Haven’t been flooded with sap yet, but have been collecting 70-120 gallons of sap daily when the temps are right. Evaporator is real sweet and ready to push out more syrup.
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Haven’t been flooded with sap yet, but have been collecting 70-120 gallons of sap daily when the temps are right. Evaporator is real sweet and ready to push out more syrup.
Glad some folks are doing well!! Couple of decent runs and I'll be happy.
Think maybe we'll change things up for next year and finally graduate to tubing on gravity runs. Washing 200+ buckets is...
Hello all, been a while since I posted here. Feel like we missed the season by tapping last week. Boiled twice on slow runs.
Really need the forecast to come true for good weather next week. ...
Cheers everyone!
Weather didn't feel right three weeks ago when I usually tap. Finally, tapped (about a 175 on buckets so far) sat/sun. and now have a couple hundred gallons on sap. Probably...
Hello-
We just finished our first batch of medium for the season. Surprisingly long run of light for our trees in Feeding Hills as well.
I actually don't remember ever getting as much light as we...
It's been a wild start up but things actually came together this week. We had a new 2x6 Leader Patriot that had to be set up, a redesigned feed tank system to plumb and two weeks less to work than...
Hello everyone-
I've been very close to buying a quality used 2x6 for a month now and have missed a couple of chances.
At this point we're really considering going new and have been shopping...
Great to hear what everyone says. After tossing the idea around I think we may go for it.
Thanks folks
I'm looking for any info or opinions people have about the Leader Patriot 2x6. The set of pans are a few years old and are on and older arch that needs work. Our operation truelly needs a larger and...
First week of March and we're up and fully operational!
My brother and father washed buckets and tapped 200+ trees while I was on vacation in Feb! (I almost feel bad)
I returned about a week...
It can be tough to handle that much sap on a 2x4. Fortunatly my brother can boil most of the day during the week and then we go for broke on the weekends until we are caught up.
So far we've...
Hope everyone is well rested and ready to go.
We tapped last week and have gotten two decent runs. Finished 4.5 gallons yesterday and still have a decent amount of concentrate to start up with on...
We stopped in the middle of the week. Out of wood and the sap was getting that look to it. I'm not sad because fishing season is here!!!
Overall the season was outstanding, with many huge runs...
The first finish of the season I got the idea that it may be a good to refridgerate it. After I packed the down stairs fridge with 5 gallons worth three people went crazy saying that I shouldn't...
Sounds like you're in the same situation we're in on the other side of town. We got hit hard with good runs and got backed up a bit. My brother has been coming over and boiling all day. If he...
Thanks for the info
I'm looking into a couple of the suggestions
Hello folks- I got a couple questions for everyone.
This year I'm up to 175 taps and will top out at 200 within the next couple of years. I don't forsee going any higher. When I started out I...
I no sooner tapped and I was loaded with sap. Three days of decent run from mon through wed and I ended up with 5.5 gallons of Fancy! Trees have stopped now but this coming week may be real good.
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As always we started tapping just because we thought it was the right thing to do. By the time we finished with about 125 taps we finally realized it was running enough that we had better stop and...
I wanted to thank everyone again for all the help. My evaporator worked great and we made just over 25 gallons of syrup!!!
Now that it looks like its over I have a few wrap up questions for...
My brother found a nice aluminum stock pot with a handy draw off at the bottom and it looked like just the ticket for a finish kettle that I could bottle off of.
Does anyone know if there is a...
Just finished a gallon and a half of Fancy. Sure was great tasting stuff!! I made a fine mess in the kitchen too, just so things were official.
Just looking at my notes from the past couple...
Hi there,
We just tapped in Feeding Hills and managed a short boil today.If I can get a few more buckets I may throw a dozen more taps out.
If we get a spare minute we should tour each others...
I'm back again guys!
I did my test boil Saturday and it went fine. Today we collected about fifty gallons of sap and started up!
By the time the feed tank went dry we backed the fire off and...
I set out one hundred taps between the last two days and I've collected more than I really expected. Last weather report I saw looked like some sugar'en was on the way.
Good luck everyone!!!