Hello all. Been a great year so far. Saps been coming in around 1.5 normal for us thou. Wood was running low so went out hunting for slab wood. Looks like few more runs then time to clean up. 23...
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Hello all. Been a great year so far. Saps been coming in around 1.5 normal for us thou. Wood was running low so went out hunting for slab wood. Looks like few more runs then time to clean up. 23...
Hi everyone. Been a crazy season here as well. Lower side on the sugar content. Lots of trees down in the woods. But all in all a fun time. The short seasons always remind me of farming it makes you...
Hello everyone, Here's to a great season. Tapped 150 yesterday and felt real good to be at it again. Need to fix a few more things in another section of woods. And we'll be tapping another 150 and...
Welcome back CPmaple, and Good luck too you. Things got a little hectic for sure last couple days, But all in all keep up pretty good. Sugar has been tad low here with no real freeze to speak of....
It's flowing..lol The sap has been coming in steady for over 48 hrs. The little RO will getting a work out tonight and tomorrow. Sugar is 2%, hoping the temps will drop down some to give a little...
Lit the fire last night, awesome to be back at it again. Sugar was low ,but to be expected as the sap was getting some time sitting in the tanks. Got the rig all plumbed up and filled with sweet....
Got a few hours in the woods last weekend, cleaned up some blow downs and added some more line. Good to be back at it for the year. Hopefully start tapping tomorrow, Keep up with the valentines...
Been a crazy season to say the least here. 3 weeks of fast and furious. Had one small area that was a problem, but with some changes to the way the mainline and it should work out fine. Bottled 30...
I upgraded too 2" x 3/8" angle 4 years ago and never had an issue yet. Trick is to fill them with fine ashes and let them pack right full. Doesn't matter if I run AUF or natural draft.
Been going pretty good here so far. Sugar started out at 1.8 then topped out at 2.2 and back down now at 1.5. So the RO is getting a work out, but working great for the money I have into it. Made all...
Finally got too boil Friday night. Great to be back at it for the season. Got the rig all sweetend up and made a couple gallons of amber on sunday afternoon. Sap started too roll in on Sunday around...
Looks like the cold weather is holding on. Got 220 in so for and should finish with about 300 altogether. Looked back in my notes the last several years and we have boiled atleast 2-3 times by now....
Hello everyone. Been busy here finishing up some loose ends in the tank/ro room. Checked over the woods on Monday and start drilling holes tomorrow. Hope everyone has an awesome season. Take care.
Had a good season here. The RO helped out a lot this year with all the low sugar sap. Worth its weight in gold..... Ended with 25 gallons of great tasting syrup so no complaints here. Took down two...
If we can hold out thru this warm up the temps looking good for the next couple of weeks. Boiled some 4 percent the other night, have to be on your toes with that stuff. Makes it nice to keep up...
Looks like It may thaw out today, need some sap before the weekend. Temps look real good for next two weeks and I hope its right. Be nice two get a little higher sugar content out of these runs, my...
Kinda the same here. Flooded for a couple days. Finally got my parts and pieces together for a small RO build I'm doing, Hope to try it out on next run. Let it flow......
Been going good so far. Even with this wacky weather. Sugar has came up some to around 1.7. The small RO has been working over time. Color and taste have been excellent this year. Take care.
Glad to be back at it. Had the rig up and running sat and sun for a few hrs each night and everything went great. Sugar is low 1.3-1.5 hope that comes around some. Thinking a bigger RO is on the list...
Got 2/3 of the taps in so far. Nice to be back at it again. Glad it was running some to clear out the lines and then in the tank they went. That's a first for me to have happen in the same day....
Crazy weather to say the least... Been up on the hill several times to remove branches and cut a few blow downs. Lost one good tree and had to fix some mainline that suffered that wrath. Hopefully...
Had a good year here on the hill. The weather was odd again for sure. The syrup this year was darker than usual but has a excellent flavor to it. Clean up is almost done and taps all pulled. Have a...
Had a good weekend at the shack. Had a good turn out on Saturday, but Sunday was a lot slower. Made a couple gallons of dark which is a lot for a tour weekend. Looks like maybe some more sap in the...
Been pretty busy here on the hill. Sugar content is running low. A lot of wood burned = not a lot of syrup made. Running the little RO constant now is helping with that. Overall not a bad year, just...
How's everyone doing out there?? This weather is odd to say the least..... 72 degrees here on Saturday and Sunday morning it's 28. I finished up everything Thursday night and cleaned out everything...