Putting in around 100-115 sap sacks today. Glad I didn't put them out yesterday boy it was windy last night.
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Putting in around 100-115 sap sacks today. Glad I didn't put them out yesterday boy it was windy last night.
I put 230 bags out the last couple of days I guess I'll be looking for them tonight.. I'd like be at 300 for this run
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Originally Posted by CrossBroMaple
same here... i think they were mad at me because i didnt ask their approval for my sugarhouse name .... :o
I'm in, tapped 484 over the weekend.
tapped 450 on my tubing in the last few days, today had the vac pump running got a nice little run lookin to get around another 400 taps out in the next couple of days.
Gonna try to tap some of the 250 buckets that are left today. Already have tapped, 650 on tubing and 100 buckets since Monday (17th)
Tapped last night. Trees were dripping as soon as I drilled!!
With the help off pain pills, I got my 18 buckets out, took me all day. As usual my RA has flared up when I need to get things done like this. Would like to expand to 200 or so taps but I am afraid I would not be able to handle it. Hope everyone else is doing well and has a good season.
Rich,
Good luck...I know where you're coming from. I'm down here in Marysville and I've got 107 taps. I did the first sap run today and it took me two hours to run the buckets and felt like I'd put in 8 hours.
Kids all coming out and we're going to hang 140 bags tomorrow, but don't know why. We're headed right back into the freezer!
Have any of you in NE Ohio gathered or boiled yet?
I had 600 gal. Friday at 2%. made about 5 gal. of A DARK First time ever usually medium or lite, Lots of sugarsand . sap was off-color but clear. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come. Will drain pans and wait to see what happens with the weather.
still drippin to beat the band.. i wont have a final tally till this afternoon when i do my last collection before boiling tomorrow . . .
Got about 800 gal on vac yesterday and around 100 on 115 sap bags. I kind of kick myself for turning off my vac last night. By 9 it had froze up but this morning at 730 when I turned the vac on it was running good with no ice. Even though the ground and all puddles completely froze up over night.
Vac pulled 950 so far boiling right now making dark at 2% sap. Sap is clear as can be lots a sugar sand here too
Gathered 325 today, making medium. Sap from the sugar maples was 2.1. The 200 red maples on vacuum was at 1.5.
550 gal today at only 1-1.1%. Bags barely ran got around 50 gal from 115 bags.
Just to the east I've done pretty well. I've gotten 515gal. off of my 196 taps for this run. Sugar content low at 1.0 - 1.4%. I've got about 4gal. of medium made. It looks like I have a bit more sap for today. I don't know if it will be worth boiling. Guys on buckets are doing bad.
Heus, did you start up the RO yet? Hows that working for you? Good luck guys!
gravity did ok , about 240g on 140 or so, and another 15-20g on 23 buckets... just enough to boil today. ill check % today.
I've had 160 bags up since last Sunday, I've only collected 40 gallons of sap so far and it doesn't look like I will be seeing any more for the next week or so. What is my best option for the sap I have so far? Will it keep for another week with below freezing temps? It will take 40 gallons just to fill my pans let alone sweeten them.
Had 600 gal. friday @2% made 2-3 gal. of ADARK. Pans were filthy so drained and cleaned. Have about 200 gal. from Sat. not gathered yet. Not worth bringing in hope weather straightens out soon. Still Have 140 buckets to hang yet maybe this week.
Nice job folks to our west!
Sap sugar content sounds similar and making dark syrup is the same as we are seeing too.
Gathered Friday and Saturday 600 taps on gravity and hauled in total 800 gallons of sap for the two days at 2.5%. Made 8 gallons of dark syrup that had a red/pink tint in the hydrometer cup. Sugars sand avg qty but was dark purple. Syrup had slight off flavor, improving with the sap from Sat.
Good luck with the rest of the season.
Regards,
Chris
[QUOTE=Gary R;241481]Just to the east I've done pretty well. I've gotten 515gal. off of my 196 taps for this run. Sugar content low at 1.0 - 1.4%. I've got about 4gal. of medium made. It looks like I have a bit more sap for today. I don't know if it will be worth boiling. Guys on buckets are doing bad.
Heus, did you start up the RO yet? Hows that working for you? Good luck guys![/QUOTE
Gary the RO is awesome I removed about 700 gallons of water(from 950) Friday night and 400 gal of water from 550 last night.
