Great info guys, thanks! I should have been a bit clearer; would do at least 5/16" up to the tank from the Shurflo below if I go that route and good points on draining the line. It may be easy to run...
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Great info guys, thanks! I should have been a bit clearer; would do at least 5/16" up to the tank from the Shurflo below if I go that route and good points on draining the line. It may be easy to run...
Looking at tapping a new woods next season and the layout makes it somewhat challenging for collection and transport. I did search through a lot of threads. Information was varied and not quite...
Yeah, sure does. Hopefully you get some great production!
I just hope all my silvers aren't done. Having 34 sugars hooked up with that forecast could be pretty darn good on its own. Next year's...
I think my big yard silvers have turned. Noticed something just a tiny bit off on the initial taste of what I boiled last night. But, it lasts for barely an instant and then the flavor is awesome....
I need to make some dark stuff :) Have some folks waiting for it.
Sitting at about 10.5 gallons of sap per tap right now. Not atrocious, but not great. But, still going to keep chugging along!
Sap flowing again. Tested the silver maple sap off my vac lines yesterday and it still is making great syrup. Boil tomorrow and then clean up until the next chance of sap; forecast is showing...
Yup, all I've been doing is cleaning things, over and over and waiting for freezes.
Will see what this weekend brings and if it's worth keeping the sugars hooked up for later March. Two freezing...
Yeah, this next week is going to be not too fun.
Boiled this morning and finished things up and bottled again. Right at 20 gallons for my 96 taps.
Oddly enough, the trees have started to run a...
Well, the forecast here really blows. Should get a decent run here today into tomorrow, but yeesh. With the amount of heat in the system, I'm not sure how my silvers don't try to grow leaves in the...
Over across the lake from you, I have given up on the long-range forecasts. All year I've watched the stuff more than two weeks out look nice and cold, but then inch up once we get to about 10 days...
It is way, way, way better than a straight cone filter. Syrup goes through considerably faster. It also results in less prefilter usage from clogging; and pulling a prefilter is a better experience...
Good test. I check my big yard silvers as the season gets along as they are the first to see leaf bud swelling. Then I know the woods silvers are a few days away from it. Can't tell by looking at the...
Noticed these on their site a while back and couldn't stomach the price. Yikes.
https://www.smokylakemaple.com/product/plug-with-handle/
Can find the same silicone plugs for very cheap. Just...
Thanks for press feedback. Someday! If I add more taps next year, the funding for one should increase. Unless it's a really good year, I'm not clearing that much :)
Got all caught up yesterday in...
Too bad uploading of pictures doesn't work here any more. I'd guess you're seeing the flower buds of the silvers; which will come out first. Those do not mean "buddy" sap. Leaf bud growth will mean...
Yeah, it does make sense to avoid total catastrophe!
Floats/float boxes are worth their weight in gold. I put a Leader Half Pint float in my Smoky Lake 2x4 divided pan and it works great (and...
Looks like their product page says those pans also have 4.5" deep flues.
https://www.smokylakemaple.com/product/customize-a-hybrid-hobby-pro-pan/
Can you swing the 2x5' hybrid pan and then sell...
Realized some of my first bottling is crystalizing in the bottles. If I had to guess, the refractometer is out of whack a bit. Was delaying getting a hydrometer, but not anymore. Ordered up one from...
Nice reports!
Hope we can all easily ride out the impending heat wave(s). Hoping March gets more normal, but the way things are going....just going to do what I can (which will be lots of...
Good advice above on the power requirements.
I run three separate diaphragm pumps on old PC power supplies. One for the 5/16 tubing runs. One for running a transfer pump to my head tank and...
Boiling now. Amazing run finishing up. Way over 2 gallons per tap and at 2.1% sugar avg across all my trees....mostly silvers.
Nice!
Been a good run yesterday into today here too. Going to boil tonight as I should have over 200 gallons to get through.
Hoping I can leave some sap in the tank tomorrow and get it to...
7.7 gallons bottled up yesterday. Nice light stuff.
Lots of very warm days in the forecast. Going to be fun keeping crap clean.
Hope the fix is that simple!
Will probably boil again this afternoon; don't have a huge amount (80g) that came in after Wednesday's boil and then bottle up this first batch Sunday.
Just one kid, and he helps when he wants to :) Teenager... He has homework a lot of nights and really is laser focused on doing well in school so I don't get in the way of that. He's going to help...