Jeff, I think you are in decent shape to get some sap over the next few days. You have several below freezing nights starting tomorrow night and that should get the sap flowing for you. I wish I could say the same for here.
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Jeff, I think you are in decent shape to get some sap over the next few days. You have several below freezing nights starting tomorrow night and that should get the sap flowing for you. I wish I could say the same for here.
Hey Karen
Just looked at the weather network mnus 1 and minus 2 for next 2 nights I sure hope it falls a little more and it flows good .I don't have enough SAP to even fire up the new evaporator I chomping at the bit to try before the SAP I have collected starts to spoil.
My fingers are crossed
Jeff, I think your long range forecast looks really good. It's full steam ahead for you later this week and after the weekend. Catch up on your sleep now. :)
I sure hope the weather works to wonder and it makes the SAP flow like a small river lol .if not I going to have to post a ad
"FREE SAP WANTED" to save my season lol
Will check back later and see how others trees are flowing .
Killdeers arrived back here today,lots of geese flying around,soft maple look like they're blowing out.Going to try running the vacuum pumps to see if enough will haul in to boil
We collected 55 gals Monday, 70 Tuesday and only 35 today. The larger trees were still flowing but the smaller ones not. That's on top of ~80 gals of ice that was in the tank from a week ago.
My youngest had sweetened the evaporator Saturday and then I boiled yesterday and made 10l of Light (aka Amber now). The boys have been boiling since they got home from school tonight and still had 80 gals left to go when I went out to check on them at 10. Not sure how long they will keep going. We still have a nice berg in the storage tank so whatever they don't finish will stay cold. Fingers crossed for a few cold nights. Attachment 13694
Still a slow start around here. Put 40 taps in last weekend and only collected 30 liters of sap so far. Temps have been 5 to 7 degrees daytime and around 0 to -2 at night. Hoping for a good run in the next two days so I can boil this weekend. Of my 30 liters of sap, 24 liters came from one tree along the driveway, I wish they all produced like that.
That's a really nice photo of your syrup Big_Eddy. I hope your boys kick into overdrive tonight for you.
Well today was going great, got my SAP boiling early, got the tote out of the ice, moved in 3 stainless steel tables into the sugar shack, and it all ended in 5 minutes. Burnt the pan, 110 gallon boil down turned into something. Collected 67 gallons, and a mess to reckon with tommorow.::)Attachment 13695
I had moths and fly's around the taps on a few of my trees yesterday.... stealing my sap before it got to the bucket lol !!! Really didn't get much of a flow yesterday, really made me bummed out. While I was in the bush the sun poked out a few times and the taps started dripping and then the clouds came back and they turned off. I will use today to boil down what I collected yesterday... fingers and toes are crossed that the next few nights have cooler temps and I get some more to boil. I have only have 3 liters of finished syrup right now and 2 litres of that has to go to the property owners for letting me use their tree's.