warmed up and I'm back to sugaring. think I'll go to May 3rd this year!
warmed up and I'm back to sugaring. think I'll go to May 3rd this year!
Did it warm up enough for any sort of run yesterday? 200 gallons was it between 3-5 so the pans will stay cold for a couple of more days at least. We are working in Phoenicia today and though we might pop by on the way home if you were going to be around.
Millbrook Maple
Catskill Mountains
Saphouse - Somewhere in witness protection area.
2.5 X 8 Smoky Lake pans on grimm oil fired arch
RO - Ecochem with 2 codeline vessels and 2 MES vessels.
2000-3000 Taps depends on the season.
Always looking for more sap!
collected around 500 gals last night, but waiting to boil till I have a couple thousand gals tomorrow. I'm in Oliverea till it gets to freezing then turn of the pumps and go to woodstock. I should be around till 8 or so.
I drove by around 1:30 and didn't see any signs of life around there. I did poke around your sap ladder for a few minutes and then got all excited and ran home to see if we had any sap. Only have about 700 gallons in the tank. Not enough to RO and boil so we will hopefully get some more tomorrow and be ready to make syrup again. We will be working on and off around the area the next few weeks so I'll try to stop by another day. Here's to 3 weeks of perfect sapping weather!
Millbrook Maple
Catskill Mountains
Saphouse - Somewhere in witness protection area.
2.5 X 8 Smoky Lake pans on grimm oil fired arch
RO - Ecochem with 2 codeline vessels and 2 MES vessels.
2000-3000 Taps depends on the season.
Always looking for more sap!
I was up on the mountain chasing leaks. all 4 vac.pumps are pulling 20, till tomorrow when something happens to the tubing. I ended up running 1.000+ through the ro to get a head start on tomorrow. sugars up to 2.4 so I am a happy man.
Decent runs the last two days in the valley. Finished 11 gallons Monday and 13 last night, back to light amber with noticeably more sugar sand than before the freeze up. The extended forecast looks perfect. 80 gallons for the season to date. Boil on!
Riverdale Farm & Forest
4th generation producer
around 850 taps for 2016
3x10 Grimm Lightning raised flue - wood fired w/ blower
7" Wes Fab short bank press
Herefords/White Parks
Berkshire pigs
my buckets runneth over, and almost my tanks. still drawing light amber.
still alive a kicking. not huge sapflow but enough to keep me very busy. close to 800 for the year so far with good weather for the next week at least. 1,000 + looking like a real possibility. went to dark yesterday. good sappin to those still going, if your done stop up and say hello. I will put you to work though!
Looks like we finally got a season started around here. We had sap for a week straight and most of it was in the last 3 days. We collected around 13000 gallons and made 218 gallons of Medium and Dark. Really cold today and tomorrow and it looks like we will get another 7 day run after that!
Millbrook Maple
Catskill Mountains
Saphouse - Somewhere in witness protection area.
2.5 X 8 Smoky Lake pans on grimm oil fired arch
RO - Ecochem with 2 codeline vessels and 2 MES vessels.
2000-3000 Taps depends on the season.
Always looking for more sap!
Looks like a final 4 day blast here in the river valley before an extended stretch with no freezing temps. Should hit 200 gallons on the year, best in a long time.
Riverdale Farm & Forest
4th generation producer
around 850 taps for 2016
3x10 Grimm Lightning raised flue - wood fired w/ blower
7" Wes Fab short bank press
Herefords/White Parks
Berkshire pigs