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Didn't freeze here worth a darn either, but I think we got
something about 400-500 gallons. I boil, she is the sap hauler, and she doesn't bother with numbers much. I boiled non-stop from about 1:00 to 10:30. RO running, SteamAway bubbling. Think we made something like 100 litres. The wood consumption is astonishing. I had maybe 3 to 3/12 cords put down and didn't think we had enough so we got the Menonites to send down 3 more cords. I don't think we'll get through my stuff. We'll have the Menonite maple well seasoned for next year.:D
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Froze here yesterday and last night. Good frost on the roof and frozen mud on the ground. The problem is too much sap. The barrels overflowed yesterday. As of this morning, I have 1200L + to get through. Should be a long day. And the sap just keeps flowing. In years to come, I'll think back on 2011 as the great one!
Steve.
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Gathered 80 gallons today, snow coming tonight then rain tomorrow. Hoping Wed., Thurs. Fri. will be the big days of the year. With so much snow still in the bush, we would normally not even be close to halfways done, but I'm afraid it won't freeze much after this upcoming weekend. It's days like these past few where I wish I had vacum.
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Trees have finally quit running, with the last freeze being Tuesday night.
Took off 63 litres of amber today for a total of 597. So that's 131.5 Imp. gals. and 158 USG.
By the looks of tonight's forecast, I think I'm done.
Got just over 200 gals. to boil tomorrow.
It was snowing snowballs, sleeting, and raining all at once this evening.
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So you didn't like the snow and sleet part and sent them on up to us. Thanks a bunch.
We got about 750 gallons of sap today and boiled it all but about 20 gallons that came in late. I think we could easily get another few runs. There is no change in the tree tops yet. With all the work to get the new-to-me rig running I sure hope there's more in the season. It's neat to see it finally all come together.
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I can use a break in the sap, looks like more coming mid week.
I am far enough behind I might have to toss some out tomorrow as it's gonna go bad on me.
Up to 84 litres ... given that I put in about 20 taps a week or so late I'd say I'm doing pretty decent. Especially with about 200 gallons of sap in the tank.
I've been getting about 2 gallons of syrup for every 70 gallons of sap.
Trail likely impassible after the rain today.
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We made 109 gallons Friday, 75 gallons Saturday and 65 gallons yesterday. All was medium except the first few runoffs Friday and Saturday. As long as we keep the tanks clean and process it fast we're not making amber yet. We should get enough drums of that later this week. We'll likely exceed 1L syrup per tap tomorrow.
LittleEnnis and I had everything fine tuned and humming along all weekend. At one point on Friday I had the RO concentrating, The Beast running off 1L of syrup every minute or so, the Sirofilter humming along and was filling and labelling containers all by myself. It's a pleasure to boil when everything is problem free!
We haven't totalled up and crunched the numbers yet but it looks like the CV's are producing the lion's share of the sap right now. Yesterday we averaged 0.75 gallons sap per tap but our 2 bushes that are exclusively CV's produced over 0.80L per tap so the rest is likely closer to 0.70L/tap. The next week will be the litmus test for the CV's vs the other spouts we're using.
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Just came back from the bush with another load (4:00pm).
We've got 400-450 gallons of sap from the vac and the 75 buckets aren't going to give up much more that may 15 gallons. I'm relecutant to boil with such a small amount but with the warm temps I don't want to lose it either. Going to start the RO now.
PS made the first batch of maple cream today with the new D&G machine ... at least she tried while I was in the bush.
Man is this thing fast. Before she could get all the syrup in there was cream cpming out the top. YUM
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Boiled the last 200 gals. yesterday and got 11 litres for a total of 608 and it went dark.
Looks like we're done down here in the soggy south.
Got to service the argo, clean the 2 line tanks, and then start hauling water back to the bush to finish off what's in the pans tomorrow.
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Still trying to get thru the weekend sap before it goes bad. Batch I finished last night was amber but delicious, sap in tank looking a tiny bit cloudy be refiltering before putting in pan clears it up... will have to taste carefully as it finishes to make sure it's ok. Might use another 70 gallons of the 150 or so in the tank.
almost no wood left, think I may dump most of the sap sitting around anyways and boil the new sap that should come tomorrow or Thursday
