Checked my 3/16 this morning, not a trickle. Lines are full, maybe with some sun??? My buckets are out of the woods and pulling the taps out tomorrow. Time to clean up.
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Checked my 3/16 this morning, not a trickle. Lines are full, maybe with some sun??? My buckets are out of the woods and pulling the taps out tomorrow. Time to clean up.
Bringing this thread back to life as I was too busy last season to post. Not a great year for me as I missed the first 3 runs of the season. Best run of the season was around 200 gallons in 24 hrs...
Wurmdert,
How many taps are you putting on a line? I am converting my bush from buckets and have a few 3/16 lines set up. My longest has 25 taps and pulled 25" of vacuum during the few runs I had....
I agree with Peeper about your stack height. I used a 5 pan block arch for first couple of years and had two 5" pipes with a stack length of 10'. Pay special attention to get any ash or pan burn out...
I know not everyone is done yet, but I think most of us small guys are as my tree's quit and budded this past weekend. I was just wondering how everyone made out. I collected 502 gallons of sap from...
Just got home and checked a few of my buckets. Looks like a half way decent run today, I picked up 5 gallons from 8 taps. Some of the tree's were still running. Windy and feels cold here tonight,...
Checked my buckets yesterday and not much from Sunday on. Most were empty and I picked up only around 20 gallons. Finished off my boil from Sunday and got a little over 4 gallons of syrup. I hope...
27 here last night. Let's hope the tree's respond. It does not look favorable for the rest of the week. Looks like my goal of 25 gallons is in the crapper.
I collected 145 gallons from Thursday to Saturday on 220 taps. Only 32 and cloudy last night and no run at all today. Most of my buds are still tight except for my silver maples. Might have couple of...
Ran decent here today in Lisbon. Looks like I averaged 1 gallon per tap, not bad with temps only dropping to 32 last night. With tonight's mid 20's and mid 40's tomorrow I expect the best run of the...
Only thing running here today was me chasing my buckets from the wind!! Boiled for about 3 hours last night and finally finished a gallon and a half of nice light syrup. Now that the pans are...
Just checked my buckets, a few knocked over from the wind and a couple that were on the other side of the field. Most are running kinda slow and my oldest ones tapped not so great. Looks like I only...
adk1
I wish I had MORE in common with you. All my taps are drops into 5 gallon buckets and my shack is only 10x12. I stil have alot of work to do in my bush before I run main lines. Working on that...
The cold snap at the first of the week put the trees back to sleep. It takes a few warm sunny days to get them back. Tomorrow should be better??? Lets hope. I have 175 taps in and only have about 10...
Thanks for the info. I have a big learning curve ahead. I need more boil time to get used to how this evaporator works. I can't wait for the season to really start.
My pans are still cooling and the sap temp is still around 85. I ran it for about 3 hours. 2 hours hard after it warmed up. My back pan has about 1 inch above the flues, front pan 2 inches. Should I...
Just did my first boil with my new 2x6 Lapierre with 5" raised flues and am not sure if I should drain my pans. The next few days the temps are going to be mid 20's during the day to low teens at...
Revi,
Do you usually drain your pans in this weather or leave them? New rig for me and I don"t want to mess it up.
Everything shut down today. Got only 25 gallons yesterday and ended up with only 65 total to boil. Ran the evap for about hour and a half after it warmed up and ran out of sap. Not enough to draw...
Not much sap from Tuesday on. It is running today and the sun just came out. If it stays out till dark I should get at least 30 or 40 more gallons for my boil tomorrow. Got to get the sap I have out...
My silver maples are running pretty good. I got around 15 gallons from 8 taps in 2 days. I collected about 25 gallons from around 60 taps on my reds and will get the other 100 taps collected...
Not much going on here in Lisbon. I put in 90 taps yesterday and about 30 were running when I drilled them. Checked on them today and not much sap. I think the afternoon wind kept them cool and dry....
efoyt
I put in around Feb 5th last year when we had a 3 or 4 day warm up. After that it froze up solid for a couple weeks. My taps ran, just not that great. I added 50 more deeper in the woods in...
I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on when to tap. Weather forecast looks good for the next few days and then cold till 15th. I put in way to early last year and my taps dried up. I...
Just did my first test boil with water on my new 2x6 Lapierre raised flue and need advice on how to clean the pans. Ran it about a hour after it warmed up and I flushed them with clean water after...