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Finished tapping my 750 on pipeline and 30 buckets. Closed the valves at 3 PM today March 6. Running slow now but may trickle in tonite & tomorrow.
Tomorrow looks a little warm (high 50's) but a lot of my trees need some thawing anyway. Looks better after that with below freezing on the weekend.
running good today north of you, have about 1,200 gallons, vacuum will stay on all night. Supposed to be nice weather tomorrow.
I ended up with about 325 gallons of sap today. I would expect around 500-550 gal when things get going.
Gathered almost 400 gallons of sap just before dark. Sjould make my first syrup of the season tomorrow AM.
Still running okay when I gathered but no gusher. The colder taps are still sluggish.
Hoping for a mild freeze tonite, and some more sap tomorrow. After that, I'm just hoping the weathermen are wrong.
Glad to see you had a good day. We collected over 2,000 gallons and still running. Probably had a few hundred gallons froze in the lines, thawed out this afternoon. Temps are supposed to be warm but you might be ok in Lyman for the week. Good luck.
Gathered 575 gallons today and made first syrup of 2012; 17 gallons of high-end medium.
Perry, I took your evaporator problem thread to heart and hit it hard last night. Out of my 2.5x8, I usually get say 70gph out of it and run 13-1400F stack temps. I thought I was being wasteful, so I stopped splitting the wood down and went to loading it every 5-7 min. Did this for a week and found the evap. rate went down to about 60 gph and I had a harder time maintaining a gradient in the pan. Last night, I went back to my old ways, split everything down to wrist size, threw on a few sticks each side every few min., stack temps 1500F+, and the RO running 90gph into the feed tank was barely getting ahead of me. I went through more wood, but not 50% more, and we put some concentrate through her last night. Made somewhere around 30 gal, but grades been at a B since Saturday's run.
Yeah, I vary back and forth between wood conservation mode and get-her-done mode. In wood conservation more, I leave the damper almost closed and the back of the back pan only boils slowly. In get-her-done mode, I run the damper wide open and the flames shoot out of the top of the 20' stack.
gathered 80 gal of sap today. Made another 10 gallons of mid-range medium for a total of 27 gal. I will at least hit 25% crop (30 gal) by boiling the contents of the pan.
Still hoping the 10-day forecast is wrong.
A very mild freeze this morning. but only enough for the coldest taps to weep out a quart (at the most). Supposed to be slightly colder tonite, looking at one more shot at some sap tomorrow before more gloomy temperature predictions.