I added about 80 taps yesterday and today. Real good flow this afternoon. Every hole i drilled was dripping immediately. Hope it runs through tonight. I've got some sap in "RO" now. Cooking soon....
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I added about 80 taps yesterday and today. Real good flow this afternoon. Every hole i drilled was dripping immediately. Hope it runs through tonight. I've got some sap in "RO" now. Cooking soon....
Had a good run last Tuesday when it got above 50 degrees. Mostly been waiting. Produced a gallon of very good syrup early in the month. I have about 50 trees tapped. I have a couple gallons in...
Only a crazy person would tap this early. Right?
I looked at 10 day forecast . I see every day above freezing with some promise of sunshine.
I tapped one small section today. 14 taps. I had good...
I had good flow for 3 days. Added a few trees each day at lunch hour.
Saving half for the future. Maybe 2 more weeks.
All done for now. It was a good opportunity to test new vacuum pump and...
I tapped one small section this afternoon.
I will be adding more this week when I have time.
Nothing flowing today, I'm hoping to see some sap tomorrow when it gets above freezing.
I bought an...
Good flow today. Adding more trees at lunchtime. Sunshine. 44 degrees. Yay! Hope to fire evaporator this weekend. My Bender Releaser and Harbor Freight vacuum pump are working. Need some tweaks but...
I don't know about you but I am looking forward to tapping in 2017.
I've been studying long range forecasts.
I'm in Monongalia County.
Thinking about tapping January 7 or 14.
Earlier than...
Greetings,
I just pulled my old Bender Releaser out of the box. Releaser is all there. But.
There was a jar with a floating ball in it that went in the vacuum line and made sure that no sap would...
RO working fine. I'm getting the hang of it. % up to around 7.
Thank you Matttuck Madness for the plans.
Fired evaporator yesterday for first run.
Excellent.
Just fired up new RO. Got my pressure up to 120.
Getting 2% sap. After RO I'm seeing 4%.
Thought I might do a little better.
Question: I know I will need to clean with hydrogen peroxide...
Dumb question?
This is my first time using quick connects with 1/4 tubing.
How the heck to you get them to disconnect without destroying them?
Built a system from hodorskib plans. Just ran my first test with some sugar water. Can't wait to try it out on some real sap. I turned up set screw on pump (Aquatec 8800). Can't get it above 103...
I can't take it. It was 45 and sunny at noon. I tapped 6 trees on my lunch hour. Sap is flowing. Will tap more in the next couple of days. Forecast doesn't look great.
That is 47 trees, but close to 80 taps. There are some really big old Sugar Maples here.
Leader Half Pint
Question. Anybody have an idea why all my syrup was dark last year? I've been making syrup for 18 years. Never saw a year like that. Of course it was extremely cold and I made syrup later than ever...
I'm thinking of waiting till Second Saturday in February. I started too early last year. But last year was a freak. Latest that I ever made syrup on 18 years. I'm in Northern WV now. Moved last...
January 29th
I've only got 35 taps in so far but what a day. Sap is flowing like crazy. I've been cooking since noon.
I am going to tap on January 27. Been doing the last weekend of January for several years.
I'm going to put in about 75 taps.
This year I put in an 800 ft mainline on high tensile.
No more...