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Can anyone tell me why we are getting sugar in our permeate after switching from (5) 1.5x10 150gpd to (1) 4040 membrane?

This is the membrane we have
Max Water Commercial Extreme Low Pressure...

170 buckets, 70 on pipeline just a dribble and short term forecast isn’t great. This season is SLOW starting…

Buckets had a few inches of sap, had it not been frozen solid we would have boiled. We left it in the buckets and will pick on Monday afternoon, with the warmer temp Monday we are hoping to get a...

Checked my sugar bush and we don’t have much in the buckets, we tapped Saturday. Doesn’t look like we will be starting the evaporator this weekend.

Did you make it out this weekend?

Did you guys make it out this weekend?

We tapped on Saturday, 162 buckets hanging. Sunday we prepared a new ridge for 3/16” gravity pipeline, had to trim beech saplings out of the way, discovered there is a lot more snow in the woods than...

We are all in, 180+ taps with buckets. Was all done on snowshoes, the crew is tired tonight. The first trees tapped (about 11:00 AM) had about a quart by the time we finished. Now it’s the waiting...

Sunday we are planning on packing trails around the bush, if the forecast it favorable we will tap some trees. The snow depth appears to be more than last year for the beginning of season, we are...

The warm weather makes everyone get trigger happy but it looks like we will be waiting a couple weeks yet. Snow depth is going to be a battle again this year but for us at Sticky Bush it is a Journey...

Goose52
Here is the updated RO system, made it shine this time.

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It rough around the edges but once we get it working smooth we will dress the girl up for the dance.

We collected yesterday, 8 gallons off 140 taps , only the trees that had a direct exposure to the south had sap. There is still a LOT of snow in the woods up here. Hoping for a Saturday flow. We did...

Goose52
I’m not familiar with the High banks road, is there another name for it? I would like to make a sugar bush tour to see some other people’s inventions, if your open to a visitor?

Uptapper,
Are your maples on a south facing hill? If yes you may get some flow this weekend however the forecast isn't great for sap flow. We need sun and 40 deg days with near 20 deg nights and low...

Tapped 100 trees today, not much moving still a lot of snow in the Bush!

Im going to use this sap tracker to record my sugar Bush collections, if you look at the maps it will allow us to see what’s going on in other sugar bushes.
https://www.saptapapps.com
Give it a...

Checked buckets today around 5:00, only came up with 5 gallons on 100 taps. It was dripping but didn't start till late in the day. We put up another 20 buckets, hope this is he beginning of several...

I'm south of foster city, put 15 taps in last weekend just to test. Virtually no flow yet but going to tap 50+ on Sunday. Hoping for a great year as I had to skip last season.

Been too busy to tap this year and feeling envious of all you spending time in the sugar bush. The forecast looks very promising for the end of this coming week, if everything works out I'm going to...

great idea, hope more people do this.

Has anyone started tapping yet, looking at the 2 week forecast has me itching to get things started.

Liked your interview, great job!

We got 60 gallons today, looks like tomorrow should be a good run day. If this week works out I'll be processing 200 gallons on my new arch, can't wait!!!

Flowed good today, 50 gallons off 80 taps. The sugar is holding at 2%, does anyone know if the sugar content ever goes up? From what I understood it only goes down. Forecast looks better this week...