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The sun is getting stronger and even on cold days there are bare spots on hillsides showing up, time to find the cordless drill batteries and get them charged. Just think of all the savings of not having any snowmobile repairs this season 😃. Good luck with your season.
Yup it has been a weird winter.. no tapping in the 2 week forecastwhich gives me time to prep. Hopefully I avg same sugar as last two years! Good luck with your up coming season!
Agree, last season the sugar % was fantastic we were running in the high 2% most days , well until the sap hydrometer fell and exploded into a handful of pieces 😂. With these extra few week I’m hoping to put together all my amazon parts and build my small ro unit, what could go wrong bahahah
What do you figure your small RO build will cost? I'd like to implement one at some point to increase my taps without increasing much time.
I’ve got just shy of $500 in parts all ordered off amazon the membranes are the largest expense of the build.
I sat down today and got the ro unit all built , I ended up with a bunch of extra unneeded fittings and tubing.
Basic parts list
High pressure pump ( I used a 12 dc diaphragm pump rated for 5 l per minute 130 psi
3 - 400 gpd membranes with housing
1 - 1/4 line kit with push lock fittings
1- 3/8 line kit with push lock fittings
1 - pressure gauge ( push lock fittings)
1- brass needle valve
Cool I've been looking around trying to find the parts for a decent price. I'd be interested to hear how yours works and what your concentrate rate and % will be.
I’ll let you know the outcome good bad or ugly, just need some warmer temps to get are season underway
The last term forecast looks promising but I don't know I'll check weather on Saturday again I'm getting itchy to tap.
Heard today that a guy in the Cambridge area with 50,000 taps is all done tapping.
Got my supplies today. Got a few more trees to cut and a couple mainlines to repair and then I'll start tapping next week. Swamps and waterholes in the trails are still not safe to walk on yet. They may never be this winter. Friday is going to be real winter, but only for 1 day. The 2 week forecast is all just above freezing temperatures. Usually when you look at that, it just gives you I figured, the average highs and lows for that time of year. Now it's changed and making me wonder.
Had some branches break off a 3" Maple tree from dropping a big ash tree on Saturday. The buds on it were huge.
This "winter" has been so weird. I'm think I'll probably tap next week. I've heard of ppl already making syrup in areas around London. I'm just afraid of tapping and everything freezing up hard, but with this winter I doubt it.