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2020 here we come! Put in 89 taps today and another 10 to go tomorrow. Ran out of daylight and couldn't see last years tap holes. Spent the last week rebuilding my evaporator. The high heat we run it at has it eating itself up. They should run tomorrow and then shut down till Saturday so we should be boiling Wednesday. Good luck to all...
Good Luck Paul
Great run the last 2 days. Boiled today and will boil again tomorrow. Taps should run dry tonight and I don't think it is going below freezing tomorrow night so we should be down for a while.
I am curious when they run dry also. Not sure ground was completely thawed yesterday although it should thaw quickly today with a little rain. Not much frost as you know this year so the next freeze thaw cycle should really open them up next week.
Bottled up our first couple of boils today. Made Golden and Amber. This is the first time in years that we have made Golden. Had very little niter in the pan after 3 boils and the syrup went right through the filters. The least amount of niter I have ever seen in the filters. Almost 4 gallons thru the orlon and 2 prefilters and didn't have to remove any prefilters during the process. Why can't it always be this easy and fast? Sugar level in the sap has been right around 2%. I'm happy.
Taps have finally stopped running and we should get below freezing tonight but I don't think it will be low enough or long enough to recharge them. It was a hell of a run. I boiled the last 2 days and still have 71 gallons for tomorrow. 2.3 gallons per tap is great for us here.
Had a deep freeze and 2 warm days and sap is only trickling in. How is everyone else doing?
2/3 of our taps are dried up. 1/3 is on new tubing and started running pretty well after this last freeze. I think this'll be it, though.
We are still running good up in Susquehanna county but theses next few days are gonna hurt. 66 on Friday, wow!
One of our bushes is toast, never even went to stringy nasty sap just plain dried up. Other two including one on 3/16ths gravity is still running a few hours a day the last two days. Trying to make it to Saturday, time will tell