Tim so we have alot of green down here in Cornwall it was 26 degrees last night been below freezing for over 24hrs. How do you think the trees are faring? Is this like 2012?
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Tim so we have alot of green down here in Cornwall it was 26 degrees last night been below freezing for over 24hrs. How do you think the trees are faring? Is this like 2012?
Amen on the rain brother!!!
Tim I assume you have a 200 amp service What are you upgrading it to?
I'm thinking I may have to do as well tripped my service breaker once when everything was running full bore
I found this article very interesting gave me a new prospective on tapping. looking at a tree with three different bands of tapping makes sense to me. and I think varying the length of the drop...
AMEN!! same feeling here!!
Made it to a full crop with last nights boil. It boiled beautifully and made a nice amber but the smell and taste was metabolism, looked at roadside trees this morning and a definite bud swelling...
We're getting 2.3-2.5 here as well Keep in mind that you have two brand new membranes and the sap is sweet (they are not having to work as hard)also the temperature was almost ideal for max RO...
love it !!!!
I would say its time for some big money investors set-up some new packing facilities with a fully staff sales team (rather then backing more mega production )
The current packers can only do so much!
We started drawing at 218 I love how this business is constantly changing from day to day and year to year Keeps you on your toes and your brain engaged GO WITH THE FLOW!
This is a hell of a run looking like 3gpt in 24hr period. Sugar content is kind of sad 1.6to 1.7 Guess we need a hard freeze up and not just prologue 30 degrees I can see this is a high volume low...
30% here as well I don't see any big freeze ups or heat waves coming so should be productive at least through middle of March Hope there isn't to much wind damage after this storm gets out of here...
First boil yesterday Sap is 1.5-1.7 sweeten pans and made 100 gals. have small crack in one of the RO post hope to get fixed on Thursday My biggest problem is the drain in the RO room is clogged...
I've been replacing a section of woods that had the oldest tubing and re designing the layout hope to be done soon and start tapping the first weekend in Feb.
though it sure seemed I should be...
Had a low of 24 at 1:24 am still 27 now sun is on the solar panels and my maple tress Life is good! Have a great weekend everyone!!
sounds like Joe is still out to lunch trouble is people will believe this hoky just like the BS going around the political world
This weather is definitely getting me worked up! However I'm committed to finishing my last expansion for this woods we're putting in drops now, Hope to have 1200 or so new taps. The weather has...
We had to go to a function on Friday night so held sap over til Sat was worried because it was so warm. Had 13,600 gallons of sap squeezed it to 13% and boiled it in 7.5 hrs and made 416 gallons...
I think the chewing varmints have they own neighborhoods because they chew on certain mainlines and don't touch the next one up go figure
Hey Flat thanks for dropping in on Sunday I appreciate it We had quite a few flat landers stop on Sunday (no pun intended) folks from NJ,PA NY IN VA and even an older gal from Germany who we treated...
I don't think we can hang our hat on anything in sugaring except we love to do it!!
I disagree doc I've been sugaring over 40 years and have seen great runs with west and north winds I.E. 2013 season almost all north winds that year. and very poor runs with south and east winds...
averaged about a gallon per tap over a 24-36 hr. period my south facing woods all but stopped running Really looking forward to some west and north winds
Well that was a fun weekend (I think) started gathering sap Saturday night around 9:00pm did not want it to freeze up in the tanks with very cold temps forecasted for that night and sunday Had...
First do not flood your pan you should have about half of the level when its cooled down compared to your running level at full song. I pull off two pails of sweet as I'm shutting down and close...