Well Brent it will come soon mother nature is just giving you some time!
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Well Brent it will come soon mother nature is just giving you some time!
Well I can't boil yet. Not enough sap and the new evap isn't ready yet.
But on say 120 taps
today: 70 gallons
yesterday maybe 30
getting close to minimum boil start..... gotta get the stack up.
tested at 3%
unless we get a gusher tomorrow, I'll put off trying the RO for a bit.
Looks like 4 or 5 more good days then cold again.
Well Brent we are all tapped up here in northern ontario. All 350 taps in, we started at 11 am and finished at 2:30 this afternoon. The sap was starting to run, roughly 5 gallons of sap in the buckets and a gallon on gravity feed. Thanks for the reply on the pm yesterday. If things run well I'll be a busy person this year.
If things run well, you can make your own version of the Meg Ryan / Tom Hanks movie Sleepless in Trout Creek
Well we will give it a try and see what we come out with...
Well I did my first boil last night I got 20 liters of sap and boiled it down on the stove and got 1 liter of light but has lots of sugar sand in it.
well we got 100 gallons today i have not tested sugar yet but will post later
Collected another 60 gallons today
Just discovered the big Coka Cola stroage tanks are marked and we now total
about 135 ... enough for the first boil. and my last collection today was about 3:30 - 4:00 so there's already a bunch read for pick up when it melts tomorrow ... if it melts
Got the holes in the roof and half the arch insulate. Now I'm fussing about the roof jack for the hot stack. How much clearance. Seems fires are pretty
common. Don't need that.
Well Guy’s thing are starting to let go up here in the north still 2 feet of snow around the trees but we collected 28 gallons for the first time this year, freeze tonight and high of +5 tomorrow and rain should help thing out, I should be able to sweeten the pan tomorrow night! We are starting to see the light for sweeter things to come!
Brent is that new rig all plumed in and stacks ready to go yet?
Mike
got the holes in the roof and the stacks going through. But Patrick forgot the roof jacks. They're on the way but he didn't say how, by who or what day he shipped so I can't trace them. Hopefully they'll get here tomorrow.
Still got some jig saw puzzling to do with the fire box bricks. I think these guys design them so bricking is nearly a voodoo art form.
BUT
I got 220 gallons of 3% sap with 3" of ice on it in the storage tank.
But I gotta lite the fire soon or I'll go crazy.
Hopefully first boil tomorrow.