Nothing fancy here. 1500’ vac line to woods is too small. Except for small (50 tap) new line I added this year newest drops are about 7 years old. Most of my 30p laterals are close to 20 years old.
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Nothing fancy here. 1500’ vac line to woods is too small. Except for small (50 tap) new line I added this year newest drops are about 7 years old. Most of my 30p laterals are close to 20 years old.
I usually get about .5. Last year was .4
Finished today. 534 gallons from 995 taps.
Neither one looks big enough for 2 taps
Tasted a little off while boiling this morning so emptied back pan to front and boiled it down with permeate in back. What we finished this evening tasted fine. Just dark. Ended with 952 off 2100...
Found 300 gallons of milky 1%. Let it go. Boiled in rig last night. Now for the cleanup.
Have to go check my tank but my sap guy opened the drain this morning as his smelled bad....
Made another 25 tonight. DR. Very heavy maple taste no off flavor. Still running lightly. Going to try again tomorrow....
Made 15 gallons of very dark. Froze good last night but did not run great. Not sure if it was strong south wind or if the trees are done. Still running. See what tomorrow brings. Still no off flavor...
Made 20 gallons of dark robust this morning from previous 24 hour’s sap. Finally stopped running at 29 early this morning with slush in releaser. Started running about 8:00. Hoping for more....
Light coating of snow last night. Only got down to 31°. Did not stop running. Got maybe 1/3 gallon/ tap. Supposed to be 28 tonight.......
Boiled twice yesterday. Close to 80 gallons. About 27 today. Today we finally made some dark robust. Not looking like a good freeze coming so not sure how much longer. Still filtering ok and flavor...
Forecast says low of 34° tonight. 31° at my releaser right now. Sap slowing down, but ran all last night.
Pretty good flow yesterday after freeze. Colder last night but not much sap today. I guess it’s over.
How much we make in VT has little bearing on the bulk price.
Many way a moderator can get it fixed so a quote/inch “ sign does not do that?
Not a drop from my trees today. Never thawed.
Which membrane did you go with?
Really good pressure washer.
Calling it quits. Had a slight off flavor last night. Will boil down sweet this afternoon. Be around .45 gpt.
Made almost 50 gallons of Dark today. Still no off flavors. We will try again tomorrow.
No peepers here yet. Made 51 gallons today. Brings us to .4 / tap. Started as dark then came back to amber. No off flavor yet....
Got down to 30 early morning. Started running by 8:30. Can't believe how well it ran today with temps in mid 30's and wind. Down to 31 now and still running a little. Should get a decent freeze...
Pulled in about 1 gpt since yesterday am. We hit 1/3 gallons/tap on syrup last night. Sugar going down.
We made about 60 gallons tonight and 50 on Sunday. Tanks are not empty but the RO needed clean so we will start again in the AM. Looks like it will run all night here. Already warming up.