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I think the light syrup is the price you pay for good equipment... If you boil 80 gallons of sap for about 16 hours like I do,,, it's usually always got some colour at the end.
Must admit it takes alot of beverages when you are this slow, certainly we're well above a litre per tap if it's beer we're measuring instead of syrup!:D But then, for me it's just an excuse to socialize in the spring.
When my boys get bigger and I can build a shack right back at the bush I might be tempted to get serious as I could probably get up to around 500 taps.
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Just checked out your website and realize you had about the same size set up as I do now. Did you get darker syrup when you used the smaller set up?
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Nope
Last year we got a little medium.
5 years of light.
Of course we used to think light was good.
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interesting, I don't pull any of mine off while boiling,,,, I just keep feeding fresh sap into the pan until I get about 80 gallons boiled down then I put this into a turkey pot to finish the batch.
I think this year only my first batch would really qualify as light or fancy.
I'm curious to see how the batch of sap I got yesterday finishes... I usually feed the last real dark run to the father in law for doing all the work boiling all season.
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What the heck is going on. I've gotta go out and dump buckets, I thought I was done. nice clear sap no off smell or taste, I guess I'm boiling tommorrow night again.
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Yesterday was an OK day, it was the first time it ran since last Thursday, gathered 80 gallons. Barely froze last night at the most -1C, with about 3/4 of an inch of snow last night and this morning. Good day today, as we just finished gathering 120 gallons. 1 five gallon(US) pail with two spiles on dropline going into it from one tree was overflowing at 4:30 this afternoon, gathered at 5:00 yesterday. Probably will be a good run tomorrow, may run Wednesday and that looks like that'll be it as it's supposed to be 26C on Friday.
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Sap run all night Sunday here. I left the vacuum on for what I figured would be my last run of the season and collected more sap overnight then all day Sunday. Nothing was running today but it is down to -5 here, maybe one more run Tuseday!
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I had a fair bit yesterday, but might have been from Sunday evening, about 45 gallons.
Sap is now crystal clear.
-4.5 this morning and the sun is out so should be another run today.
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Boiled the rest of the sap from the weekends run. Was around 700 IMP gals. Got just over 15 IMP gals. of amber syrup.
Barely froze here last night. The lines started to trickle in the afternoon. Hamilton says -2 tonight, but I don't believe it will do me any good.
Going to gather the dribbles tomorrow and then boil. I'm close to another run of syrup. Then I'll clean the feeder tank and my gathering tank and haul water back to finish what's in the pans. I'll finish on Thursday, before the big heat wave hits.
Hopefully I'll get all the buckets in and some of the lids/spiles before Easter.
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We got a decent freeze last night. Wife brought in over 1000 USG so far and its still running. She says there's at least 200 to come already in totes out there. She's dead on her feet. Tests at 1.9 to 2% crystal clear.
Our trees are charmed. Wish I could say the same about the evaporator operator. Chinese fire drill 513 this year. Put a big bucket under the draw off to empty it and clean it.
Went outside. Came back in to find the floor covered. Forget to turn off the valv from the flu pan.
