Boiled out the evaporator and have it all filtered and in bottles.
Total for the season: 73 gallons 7 pints. It was a real
struggle getting there. I feel that this was the toughest season
since I...
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Boiled out the evaporator and have it all filtered and in bottles.
Total for the season: 73 gallons 7 pints. It was a real
struggle getting there. I feel that this was the toughest season
since I...
HowardR: 2013! We tapped the beginning of February and finished
up around April 2! Made 101 gallons of syrup. It was the season that
went on forever, almost had to tear the siding off the house...
Made about 2 1/2 gallons of syrup tonight! Tomorrow is it!
Going to gather in the afternoon, get it in the evaporator and pull
the plug! We’ve been scratching real hard the last two weeks,
and...
Not bad here too! Boiling and bottling today! Probably wait until tomorrow to gather again.
Collected 40 gallons 2 percent yesterday from a friends
trees, today 75 gallons 2.3 percent from ours. Plus 50
gallons of 1.2 percent from our reds on vacuum. We have put
out 25 new buckets and...
Howard R; I believe the warm weather has caused a bacteria load
in my lines that just can’t be overcome. I redrilled my taps early last
week and haven’t seen much improvement. It hasn’t been very...
Still in the game here in Central Pa! We made about 3 gallons of
syrup tonight. Most of the tubing is shut down. We did a little
bucket reshuffle, and put a few more out on some fresh trees....
Still trying to hang in here! Temps are great! Flow not so much!
Hopefully not the end as we are only at 3/4 crop.
Maple tour went well! About 65 people Saturday and maybe
40 today! Great time talking to some sugar makers and all
the others that came! Many people said that they were here before
and just like...
Don’t give up! Learn from your mistakes and move on!
Going to spend the morning getting ready for our maple tour
weekend. Wash the front pan, wipe down the steam hood,
and get the fire ready to go. Looks like a wintry mix coming this
afternoon....
Still in the game here! Somewhere around 2800 gallons of sap
so far. It took until 3:00 pm to loosen up yesterday, but
then ran at one gpt until freeze up. Weather is looking better
for the next...
The same here in central Pa; gpt after 3:00 pm
Sap is running fairly good today, with a 65 degree high! Gonna
wait until tomorrow morning to collect, and boil. Right now at
2400 gallons of sap processed, possibly half way there! Hoping
the...
Fair amount of sap today, hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Made about 4, gallons tonight, probably filter and bottle
tomorrow night after boiling.
Today we filtered and bottled all the syrup we have
made so far. Boiled the evaporator out with permeate
while bottling. Tomorrow morning flush a couple of tanks
and dump the rain and old sap out...
Look up my post on a bender releaser from 2016
This was the way that I got mine to work the best!
Pictures included
Been hard at it the last two nights. Last night made about 7 gallons
and tonight about 5 gallons. Looks like a slow down until the weekend.
Thursday I want to filter and bottle what we have made ,...
Fourth boil today, closing in on a thousand gallons so far.
Really like the ro! It’s pretty easy on the wood pile!
Looks like tomorrow and Tuesday are going to be big!
Hopefully a little colder up here!
First boil today! Also first day using my 4” single post homemade
Ro! Cut about 2 1/2 off my boil time, and didn’t use very much wood.
Tomorrow, I have to put my buckets out and then in the...
Got 50 taps in yesterday morning on a shurflo, and last night
17 taps on 3/16. Both were running good. 25 degrees this morning, got
115 put in at the house. Tonight will turn the vacuum on. Need...
I bought a thermocouple off of ebay a couple of years ago, I’ll
try and find where it came from. My stack temps are only 425
or so. Any more than that and I can’t keep the sap in the pans!
I just...
Put about 100 taps in this afternoon on 5/16 gravity.
A few were dripping a little. Will probably hook them up to
the tank middle of next week. Deep freeze this weekend,
after that I believe the...
Today I set a tank for a shurflo solar system. Went from 2
55 gallon drums to a 150 gallon rubbermaid tank. Not so much for
extra volume , but being able to lower my lines coming in about 8”...