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Jeff- Thats a heck of an upgrade for one year. You going to be all ready by season? I hope this year is more relaxed for me. That first year is a humdinger learning everything. Just wait till your first run. You wont believe your eyes. Splush, splush, your going to be thinking holy guakamoly when you see that coming into the releaser. I didnt have that many taps last year and I was pretty impressed. Theron
Brought 3 more cords to the sugarhouse yesterday,,I have 6 cords cut 4 foot to split and 6 to cut and split,,,,I am going to try to cut and split it all this week comming up,,,just have to hook the crane back up to the slasher,,,I havent been in any of the sugarwoods in over a month,,need to do line patrol,,,ect.......lots to do,,,,oh, yeah,,,and that airtight front,,,,better get off the computer and get to work !
VVS - Tree rat recipe - chop off hind legs with hatchet, chop off tail pull,off hide cook like chicken wings. Maple hill - there is a great business oppertunity at a cock fight , TAKE OUT "LOOSERS BB-Q " Work is slow so maybe Id go down with some paper plates and napkins and set up for the winter. -SS
Headin back in the woods. Should have used up 1200 drops in another hour or so. Using quarter inch spiles for these drops and cut out the old for consistency. Going to reuse the ones I took out which are only probly 300. Going to put them in a different spot. Then 800 new and done unless I come up with more money. Hoping to have my side of the road done this week. Have a lot of mainline connections to make. Probly wont be on the trader to much for a little while. Big tank is coming today. Pretty excited about that. Not sure about tap numbers but I should have 4300 gallons of tank and I think it may be possable to fill them in a day. Not sure about the culls but the good ones are really good so I think things will kind of even out. Have to wait and see. Gotta keep on keepin on like Joe Dirt says. I love weekends. To bad a guy couldnt make a livin at this. Theron
Hi PA,
Seeings that I am a "Raw Sap Boiler", after that clear liquid comes out of the RO, what's the %?
I am having a bit of a job thinking about you boiling all that and working a full-time job too!!
Then again, I understand about ROs and what they do, just never been around one that's all!!
I guess I'll have to go hang out with the Gov next spring for a day!!
It's raining here, 54 degrees and the temperature is supposed to drop big time tomorrow and Monday.
Thanks for the info.
Dave
Parker,
I remember you have gone through ungodly cords of wood in previous years and you seem to be preparing for the worse again this year. Do you have any idea how much efficiency you will gain with the air tight front? What do you think the minimum gain should be in order to make it worth the effort?
Make sure you keep us posted on efficiency gains.
3%-Im not sure what the percent will be but it will have to be high. Im going to have to recirculate pretty much just to keep up. Itll be kind of a new thing for me. Im just going to let it run getting rid of water a lot and then rinse it and hopefully it will be good and high when I put it in the head tank. Next year Im going to get another vessel but I really cant afford it right now so Im just going to make do. Ill take a lot of time off if I have to. I want to make as much syrup now while the prices are high. Plus mainly I just want to see huge sap which I think I should see. Huge for me at least. Just thinking about those releasers dumping really gets me under motion in the woods. Theron
So is this month's official Mapleholics meeting being called to order on Sat Nov. 15th at 8 am @ Red Roof Maple on Pleasant St. Extension in Loudon, NH? If so then mapleman3 will have to list it on the calendar.
3%- You could hold the sap in the vessel and keep recirculating it in a sense to make it come out sweeter=like 20%+ in one pass if i was to turn down the concentrate leaving the vessel to like 1/2 to 3/4 GPM/but things slow down bigtime as it doesn't like it above 20%. Most would do it in stages like letting out 3 gpm concentrate and then send that concentrated batch through the RO again and up the brix to say 15% and then do it one more time and it's around 20% then. Generally your letting out about 3 gals+ a minute of 8% concentrate on the first pass and the permeate-water is leaving the vessel at like 7 gals a minute=600 GPH flow RO machine.
You know what it is doing what by watching your flow meters and PSI gauge's on the machine. Can't really blow it up as there are safety features so that if it gets too high of a PSI on the membrane it will shut down/no sap coming into the feed water pump to the high PSI pump=it shuts off. Just got to watch the flow rates and you'll know when the membrane is clogging up with bacteria and then you'll need to do a rinse/maybe a wash to get it back up to it's max. flow rate again. After about the first 5 minutes of operation things will level out PSI wise and flow rate wise and then you won't even have to look at the RO=It's on auto pilot-;)
Things are speeded up 10 fold with 20%+ concentrate on the evaporator when drawing of syrup. The 2X6 was making around 10-12 gals of syrup per hour with the concentrate over 20%. About enough time to run syrup through the filter press and get right back on the handle for the next batch to come off. :)
It's all about letting the machine do the work and save on energy/fuel/labor and time spent boiling sap into syrup.
Fittings went together easy today, a little help from the rain. New expansion is taped out. Just need to finish the main lines, maybe dry line, 1400', down to the road in the valley. Too early to post final tap count. If you build it they (Taps) will come.