We collected 100 gallons this morning i'm going to boil down on tues afternoon it is just to humid right now.
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We collected 100 gallons this morning i'm going to boil down on tues afternoon it is just to humid right now.
James
It is certainly lousy out there now. We got about 100 gallons also.
But I'm boiling without the evap.
The el cheapo RO system has dumped 100 gallons of nice pure water for us.
Cost 30 cents of electricity and I didn't have to light a match. I'm starting to really like this little rig.
Well I will agree with you Brent the weather is bad, I boiled till 1am last night in the thunder storm we had, when I left the house and went across the field their was a bout 2” of water on the ground, when I came back at 1am we had 2 ½’ of it just wish my taps ran that fast any how I made 3 more gallons last knight it sure a slow start to the season.
Godd greif Linus, you'll be collecting with a canoe soon
Have no fear Brent I am one step ahead of you I pulled my boat out of storage on Sunday and it is ready for sapping!!!
so you gonna do wild rice and cranberries later ????
We started the wild rice a couple of years ago for the ducks. I never thot of cranberries but I think i will just stay with one hobby for now. My wife has been making out the new honey do list for after the maple season.
The sap really started to run here last night at about 4pm but I collected 100 gallons before that started got back at 6:30 pm and started boiling and then packed up at 11pm got about 100 gallons gone out of 300.
I'm out of town this week - my kids are ready to revolt. My 10 and 14 year olds had to do all the collecting themselves last night. 100 trees - 150 gallons, and they had to haul all the sap to the 2 tanks strategically located as I wasn't there to tow a tank from spot to spot. Took them 2 1/2 hours and it was all hard slogging as the rain has softened the snow and they were sinking in all the way. Looks like a lot of boiling this weekend. Glad I still had lots of ice in the tanks. Brent's RO is sounding pretty good right now.
The excitement about the RO may have been premature. The initial few runs were great but the water production dropped significantly on Tuesday. But that may have been operator error. Fatigue, age, etc may have played a part. I did not flush the system Monday. I don't have any good cleaners. So I don't know if it will recover or if it is hopelessly plugged.
We got 165 gallons yesterday with an estimated 25 more left in the bush because of darkness and icing.
Should be good today as well but the next freezing night isn't forecast to be till April 14th SH*T