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9 degrees, here this am, long day yesterday, boiled an hour made 51 gallons.had over 100 people tour the operation. sold alot of pints. gov and his wife blended in, never know they were there. i got a chance to talk to him for 15 minutes or so about ag diversity and maple pricing.and world wide markets.
Took the marketing team (my 2 girls) with me on pump patrol today,,they love tromping around in the sugarwoods,,,both meredith and emma stayed on top of the snow,,I kept on breaking thru,,,,down to 20 last night,,,a perfect 46 today,,more than a piddel happening but not really running,,,I have to think the 3 feet of snow (at least) around all my trees is really slowing things down,,,,I was looking at some pics I took (yes, I have a problem) of lines running into releasers full port in years gone by,,noticed all the snow was pretty well gone in all those pics,,,,
Got the pumps going-snow changing to rain-38 deg, no run,,tapped porqupine hollowin Hill (68 more 1868 taps now?),then opend the booster and froze the wet and dry line solid to the releaser :) -lost all my vac,,,,,that does not make me happy,,,,raining at my house now,,gonna take a gambel and go back up there,,hope it thawed out so I can check for leaks,,had 22" befor,,,dont want it down to 14 (or lower) all night,,,not enough sap here to collect and boile (mabey600 gallons)...................
Hill had thawed out upon my return,,,fixed a few leaks and got the system back to 22",,releaser was not freezing inside so left the pump running,,,check rte.11 on way home,,releaser was freezing inside badly and bearley running (seemed colder there) but left it running,,went to hoit road,,releaser was frozen (leak on the slides-sucking some air right into the line going to the pump) as I took the vac. line off the releaser I broke a fitting on the balance tank :),,,off to lowes at 8pm,,,went by rte.11 on way back,,that was solid,,shut it off,,off now to break some more stuff-burn more gas
I have noticed a few thing about higher vac. levels (over 20") #1 if you have a leak somewhere and the temp is around freezing,,the line will freeze (not the case at 16")
#2 the higher vac. you pull the more leaks you find
Parker,
She finally let go overnight last night. 300 gallons in both locations off 220 taps. I suspect you and Mighty Marvin will be spending a lot of time together over the next couple days. Good luck and have fun.
Mark- I think you might be right,,after one heck of a bulnder filled day yesterday we managed to collect 1600 gallons and empty all the tanks and wash them,,,did not get home last night till 8pm and did not have enough wind in my sails to boil,,heading down there now
Had a warm rain yesterday afternoon which really knocked the snow down,,had a big mist in the afternoon,,,,froze a littel last night,,then tremendous winds all night,,,we had all the vacuum pulling 22" or above yesterday,,hope we did not loose it with the wind,,,,I just might go on vacuum patrol befor I start boiling,,,not sure,,GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!!!! If anyone is in the area I should be going all day-night-I hope,,,stop by say Hi
Just got back from vacuum tour-all pumps ran all night and are pulling steady now-no loss of vacuum,,,better get my butt down there and throw a macth in Marvin,,,we got work to do
yesterday at this time i was over run, 272 gallons later. froze up and no sap
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Now that the way to go for big sap.