I pulled all my taps yesterday, finished and bottled all the syrup I drew off wed and Thursday. Ended up with 40 gal syrup, all A light to A dark. I went to finish off the sweet in the pan this...
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I pulled all my taps yesterday, finished and bottled all the syrup I drew off wed and Thursday. Ended up with 40 gal syrup, all A light to A dark. I went to finish off the sweet in the pan this...
I collected 215 gal Sunday morning from Saturday's run, and another 100 gal last night from yesterday's run. Saturday's run was the best run I have ever seen.
Still not doing well down here in trumbull. Off my 90 sugar maple taps, between yesterday morning and this eve, only 35-40 gal. Even less from the Reds and silvers I have tapped. Last year, i did...
I just watched that vid, I have never seen a tree drip that fast, that was crazy; I was always thought a drip a second was dripping real fast because it will fill my sap sacks; but hat was unreal
I only got about 35-40 gal yesterday eve whe I collected, which puts my total for season at about 220gal. Last year at this time I had already collected and ran 700 gals off the same or a few less...
Yes.
I have a 2/5 smokey lake, takes a good 200 for me. At the end of last season, when I drew all the Sweet off from the pan, it was 6.25 gal of syrup; so on my pan (little larger than yours) I...
I just collected about 70 gals from my 115 taps just now, trees didn't start dripping till noon or so, but still dripping now. I have about 90 sugar maple taps, 20 red taps, and 7 silvers and all of...
I ended up with only about 25 gal from yesterday's run; hoping it turns on soon
I got about 50 gal from my 100 taps from yesterday's run, hoping today adds up to at least 100, looked like most were dripping pretty good
Ok. I will look into that variable speed control from harbor freight, and we do have a scrap yard nearby, I will see what kind of blowers they have there
Hey all,
I have a smokey lake 2'/5' hybrid on a block arch. Last year I used a cheap duct booster for my auf. However, those fans do not last. I would like to use a squirrel cage blower this...
I have been getting 2.5% on my sugar maples and about 1.5% on my red/silver maples.
Emptying my sacs into white buckets, you can see the red/silver sap looks clear like water but the sugar maples...
I got about 85 gallons off my 60 or so sugar maple taps, and about 20 or so gal from my 40 or so red/silver taps between 3:00 yesterday and noonish today
This was my first year with a thermometer in the pan, and a hydrometer to use. I calibrate dr he thermometer, and drew off at 216-217; at that temp the hydrometer didn't float in the cup. I pulled...
No, everything drips out. The drip tray under the preheater is tilted towards the back into drip edge and goes into a bucket at a steady stream. The hood itself, all the condensate drips out as...
O, and it boils pretty hard on the whole pan now; there is way too much steam to be able to really see in the pan, but it sounds like it is boiling pretty hard over they whole pan.
So I reworked the fire box, which is the first 20" or so, then 20" of ramp up to the flues, then about 20" of flat tot he back of the pan. I also bumped up the stack height to 14' and put a piece of...
2.5 on my sugar maples, about 1.5 on my reds
I emptied my sugar maple bags and buckets at about 2:00 yesterday. Some had some good ice and I didn't want to lose sap. Out of about 40-45 taps, I had about 30 gal sap, 2.6% sugar. Was dripping...
I put out another 18 taps on Monday, 85 total now, I used snow shoes when I got tired of sinking through the snow
I have been putting about an inch of tube onto the tap, I have found that extra holds it in place
Never tried that, but I wouldn't want to find out first hand
This is my first year hauling sap, I am used to hauling and towing wood. With that said, my 6000lb, 35hp kubota l3540 will tow my 6'/12' dump trailer heaped with logs, about 10k, pretty easy
I have the same hotblast 1300. Our house is 1150 square ft not counting the basement, where the furnace is; house built in the 1950s. Our house is always 70-75, even when 0 outside. I am sure...
I am pulling the pan off today. I have about 6 gal of sweet in the pan, so I figure I did somewhere between 65 to 70 gal in a little over 3 hrs once the pan was hot.
I am going to tweak the ramp...