and gave me 76 gallons for the year. Hoping for another run the first of next week if most of the holes haven't dried up from all the warm weather over the past week. Might get to 90 gallons or more if we get a decent run.
Either way, if we don't get any more sap, I am happy. I have made 76 gallons off of 4170 gallon of sap and there is probably 2 more gallons in the evaporator because it didn't look good about 4 weeks ago.
It got down to low 20's on Fri night and never got out of 20's on Sat and down to 15 Sat night and again last night and never got above freezing yesterday and into the 50's today, but no sap. Guess all the warm weather has about dried up the holes. I was really suprised as it will be 4 weeks tommorrow since I tapped the north bush and I expected for it to run some more sap since it had frost in the ground until about a week ago.
Sap was dribbling a little, so I will let it dribble until Wed and then pull lines out of the tanks as it is over as no more freezing in sight and 50's and 60's. Checked holes in several different locations and they all looked nice and clean and wet, so I am really suprised it has quit. It is the normal end of the season here, it just started a week+ late, but it was good while it lasted for 2.5 weeks.
Picked up 370 gallons this evening and hope to be able to make some B. Sap quality is still pretty good and hope to get about that much more again tommorrow and that will be it and will pull the lines out of tanks as it will probably be about finished running by tommorrow evening.