Ran 51 gallons of sap today, finished with a gallon of filtered syrup. Will bottle tomorrow, and get ready for the next batch on Wednesday or Thursday.
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Ran 51 gallons of sap today, finished with a gallon of filtered syrup. Will bottle tomorrow, and get ready for the next batch on Wednesday or Thursday.
Tapping this weekend unless long term forecast xhanges. Still debating on getting a new pan or not...
Ended up with 42 gallons to run for my first boil. Used up nearly all my chopped wood, guess I'll have to break out the splitting maul and deal with the big rounds that I've been avoiding all winter....
Tapped on Sunday (a day later than I wanted) and as of yesterday am sitting on 36.5 gallons of sap.... Over a third of last year's production. 16 taps, 4 of which don't produce jack. Haven't...
I've updated the video with the corrections, thanks everybody!
https://youtu.be/2EUM15HFYSU
20 taps. A couple of them are monsters, but only one with 3. Most the others have two. I have one giant by the creek that has about 9 trunks growing from the base, but I only tap a max of 3 of...
I thought that number was a bit conservative also...I read '2 years' in some information source that I was using during research and stuck with it.
NBC Sports Plus on Thursday, Feb 6th at noon. Fox Sports North and Midwest on Feb 8th. CS100 around the same time, we air at different times every day of the week. Tons of other networks throughout...
Thanks Dr. Tim! I'll see what I can do to correct those!
Hey Folks! You all were so helpful to me last season as I jumped into this crazy hobby, including providing some images for a how-to video that I filmed. I've finally finished editing it, and...
I tap only silver maples in the yard, and the syrup definately has a different taste than what I can buy in the store. So much so that I bought a bottle of the "good stuff" last season (my first...
Neat! I filmed the process yesterday for a segment that will air next year on Midwest Outdoors. Looks like it was the last run of the season, so really hope I remembered everything....no time for...
Thanks for the heads up on the bottles! I was already a little worried about them, since the cap is so shallow, though I think the shrink wrap will help. The bottles are probably going to mostly for...
Well, the modifications *mostly* work. The sheet metal worked beautifully, but I didn't take into account the extra height added from my makeshift gaskets. However, now that I'm burning my good wood...
I'm excited to really get going, but worried that I had tapped too early and my holes are going to be drying up soon. Long term weather forecast was looking good, but changed back to cold when I...
The stack is 6' diameter, 5' from the boot. I have another 5 to add to it, just need to trim off a branch to do it (couldn't find my pole saw).
I picked up a sheet of steel yesterday to close off...
I'm not quite what this means. But i can tell you that the patio block at the back of the arch is about 3.5" below the pan. Behind the last pan is open space until it hits the wall. Perhaps I need...
Hey Gurus, need some help. I finally got my arch put together and took it for a test drive yesterday. The back 2 pans won't boil.....the third pan will kinda simmer, but that's it. Pan 2 boiled...
Almost done with the evaporator...running out to home depot to pick up the last components I need. Building it out of random stuff I found at a scrap metal recycling place near me, and whatever I can...
I've got 2 trees left, just need a couple more buckets from the bakery. I'll have 18 taps on 12 trees. Evaporator should be done tomorrow or Saturday. Still figuring out how I'm going to...
I put in two taps in the front yard on Saturday to use as a gauge of when to do the rest. Both were dry went drilled in, but one made about a quart of sap yesterday. That particular tree, however,...