Off limits on sunday??
You may be on to something with the no mainline mainline on gravity thing. That's a whole lot of sap my friend!
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Off limits on sunday??
You may be on to something with the no mainline mainline on gravity thing. That's a whole lot of sap my friend!
I ended up picking up another 525 gallon of sap yesterday evening, that is over 1300 gallon of sap I picked up in one day. Most of it ran on Sunday and a little on Saturday evening. Funny thing was it was high 50's on Sunday with lots of sun and it ran close to 2 gallon per tap and it was nearly 65 yesterday with high south winds and lots of sun and the sap kept on running, go figure.
Boiled off 850 gallon of sap in 13 hours/65gph. Never thought I would get the evaporator running that good, but it just eats the sap thanks to the help of Jerry(802maple). That's about 15 gph better than I have ever done before. I am holding most of the rest of it until Sat for the open house as the sap was crystal clear and I am chucking 6 aluminum sap buckets with frozen sap into the milk tank once or twice a day. It was still running some yesterday evening and hope to collect that and boil off some more tommorrow as I have been too sick to do anything today.
Thru yesterday, that puts it to just over 3000 gallon of sap so far. Hopefully we can get another 1,000 to 2,000 gallons over the next 2 weeks before the season ends.
your like a well oiled machine this year Brandon.... I'm just glad to be boiling finally!! I may have to hold sap for a day if I don't get my oil tomorrow .... got that Lapierre 310 gal stainless tank I got from Chris(the Maple Guys) last year... may finally put it to use.. it's there as a backup... with the truck tank and the 2 stainless I can hold around 830 gals in a pinch
OH HEY STARTING TO SMELL LIKE MAPLE HERE !!! THE PANS ARE GETTING SWEET !!!!!!!
Bout time you are boiling there buddy. Good luck, it is getting ready to kick into high gear in the next 10 days.
Brandon,
Not sure how you have had time to post. Nice work! Wow lots of SAP! And the grade is still holding for you too. Keep it up. Hope you are feeling better.
Regards,
Chris
I am feeling a little better this evening as I have been really sick for about the past 24 hours. Everything we drew off yesterday is in 5 gallon buckets and I would imagine it is likely light and maybe medium worst case.
Hope to gather what is in the tanks that ran from last night tommorrow afternoon if I am not too sick and boil off some more. Supposed to be 15 Saturday night and with all the flooding today, it should run like gangbusters again next week.
Picked up 440 more gallon of sap that ran from Monday night thru Tues. That is 1750+ gallons of sap without basically any freeze in 3 days. On top of that, we got tons of rain and some minor flooding and the ground it super saturate and it is supposed to get to the low teens this weekend, so next week should be a good run.
One of my helpers is going to boil off 380 gallons tommorrow and I am trying to hold 500+ until Saturday morning for the open house. Supposed to 26 tonight and 54 tommorrow, never know might get a good run tommorrow which would be nice so I can boil off the old sap on Friday and put the new sap for Saturday. I let the big tank recirculate thru the UV for close to three hours this evening, so hopefully that will help it and may do the same tommorrow.
Brandon,
Have someone take some pictures during the open house for you. Hope you get a good crowd!
Regards,
Chris
Picked up another 200 gallons yesterday and my helper picked up about 300 more today which is 2,200+ for the week. One of my helpers boiled off around 365 yesterday and is boiling off aprox 250 to 300 today and that should leave us aprox 700 to boil off tommorrow for the open house. Best sap week I have ever had, but been very tough as I am still sick and have been pretty sick since Monday and so has the wife and both kids. Hopefully I can get better before next week which looks like another pretty good run starting about Wed as I am going to be short my main helper about the rest of the season.
Canned off 13.325 gallon yesterday of ultra light syrup that we boiled off on Monday.
Finished boiling off last night everything that had ran from the week and what a week it was. I just glanced at the water meter before leaving last night and it appears we got over 2400 gallon of sap last week with most of it coming from Sunday thru Tues. Funny thing was that I got more sap in 3 days than I got in the entire month of Feb. Pretty good to make over 50% of the best crop I ever had in 6 days worth of sap. Sap quality was really good and everything this week would have been probably light if I wasn't trying to hold sap all week for the open house and being sick all week. It looks like everything after Monday will be Dark from holding it so long and getting behind, but a good flavor. This coming week looks like we are going to be swimming again. For the year, I am at 4100 gallon of sap and aprox 80 gallon of syrup. It looks like we made close to 48 gallon of syrup this week. Wood pile is getting small as I have never gotten to 5000 gallon of sap in the past and I figured before the season started, I would have enough wood for close to 6,000 gallon of sap and that still looks to be the case. It appears we should be at least at 5500 gallon of sap by the end of the week and possibly 6,000 as the ground is swimming with water from 2 large rains and snow this past week and it got down to about 13 or 14 last night, so once it warms, it should pour again. Interesting thing is that the best I can estimate, I got 1,150 gallons of sap in 6 days from the new 157 taps I opened last Friday and this doesn't include what ran on the ground.
If we don't run into any problems, looks like it will be a record year this year and I wish the same for all my other syrup brothers. This Saturday may be it for me as it will be within about 5 days of the end of the season. If there is still wood, I will keep on going, if not, then we'll call it a year.
The weather got really bad yesterday but we still did have a pretty good open house with 60+ people in attendance. I am still sick, but hoping to rest up today and not go at it too hard tommorrow.