Only mys econd year doing this and I will only have around 20 taps. I started early, the weather looks pretty good here and the trees have been really running. More importantly I have twins due in April, so my season will be short!
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Only mys econd year doing this and I will only have around 20 taps. I started early, the weather looks pretty good here and the trees have been really running. More importantly I have twins due in April, so my season will be short!
well i boiled off 10 gallons today
made a quart still finishing it right now
That sounds more like a smile.
PATheron, thats a nice set up ya got. i have been following the different posts on the the site for the past couple weeks and checking out everyones pics of there operations and after seeing yours i realized your located right over the hill! I will have to stop over cause it sounds like you got quite the set up this year.
Collected about 30 gallons today from 13 buckets, bringing me up to about 40. We'll boil down tomorrow and be able to enjoy our own syrup again. I anticipate this short run will give another 20-30 gallons before the freeze jits again, so this is a good chance to test out wht we're working with.
To the traders in upstate NY,central Vertmont and New Hampshire we are sending you some nice wet snow from Michigan. Enjoy!!! It only took 2 hrs to go 30 miles tonite 10mph all the way thru town normally a 30min trip. and we got all of 10 inches today. Its going to be a long day on the ole M tomorow plowing eveyone out. Just drive safely tomorrow. Sap will be coming someday.
I been working on a small pipeline this week. I will have 80 taps run out to the street. And i do mean street, it is only 800 yds from the center of the village,on the main drag. Put up over 800 ft of 3/4'" and set a nice 150 milk tank 10 ft off the side walk. I hope to put the manifolds on tomorrow after work and the drops Friday evening. The last three years we carried the sap out to the road in 5gal pail at this location. Now jut pull up with the sap hauler and load the sap. More time to boil. No good sap weather in the 15 day forecast, I will probably hold off tapping until after the full moon.
I was at Bascoms yesterday afternoon,,,was surprised to see they had started tapping,,,the tank at the bottom of their road had a few hundred gallons in it,,was real surprised to see how well it was running with the temp just 34 deg.,,vacuum is a real plus on poor days............
Parker; I have to agree we would not have had NEAR the sap over the last two days with out the vac. When we turn the vac off to fuel the pumps the flow would stop. We kept it off for about 15 minutes to see if the sap would flow natural into the releaser and no luck! we turn the vac on and was pulling about 300 gallons in 7 hours with 17" vac.(350 taps) Made a believer out of us for sure
Jim
J.B.- you are believer now, but if you were to add 6 more inches of vacuum to that system you wouldn't believe the difference you were seeing.