We are going to try a visit again tomorrow. Working up near Cold Spring Lodge. Huge sap the last 24 hours! Looks like we are going out with a flood of sap the next bunch of days.
We are going to try a visit again tomorrow. Working up near Cold Spring Lodge. Huge sap the last 24 hours! Looks like we are going out with a flood of sap the next bunch of days.
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'll be collecting in the morning boiling by noon. another barrel and a bit today, still medium.
froze last night! saps coming in well and barrels are being filled in the saphouse. almost in a rhythm with the trees. have a nice mention in an article on sugaring.
http://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvall...87&storyPage=2
Game over. 200 gallons - best year ever. 800 taps gravity, 50 buckets.
Hardly any B grade. Lines are clean and the pans are soaking.
Time to go fishing.
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
no boiling today, down to 2,000 taps flowing because of vacuum. should fill another barrel tomorrow, then maybe a freeze this weekend.
good freeze last night, will be boiling tomorrow! I feel the end is this week for me.
Let us know your grand total when you finish! We ended last Wed with 558 gallons for the season. Tom told me that they were not buying any buddy syrup this year so I pulled the plug as soon as it started to turn. Put in 85 birch taps today and hope to be around 400 by Wed night. Building an air injection for the 2x4 we plan to boil on. Should be interesting. Last year it was 80 degrees and made the birch end in a few days. Hopefully we will get 2 weeks out of it.
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!
last sap in today, 1,100 gals 1.4%. should end up with 1,000 finished gals. not a bumper crop here, but enough made to keep being a full-time maple producer for another year.
Getting tanks, pumps, etc into the woods and general getting ready stuff. Tapped a tree yesterday, not much sap flow yet. I think the trees are still a bit cold from the -15 not long ago. Start tapping Monday just to have everything ready when it does break loose.
We started tapping today, got in about 400. I'm using the CV2's this year. So far I like them.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
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