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Maple Hill,
Goat Milking?????????
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
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If you preheater is vaporlocking run a pipe from the high point in the coil back to the top of your head tank,, mine will blow and burp when it really gets going,,,
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
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Concerning vapor lock: I basically have two much slope in my preheater. The discharge may be about 15" higher than the inlet. Brandon suggested running the vent above the feed tank which we may do, but I eventually want to take re-sweat a couple of fitting and lower the discharg probably 8-10". We have not actually had vapor lock but I'm concerned we might with a low level in the feed tank.
By the way we added a nice little 415 gallon milk tank to the opreation Saturday. Thanks to Brandon for letting me know it was available at Brenneman's Mapel Syrup. Also picked up supplies so we can do a little more tapping.
Sap is running slow on Wednesday but added 24 new taps and they are running good. Shoud have a good volume of sap by the cool down Friday night. Hope to boil on Friday and Saturday.
We collected about 550 gal by Friday Morning and boiled it off Friday and Saturday. Canned just over 10 gal. Like Brandon says, the forcast is not good for sap runs this week. Temperature in Grassy Meadows was around -5 this morning. Hoping for the warm up to get it flowing again.
My buddies collected nearly 200 gal yesterday and hope for at least as much today. Wind is blowing, which may not be good. Should get some Saturday as well. I plan to be at the sugarhouse Saturday morning early and boil hard all day.
We collected just over 600 gallons and got it boiled off. We emptied out our evaporator because of some dark syrup we had made. We also had re-sanitized much of our tanks and lines. I helped. We made some much lighter syrup, probably still a medium but it sure looks and tastes good. Looking forward to the next run.
Collected and boiled off something over 300 gallons and canned about 6 Gallon. It looks like there will not be much sap running unless the weather man is wrong. Several days coming up look marginal.
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