Ennis- GO BUDDY, GOOOOOO!!!!!!!! You guys are due. YOU GUYS ARE MAKIN HISTORY, BROTHER!!!! Thats what Parker would say. Make a ton buddy, Theron
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Ennis- GO BUDDY, GOOOOOO!!!!!!!! You guys are due. YOU GUYS ARE MAKIN HISTORY, BROTHER!!!! Thats what Parker would say. Make a ton buddy, Theron
I might be in trouble because when I go up this morning my trees in the yard were running already or maybe still is what I am scared of. I might, maybe, could be, hopefully be swamped today. If so its what I have waited all march for. Might have to haul if over to Ennis to boil as he wants lots to boil also.
Gonna be a BIIIIG day today. Luckily I found some drums I can borrow or we would have been putting syrup in a 100 gallon stocker tank by supper time! No report from my brother yet on how the sap and sugar content looks but we should push a lot of golden brown through the finishing pan today.
Well if I boil to midnight I should be almost caught up to yesterdays sap. Today I had buckets full at 9 already . It had to have froze since they had ice in them. I have had to empty a couple already again and it looks like it will be my biggest day yet and that's with looseing my silver maples which gave me half my sap. Had to take the taps off the birchs as I won't have time to boil the sap I have already let alone any more. If it feezes tonight I might need another evaporator to catch up.
Now this is what I figured sugaring was supposed to be.
NW Wisconsin is in it up to our eye brows as well. We are hitting 45 to 50 during the day and freezing at night.
We are getting solid gallon+ per tap per day everyday for the last 10 days, and it looks like it will carry through the weekend.
I am at about 1/3 gallon of syrup per tap now, and have only made grade A syrup. Lots of sugar sand lately, foaming like mad. I will have about 2400 gallons to process tonight.
It looks like it may be a max year for north american syrup production. I hope Canada fill up some reserve and keeps things moderated!!!
Either that, or Theron and Ennis can sit on their syrup for a while, that should keep the market high!!!
Anyone excited for next year yet?
Does wishing this year would end count?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff E
Holy cow Jeff. What a great year for you. Keep going on all the mersh you can and make a half gallon. Id of kept going but just couldnt keep it in the pan. I think If I could have single shot the stuff right into the evap I think I could have gone longer. Next year Im going to have some more equipment and see if I cant do that. Im really happy for you after all the work you did to see you make so much syrup. Theron
My 75 taps at 1200' elevation has their best day of the season so far yesterday (thursday), but my lower elevation 675 taps (900' elevation) ran only 200 gallons
Reamed some tap holes yesterday and have got better than half of my taps flowing again. Going to finish reaming before it starts to run again today and should have BIGSAP by tonight.
It is clear to see that the trees like having something new in the tap hole. My new section of woods was the only section that was still running until yesterday. I had already decided that I am going to replace the drops in my old section of woods for next year. The proof is in the releaser I could have made it to the end without reaming if I had something new in the tap holes right from the start.
got the big sap last nite. started at 3 pm and it was like a fire hose. by 11.30 pm a had 155 gallons in drums. my new woods 1665 taps were running 500 gallons sap per hour. 4200 gallons that was 2.5 gallons of sap per tap in 8-1/2 hours. and those trees are all reds. the frogs were out in the pool i cool the pump. very different to see that and get that volume. no freeze last nite so will slow down today. ended boil with med amber.
We had some kind of frost last night again so should get some kind of sap today.If I do it would be the first time I got sap 3 days in a row.Two is the best I have done all season and its supposed to get really cold tonight so I should be swamped by tommorrow night.
Saw this in the news today.
4/10/2009 UPC- Toronto - NASA Scientists Puzzled Over Gas Cloud
NASA Scientists were puzzled yesterday by unusual gas clouds over an area of southern Quecec yesterday. The ERDATZ Global Mapping Satellite, launched by NASA in 2005, was performing a standard mapping run when it detected the unusual gas clouds. While the satellite was originally designed to map forest types and land use patterns, NASA has been studying weather phenomenon over the last six months and has been mapping North America for a NOAA Weather model.
After a field visit by NASA personnel, the gas clouds we traced to a new Maple Syrup producer in the small town of Ayer's Cliff, Quebec. While the producer's name has been withheld pending investigation, authorities have stated that the producer has a small operation of just over 100 taps, and a homebuilt setup with stainless steel pots.
"It appears that the unusually high volume sap runs, combined by the boiling of Box Elder Sap and the sap of various maple trees contributed to the phenomenon", said NASA Spokesman Nick Tubin.
Several small tornados were also spawned by the massive sap clouds which caused damage in several sugarbushes in nearby Newport Vermont. A spokesman for the Vermont Sugarmakers Association is considering civil charges against the Ayer's Cliff sugarmaker for the damage.
Very funny. If I only could find about a 1000 buckets today I could really make clouds. I discovered a whole stand of sugar maples all with not buds all standing alone out in the bush today. I could make about a truck load of syrup with them. I need to hide my drill.
Ken, you gonna be busy today. All my higher elevation buckets are running grrreat with nice clear, tasty sap and some will be running over by mid-afternoon.
My lower elevation sugarbush in Littleton of 650 is running at half-speed though.
I'm guessing I can pull the grade back from B into Dark Amber although it will probably still taste like B.
108 gallons and counting here.
I ran out of sap storage. trying to boil my way out of it some how. I am working on 12 and 13 gallons right now.
Ended up with about 225 gallons of sap today, as my main bush is slowing down. Still grading out at Dark Amber.
Since Sunday afternoon I've only gotten about 500 gal. of sap from the bush, so I'm calling it quits. Boiled almost 1000 gal. this evening. Many of the buckets are still running well, but probably not much longer with no freezes in sight. Sugar is down to 2% on roadsides and 1.2% from the bush. I should finish with a full 55 drum of mersh, so I guess it was worth it to keep on the last few days.
Tim
I have way to much sap right now so am looking to pull taps on budded or budding trees to cut down the volume. Been a pretty good year for a first timer.