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Brent
When you going to post all the pictures of your new toy - inside, outside, left side, right side, bottom, top etc.? We need to see it from every angle- the one picture on the website doesn't do it justice. Make sure you take those pictures while it's still nice and shiny.
I'd like to know after the season if you thing the 2x6 is right sized for your operation. We do 100 trees on buckets (and I could easily do 200) and I don't know whether a 18"x5', 2'x4' or a 2'x6' would be best. I'm getting tired of 18 hour days with our 2'x3' flat pan and looking for more shiny metal but I don't want to have to save up all week for a run either.
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more pix to come. got to get bricked and light fire first
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Brent, good luck with the new rig. Hope things run well.
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Well we are now up to 56 gals of sap so far the trees are slowly starting to unthaw, looks like our first boil will be Friday. I run it off and see what we get for first round sap it is at 2.3%, we should get another 30 gallons today high of +4 then below 0 degrees for the next 6 day. Got home yesterday to a fresh white 3” of global warming. Looks like things will start to really run by the end of the month.
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Well we got 250 gallons of 3% on Monday and I spent Tuesday and Wednesday sweetening the pans after school and got no syrup yet but I am really close.
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Hey we finally hit 100 gallons of sap last night its not much but enough to finally run the first batch tomorrow. The weather office just gave us the next 6 week report and their calling for more winter here we may have a slow long season this year well in to may!
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I've boiled down 100 gallons so far and have another 50 or so in the tank plus probably 30 in the pails. Been a poor week so far - haven't bothered to collect since last Sunday although our forecast for the Easter weekend looks somewhat promising.
Here's hoping for -5 nights and +5 days for the next week. Good luck to all.
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well this morning I put out about 30 - 35 more buckets. They were gushing when I tapped them. No sun, temp just about 34.
At about 4:30 I decided I'd better go collect. The 35 gallon tank on the skidoo topped up once. It was slow to transfer to the main tanks. Back to the woods. Topped up again ... slow would have been good to transfer ...
UH OH it's all freezing in the tanks and transfer hose. Not even going back for the 3rd load.
I'll have an early haul in the AM, if it gets warm enough to pour.
Everything is freezing. Wind is howling like Jan 10. YUK
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So we had a members "who's got the biggest tree" thing.
How bout a "who's got the biggest ICE CUBE"
250 gallon brick in one tank. Opened the valve last night and a few drops moved into the ball valve, but not enough to make it dribble out. Put a heater on it and this morning we got a bit of a gush. Who knows how much is thawed behind it. The saks in the sunniest areas half melted yesterday. The buckets were hopeless.
Might get 1 or 2 degrees warmer today but they're only calling for ZERO around here. PHOOOEEEE.
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You win Brent I don’t let my ice cubes get that big I learned my lesson 2 years ago with 7 55gallon drums froze solid after a flash freeze and no wear to put sap. Well I sweetened the pan last knight we should run off a bout 2 1/2 gallons later today. Temps should reach mid 20's today.
