Just got home from boiling, got 520 gal of sap today.
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Just got home from boiling, got 520 gal of sap today.
I finished Tapping tonite. just slightly over 3000 taps. 1200 an some odd buckets. had a valve leaking on my expansion tubing. pump 300gal out of the tank and fixed it. worked in the sugar house trying to get that in order. the went out and pumped a tank to keep it from running over in the middle of the night. and that was the second shift.
Sap ran pretty good here yesterday and last night even with some south wind. Looks like Ive gotten over this run this week about 4000 gallons or maybe a little more up till now. I had to go out in the middle of the night too, around 3 am to pump out some tanks. I think it may run pretty long and hard today with the rain. Yesterday I took all afternoon into the night going through the woods fixing leaks. Fixed a lot of squirrell chews and found 4 drops off. Dont have too much more left. Started yesterday during the day with 20 at the sugarhouse releaser and 18 across the road. Some of it was the pump being a little warm and the sap running hard. Now with everything running Im holding 25 at the sugarhouse releaser and 24 across the road. Im very happy about that. I like to keep the woods perfect but with everything involved and having to go to work its hard. Hope everyone gets a good run today. Dave- Will the buckets be full tomarrow? Theron
Theron,
This doesn't apeer to be a great run. time will tell last nite a couple buckets in the yard was close to over flowing, while some only had acouple of inches. I will be very pleased to start with 3000gal tomorrow morning. that way I will have all weekend to boil. The tanks are runnind well so I assume it will play out to be a decent run.
Dave- I think your going to get the sap. This wasnt a perfect run for sure I dont think. Too much of the south plus things are kind of waking up I think after that really cold spell we had. I think you may hit it big today with the rain plus today the winds going to change to the west. I hope you get it becouse like you said going into the weekend is perfect timing. Theron
You guy are killing me....
Minus 2 last night, 6" of fresh snow, high today of maybe 10, maybe 14 tomorrow.
On the bright side I got laterals out to another 80 trees this morning...boy the tubing is tough to work with when it is this cold...
Finished boiling for the day around 3pm. The good news is I was able to get the evap to do about 550 gph. I found a direct relation between stack temp and gph. @ 600 degrees I was pushing 600gph, at 300 degrees I was lucky to do 300 gph. Good info collected today firing the evap. The bad news is the sugar content. 1.5 % at best. What gives. Any one else with low sugar?
I collected 160 gal on 200 taps tonight. Pumped it into sugarhouse feed tank. Will test sugar in am before I start boiling. My woods don't seem to have woke up much yet. This 200 is all new, all gravity. It is ready to go vac as soon as I get an RO. I am still only about 400 tapped, Only the 200 ran. Will tap my last 200 this weekend. Was looking to get 800 but only hit 602 for this year. That is still a 20% gain from last year.
We collected 1000 gallons last evening and this afternoon before the blizzard set in.. goingto get the RO and the rig fired up tomorrow morning. Would of had more but one generator shut down on low oil level. Better that than to burn up the gen. all sap is at 2%
We have only just begun,Say that would make a great title for a song!!
Jim
Holy Cow! That is all I can say.
Man did the sap flow last night and today. I now have right at 100gals of sap waiting to boiled tomorrow. I wanted to get started this evening but the wife got the flu this week and I have to take care of the daughter.
I had several buckets overflowing for who knows how long! They were still running when I collected so I have to figure I will have a good bit to get tomorrow. But I am beat.
Dave Y I just can't imagine you doing all those buckets, my 140 was enough.
A guy from the local newspaper managed to search me down and stopped by yesterday to take a few pics of me collecting the sap and then a few pics while I was boiling. He asked a bunch of questions. It was fun talking syrup. If it makes it in the paper in will be this coming weeks edition.