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I just got done pumping 550 gallons of sap up to the sugar house. We will be boiling tomorrow night. I'm at 184 gallons of syrup produced so far. The sap I pumped up tonight should get me over 190 gals. which puts me real close to the 200 gals. that I set as the goal for the season.
I fell short of mine...really wanted to hit that Quart per tap. missed it by 15 gallons!!! Oh well just the red sox there's always next year!!! :)
If I take my buckets out of the tap count and discount the syrup made out of the sap that I got from them I would already be there and a little more. I should be real close after tonight and it looks like I will be boiling again tomorrow night too.Quote:
Originally Posted by red maples
It looks like if the sap in the woods tank is no good that I am going to be at or near 205 gallons for the season or just over the .25gpt I was shooting for. I just got in from making another 4 1/2 gallons to put me at 195 for the season. As sweet as the concentrate has been the last 3 boils I should be able to get 10 gallons more when I finish what is in the evaporator.
Other than a couple of cold spells and then a warm one where the sap didn't run the runs were pretty consistent. Most of the time I had 500 to 600 gallons of sap to boil. I see that some of my neighbors have called it a season and pulled their taps. I am still going here but not for much longer. I will taste the sap in the woods tank to determine if I am going to boil it or dump it. The sap I boiled tonight had a slightly sour taste to it but not bitter and the syrup taste good. I think it is grade B now but will know better tomorrow when I can look at tit in the daylight.
Making syrup wasn't too much fun when all I was making was NH fancy that didn't have the NH fancy flavor. That all changed when I built the Bubblemaster 1.0! If tonight's syrup turns out to be grade B and I think that it will, it will be the first B that I have made since the Bubblemaster 1.0 was installed.
hey you need to send me a photo of the bubblemaster 1.0 I have a plan in my head but need to see one!!! do you have any idea what CFM is need to for that? I am going to look into a squirrel cage blower so its not as noisy as the vac. I will just have to set up some sort of filter system on it. you can pick them up pretty cheap if they are strong enough that is. Cell phone is 686-0222 or you send it to my email bradrice@comcast.net both are easy. but email I can see bigger on the computer! whatever.
It is always a sad time when it is time to call it a season. The front bearing on my vacuum pump motor failed and I had to unplug it today. I finished what I had in my front pan and the total is now 198.5 gallons. It is still dark amber too. I pumped 400 gallons of sap up tonight and will be boiling tomorrow night. I'm not sure if it will make good syrup. I'll find out tomorrow.
Brad I'll get some Bubblemaster 1.0 pics posted. I have to send them from my phone to my email and the signal strength isn't strong enough here.
Sounds like a pretty good year for you Russ. Looks like this week may be the last for me but I'm gonna hang on as long as possible to make some Grade B.
It was a good season here this year. It's the second best of the last 5 and maybe ever. I can't seem to find my records from prior years and the memory only seems to work for a couple of specific ones. The very first, 2000, when I had 28 taps on gravity tubing and boiled on my gas grill. I made 3 1/2 gallons and my former son in law made 2 gallons from those taps. We dumped as much sap as we boiled that year. The first with my evaporator which was 2001 when I made 57 gallons on 305 taps. About 200 of those were gravity tubing and the rest were buckets. Then 2005 which was the worst season where I had a few more taps on buckets and added 200 more on vacuum. That was the first year with my RO machine too. It was so cold that I didn't start tapping until March 13th and the season was all done on the 30th. I only made 45 gallons of syrup that year.Quote:
Originally Posted by PerryW
If your forecast is anything like mine last night was the last freeze in the 10 day forecast. I wish you good luck with the rest of your season.
Thanks Russ, I'm sitting at 115 gallons and it's froze up tight. All I need is 6 more gallons I will have the best year since 2000! (made 136 gal that year).
I write my records right on the sugarhouse wall so I don't lose then. I just put the current season- total for each day that I make syrup so now i have 24 years of records for essentially the same trees.
I will be looking for an sp22 for next year!!! my little bb2 is running high vac but just isn't moving enough air with that much tubing and is taking too long to catchup after the releaser dumps.