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Turned around 400+L of sap into concentrate today. First boil on the new pan and arch. Run's like a champ. Somewhere around 45L (12USG) per hour. Can't really ask for much more from an 18"x48". May be able to squeeze another 5L/1G per hour on a high pressure day but who knows.
Still twiddling thumbs here...think I got all of 6l yesterday...yayy, fireworks!
ETA: just got home from small road trip, sun out, sap in pails, will probably collect mid-late afternoon to make it worthwhile firing up stove. FINALLY!
Our sap barely ran yesterday. We got 2300 gallons (1/2 GPT) plus the 1500 from the weekend so we boiled it. At times the releaser in our New Bush was dumping at 3 minute intervals (100 GPH) but then the sun went in and the north wind kicked up and it slowed down to 10 minutes!
I didn't measure the sugar content of the sap coming in but it must have been high because we made over 110 gallons and I started with an empty flue pan. The first runoff was 63LT (the contents of the syrup pan from last week's boil) and by the end of the boil it was probably closer to 70. It was some of the prettiest syrup I've made! The sap quality was great with no crud in the tanks. I got 70+ gallons of syrup through the first filter in the press before I needed to swap it out.
I am still optimistic that we have 2 good weeks in front of us. The 10-day forecast looks ideal and the snow forecast for Friday will help as a re-set. Because we're on the eastern end of the lake the west wind blows cold air off the ice into our woods so we'll freeze most nights if it gets close to zero.
Just got 18l sap in. Good, cause I really didn't want to make another microbatch of only 2-3l from what I currently have nearuped down for batch #4.
Been a great 2 day run for me. Got over 200 gallons from 100 on vac and 30 on buckets in 2 days. Sap is still comming in strong. Still got a huge iceberg in my tank so I'm going to wait till tomorrow night and RO it and boil. Should be a good run tomorrow also with it freezing up tonight.
Starting to run in the north end of the valley, collected about 60 litres today from 80 buckets... it's not that much but it's our biggest single day collection this year so far. Hoping it's just starting! Finally have enough to boil this weekend.
Monday I collected 47 L, yesterday sucked poop, only got 33 L, was sure I would have much more, but no go, tree's were not giving me the love lol. Im good with it though, I had to catch up a little, so tomorrow night I should be caught all up and ready for more, if it happens.
Im just leaving Thunderbay tring real hard to get ahead of this weather rolling in to make it home to see what.. or if trees gave me any significant results
First post. And first time tapping.
Tapped 7 Sugars at 5 pm on Wednesday and by 6 pm today I have so far collected 10 gal of clear sap, and they continue to drip! Not sure if that’s good production or not but regardless I’m ecstatic and planning to boil on Sunday.
Welcome Maplelane1. :) Your trees are doing you proud. That's a very respectable sap run. Have fun with your first boiling session and then break out the French toast.