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We made an additional 92 gallons yesterday afternoon and at 11:00pm my brother went up to start the RO to make some room for the incoming sap. We should have a good day today, need to collect the buckets in the morning and then fire up the evaporator again.
In the last 24 hours I have gotten 10,500 gallon of sap. The bad part is the sugar is only 1.3%. I too was hoping for better sugar because of the freeze we just had. The sap is making Medium amber and the flavor is great. Sap still running at 225 GPH this morning and it should run all day at a slower pace then yesterday. Weather man is saying 34 degrees for later tonight and I hope he is a little off and we get colder. If we can hold out till next Tuesday we could get some big runs again.
Jeremy, I measured my dumps from both releasers so I can keep track of GPH. This way I can let the sap driver know ahead of time when I should expect another load.I hope your having a great season.
Spud
Spud,
We have a new producer down are way, he has the biggest double horizontals that Leader sales, do you have any idea how much sap dumps each time, he was guessing 20 to 25 gallon? my guess is probably more like 15 gallon, he told me on his best day he was getting 3200 gallons an hour? He has two releasers that size, one was dumping every 30 seconds. The other with less taps around a minute.
Just thought you might know?
Mark 220 Maple
Boiled last night made 3 to 4 gal of dark robust with a hint of flowery taste. Processed another 425 going really hard through RO can only go from 2.2 to 4.2 o e pass then only to 5 second pass.Sap getting cloudy bit stStoll making syrup have to be right around 100 gal need more containers
Mark,Quote:
Originally Posted by 220 maple
Go to ask.com or goggle and give them the measurements of the cylinder and they will tell you how much fluid per inch. Then you just need to know how many inches the sap goes up the cylinder before it dumps.
Spud
I got another 4000 gallons today and it might stay running all night. The weather man is saying 34 degrees tonight but I hope it gets colder then that. The sugar today was 1.3%. I jugged up Med syrup last night and the flavor is excellent. I hope for another 10-12 days. One of my fall tapping trees gave me a gallon yesterday and over a quart today. The one tree is testing at 4% and the other tested today at 3.4%. I wish my whole woods was like that. These trees were tapped November 1st.
Spud
Made another 7 gal. of Amber Rich today. Getting close to Dark Robust and will likely get there tomorrow with 60+ temps. Sap is still coming in though it has slowed down. Probably pulled in another 1 gpt in the last 24 hours. Sugar at 1.3 but I can't imagine it will stay there much longer. Was just up in Shelburne and I saw several silver maples that were budding. My reds are still producing sap so may get through the weekend but with near 80 forecasted for monday...its not looking good for going much longer here in Bristol.
Got 6000 gallons of sap today. It might be a small freeze tonight. Or maybe it will be a fake freeze for tomorow. At 1600 gallons made so far. Making a really good b right now. Almost got it back to a dark amber today.
Sealed drum #60 tonight. Sap has almost stopped, though the pumps are still on. Looks like 3-4 nights in the 20's next week, let's hope the weather man is wrong about the high temps for sat and sun. Color lightened back up to Amber Rich today with great flavor. Most incoming sap today was 1.8-2.0. Last year we boiled 22 times, tomorrow will be #21 for this season.
Syrup2nv, 2400 gallons on 3400 taps or do you buy sap too?