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Parker,
I Finish On The Rig And Run Right Through The Filter Press. Once My Draw Is Done, I Check For Density And Send It Through And Into The Barrel. I Gave Up On Using A Finishing Rig Ages Ago, As You Tend To Cook More Grade Out Of The Syrup. The Plus Side Is That You Aren't Handling Your Syrup Again And It's 1 Less Thing You Need To Keep Track Of While You're Boiling.
Mapleworks- So how do you charge the press? Whats the tech?
I collected about 1600 gallons of 2% sap today.still cant find a leak in the vacuum woods,,,,,,,pumps will run all night....will start boiling around 10 tommrow,,,,I am praying it runs tommrow,,,,want to make 60 gallons in a day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,YOU GOTTA HAVE A DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Parker- I made 52 Gals on 1800 of sap today- you can do it, man! "BIGSAP" up here today as you say. Vacuum will run most of the night and looks like another gusher tomorrow!
Parker, I Just Put 4 Cups Of DE Into The Syrup And Recirculate It Back Into My Drawoff Tank For A Few Minutes And Then Into The Barrel. Hope All Is Going Well There ---We Made 115 Gallons This Past Weekend.
Parker,
Looks like we are on the home stretch and almost to the finish line about 20 miles west of you. It really hasn't run since Thursday last week. There is still some snow in the woods but the forecast for later this week is really warm. I'll keep the pumps on thru Wednesday as it is supposed to drop into the 20's the next coulpe night but I can't see getting much sap after Wednesday.
We are at 91 gallons bottled with maybe another 5 in the canner. Limping, stumbling and tripping our way to 100. I know you run colder over there so I hope it really lets lose for you this week. Keep us posted.
Mark
Made 53 gallons of very good tasting B,,,,,
Ran about 1/2 gallon a tap agine yesterday,held it till today,,I hate to start when I only have 1000 gallons on hand,,,much rather go thru 2000 at a whack,,it really takes 3 hours befor Marvin is really hammering,was surprised that Hill has been running better than rte.11,,,will try to start around 10,,,washed out syrup pan yesterday,,,thats loking a littel rough,,hopeing the distilled water I left in it the last 18 hours did the trick,,,,Still have not gotten any gallon per tap runs which surprises me,,,,,was too warm yesterday and will be too warm today,,,,but it has been freezing at nights,,,,still want to make another 400 gallons of syrup.................
You may be surprised at what you have today Parker. It froze pretty good again last night and it will be the day of the big run. Today is the 60 gallon day for you. Have fun making steam.
i see on the weather map you have been getting good freezes at night. had only two mild freezes in the last week. hope to hit the 2000 mark this afternoon. unless it freezes soon, my 1/2 gallon per tap is not going to happen this year, got everything on liquid ring pumps finally. my big condi thru a rod yesterday forcing the issue.still making a light DA
Jeff- how are you cooling the ring pumps? did you set up the antifreeze loops?
Made another 45 gallons of a very nice B,,,,pumps will run all night,,,lot of people around me talking about throwing it in,,,,all "GLOOM AND DOOM" well, mabey,,,but I am not breaking my stick off for a while after the NOAA weather report I just heard,,,if your in the neighborhood bring you sap over hear and Ill boil it..........I can finally see light out the end of my woodshed.....I think I am up to 316 gallons,,,wont be happy till 650,,,,,,,,