130 gals sap on Thur and Fri. Syrup also dark. Can anyone explain why we're making dark syrup so early in the season?
Haven't got a clue on why the syrup is dark , but look on the bright side, dark syrup bulk prices will remain the same while lighter could fall in price from what I've been hearing.
I collected 220 gallons this weekend from 114 buckets and 103 on gravity. Sap was at 2.3%, syrup was Grade "A" Amber Rich. I am enjoying my 2x6 Lapierre since it arrived on Thursday. I had taps in before the evaporator arrived! It is a big improvement over the flat pan last year.
As of Sunday, we're all tapped. Some trees were running up here, but not enough to collect anything. Some of you are getting some good runs, I'm envious.
Hope it warms up some by the weekend.
Last weekends run I made 6.5 gallons of Dark Amber and 1.5 of medium. I emptied my 2x6 and finished it on my wood stove and it was lighter.
Tapping in the morning. Late start? It's just been too cold. How's it been going in Northern Ohio so far?
Just wondering how everyone is doing. We have made approximately 176 gallons so far. 160 gal have been dark amber. I'm fine with that because my bulk buyer, customers, and myself prefer dark anyways. Made B for the first time this season last night. That's because on Friday I stupidly filled my head tank with permeate on shutdown and flooded the flue pan. Had to boil that off to get back down to normal level. Looking forward to a big run Thursday and Friday. No signs of buds. Some parts of the woods are still frozen. Haven't even heard any peepers yet.
"too cold too late" seems to be the term that keeps ringing in my head. i have made about 12 gallons with another soon-to-be 5gal in the head tank , and to be at a quart per tap i need to make 43gal this year.... so im almost 1/2 way there for it to be a 'normal' season. nothing was 'normal' about last year as i made .45gal per tap!
i guess we all just got a bit spoiled last season.
if i had to guess its still going to be a normal year, just pushed back a bit.
With what's bottled - and what I have left to boil off today - I've should have about 9 gallons by day's end. But got to say, that sap this year is some of the clearest I've seen with sugar holding steady the mid 2's.
Overall YTD we are about 1/2 of what we had last year and pretty close to a "normal year", whatever that may be.
heus, curious as to what your sugar% has been. I have 350 buckets that have been at 3% and the 650 on tubing is at 2% go figure. The only difference is you have vac. mines all gravity and you have made 100 gal. more than I have. Last nite started making "B" after it had lightened up to med. Pretty sure this season is finished after this week with temps going into the 60's after this weekend. Anyway was just curious about your totals thinking how much of a difference vac. must make.
As of today I have made 10 1/2 gal , all dark amber
Mapleguy there is no comparison between vac and buckets, at least for me. If I had to rely on my 190 sap saks I would have made about 9-10 gallons. When I did gravity tubing it ran even less than my buckets. Been running at 23-26" of vac all season. Vacuum has turned what would have been a poor season for me into a decent one. My sugar content stinks by the way. Have averaged around 1.7% I think we have a couple of weeks left the ground is still frozen in some parts of my woods. Last year we made good syrup until April 6th I think we will go at least that long.
Northeast Ohio guys, I found a pic on ebay I thought some of you might appreciate. The pic was taken in 1943 at Fowlers mill. It was taken for an article in a newspaper from New York there are some cliff notes on the back. I though it was pretty cool so I bought it. Some how it made it down to Arkansas I had to bring it home. Attachment 9493Attachment 9494
Thanks. Just finished boiling off today's run and saw this.
That's a very neat old photo
Nice run yesterday about 2.5 gallons per tap on vac. Squirrels have decimated my tap count, however. 80% of our bags were destroyed in two days. I had already replaced most of them and replaced alot more yesterday. The trick of taping the bottom with duct tape to discourage chewing does not work. Fortunately they have pretty much left my tubing alone. No bags for me next year except for some yard trees. We are at 209 approximate gallons right now and hope to surpass last years total of 248.5 (although we have 200 more taps than last year)
Jason, that's some great production in these trying times. I might have to sneak over and see how your doing it! Hows the RO?
Gary I love it. Can't see how I lived without it. How's the evaporator running? Mine has done real well the past two seasons. It's made over 450 gal so far in that time.
Great run the last few days. Sap holding at 2.4 . The last run started slow but really got going yesterday. Finished off today as the snow began, up to 102 gal. and should make near last years of 140. I like to sugar with snow on the ground. Still making medium. The late season is turning out better than I thought three week ago.