got 5 gallons from the 9 i put in yesterday around 1pm
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got 5 gallons from the 9 i put in yesterday around 1pm
Changed my mind.
Tapped everything on vacuum Friday, chased leaks yesterday.
Squirrels had gotten more than I feared; healthy winds didn’t make the job any easier.
Lines are all flushed, setting the releaser tank today and will start collecting.
Hoping to get in the first boil tomorrow. Plenty to get done today to make that happen.
Ice on the puddles this morning, I assume we went below freezing last night, but already 36* here at 8 A.M.
All 83 in Saturday, sap was dripping before the taps could get placed. Looks like an early year in Luther.
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First boil yesterday. Perfect day for it!
Tapped 13 more reds today. Decided to reuse some plastic taps from last year that we bleached and rinsed at the end of the season.
Collected 40 gallons today out of 20 taps (17 sugars, 1 red, 1 silver, and 2 Norways). This is sap that ran over the weekend. Boiled it down to 3-1/2 gallons this afternoon and put in refrigerator to finish some night this week after work. Got my new refractometer Saturday and checked Sugars were running 2-1/2 % and a bucket of the Silver/Red and Norways all mixed together was 2-1/2 % also which really suprised me. As a newbie, this was my 1st boil and everything went great. Clay in Almont, MI
I went all in Friday 2/19/16 40 deg. weather tapping 125 trees they are all on 3/16 gravity and most have 20-25 foot drop in elevation to the collection drums.
Collected this weekend close to 200 gallons sap and have to do the finish boil should end with a little over 2 gallons syrup. the sap was measuring with a hyd. 1.2 percent, low but I could not just dump it. February 19th 2015 it was 37 degrees below zero here.
Made 30 gals of syrup since Friday. Weather says were done for a while
Yesterday we gathered 65 gallons of sap off 30 taps, but started cooking around 2pm. Will finish off the syrup today and start tapping more trees this week. Outside of Cass City.
We tapped Feb. 17th, and we've collected 54 gallons of sap.