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Between Friday and Saturday's runs we had enough to boil Saturday evening. There were only a few kinks to iron out but overall things went well. The RO ran well, the new sap tank is great (3,000 gallons storage in the camp is awesome!) and we love the new cross-flow pan. The sap was kinda cloudy coming in so we made a low light (almost medium) but it tasted great.
With the new sap tank in the camp we re-plumbed to a rigid 1.5" pipe to feed the supply pump. Even with 2 Celcius sap we still pushed 625+ gallons per hour through the RO all night. Last year we had a 1.25" pipe and we struggled to get 500GPH with cold sap.
The PITA is the fresh snow got packed down into ice and we couldn't get pallets of wood to the door of the sugar camp. We don't have chains on the back tires and with all the weight on the front forks we just spun in place.
Yes it was boiling great on Sunday. Now waiting again to warm up to get more sap. So far this year did not hit the ratio that I have more sap than I can boil.
I have 80 taps and a 3X2 Patrik Paneuf evaporater. On a good day I can boil 7 gallons\hour.
Dave
Is that a flat pan Dave?
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HI all,
looks like this weekend is it for the ottawa area.. -5 at night +8 during the day. I have 66 our of 110 taps in and will put the rest in tonight and tomorrow. I gathered 30 gallons of sap from friday and saturday.
Good luck to everyone for the weekend because i think we are going to get what we have been hoping for.
Mark
You think after this blast it may all come to an end? The weather going up to the pluses and staying there doesn't seem promising for a long season. Might be short and sweet. If so I should get some extra taps in and collect what I can! Then again, it could get cold again and continue on which would give me more sap than I can handle.
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Kyle, that's also going to be my strategy for this year. Put in extra taps and boil and boil and boil. If I get more than I can handle I'll be chucking out every bit of loose ice that I get and I'll be using my refractometer to make sure that I'm always boiling the sweetest buckets first. This season could be fast and furious, and if it is, I'll be ready.
i once saved all the ice and melted it. then measured the sugat at .5%, so it is not much if your running near 3%
i have seen years where is ends quickly but there is so much snow left that i don't think the cold weather is leaving us yet.
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Please gawd I hope so, I have only about a month left before I pull my spiles (unless one of you guys want to stop by and collect whatever my trees produce). Fed up with getting nothing for 4-5 days, then some 1-2 days ad nauseum!!
oh boy, the environment Canada forecast has now changed the nightly lows to below zero for over the weekend and early next week with nice day time highs.... get ready Galena cause it's coming.
I need to get more taps in pronto..