sounds about right. It was running okay yesterday when I was tapping my bush in Littleton. Another producer in Lyman got 150 gallons of sap from 400 field trees from sat/sunday's run.Originally Posted by maple maniac65
sounds about right. It was running okay yesterday when I was tapping my bush in Littleton. Another producer in Lyman got 150 gallons of sap from 400 field trees from sat/sunday's run.
2012: Probably 750 gravity taps and 50 buckets.
600 gal stainless milk tank.
2 - 100 gallon stock tanks
one 30 gal barrel
50 buckets
3' x 10' Waterloo Raised Flue wood fired evaporator w/ open pans.
12" x 20" Filter Canner
Sawmill next to sugarhouse solves my sugarwood problem
Gather with GMC 3500 2wd Pickup w/ 425 gallon Plastic Tank.
Been tapping here in Lyman NH since 1989 but I've been sugaring since 8 years old in 1968.
we gathered late in the day yesterday. About 1400 gallons from 1200 of our 1350 taps. Rest we will pick up this morning. 2.2% sugar. very little sugar sand. all done in 5 hours. 30 gals but don't know the grade yet.
was 57 deg. when I refilled vac pump at 11:45pm last night. Its 31 deg. now at 6:45. wicked front came through last night- some kind of windy...
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
About 750 gals gathered by late afternoon yesterday. Held it over night so we can boil this afternoon and put the signs out at the end of the road. Bucket rodeo yesterday morning after the front came through overnight on Thursday.
up to 110 gals. Nice medium in the barrel last night. 28 and snowing here this morning. Supposed to be 50 tomorrow- go figure.
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
Hey Eric,
Sounds like everything is going good for you this season. Read about the changes you made to the evaporator, sounds awesome!!!!
Nothing doing up here on the mountain, just way too cold still.
Good luck this season!!!
Doug
"Sap Suckers Sugar Shack"
2009 20 taps, buckets & plastic jugs, evap on fireplace in yard, finish on stove, total yield of 1-3/4 gallons
2010 14 taps, plastic jugs, homemade 55 gal barrel evap, finish on stove, total 1 gallon
2011 55 taps, (42 on buckets, 13 on tubing-gravity), homemade 55 gal barrel arch with 24" x 32" flat pan, finish on stove, total 12 gallons
2012 90 taps (all on tubing), homemade 55 gal barrel arch with 24" x 32" flat pan, temporary "sugar shack"
surprise run yesterday. forecast was for it to not get out of the mid 30's, but buckets were running strong by 11am. Got pumps running- probably got 200 gals off our 400 tap bush, and 175 gals from 140 buckets. Will boil that in later today. Few other local sugarmakers stopped in yesterday- nice to chat and catch up on how other folks seasons are going. Made 25 gals yesterday- hope for another 20 plus today. Tonight looks like last freeze for the week. I sure hope they are wrong...
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
froze just barely on Sunday night. Had our 1st, and probably only, 2000 gallon sap day of the season this year. Had the RO and evaporator running pretty much straight from 2pm till 12 midnight. Had filter press issues on Sunday night but figured it out yesterday and put 55 gallons in to stainless last night- no bad for one set of papers on that 7inch short bank. Season total so far is 181 in stainless and probably another 25 still to finish. Hoping to hang on here in Andover...
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
Yeah, yesterday was a 575 gallon sap day for me, hopefully not the last. I did notice there was not much glop in the filters. Usually a couple big handfulls plops out of the prefilter when I dump it on the snow, but there was none of that yesterday.
2012: Probably 750 gravity taps and 50 buckets.
600 gal stainless milk tank.
2 - 100 gallon stock tanks
one 30 gal barrel
50 buckets
3' x 10' Waterloo Raised Flue wood fired evaporator w/ open pans.
12" x 20" Filter Canner
Sawmill next to sugarhouse solves my sugarwood problem
Gather with GMC 3500 2wd Pickup w/ 425 gallon Plastic Tank.
Been tapping here in Lyman NH since 1989 but I've been sugaring since 8 years old in 1968.
hadn't gathered since wednesday afternoon, so today we got 500 gallons from Hattens (we pulled the reds there, so are probably down to 350 taps there) and 125 from Putney(down to 250 there since we pulled reds here also). They are our only two vac bushes this year and the only ones that seem to be doing anything. Sap is a bit milky, but still at 1.8%.
we are up to 239 gallons in barrels and jugs, and another 15 in the canner. LAst batch to get filtered was B, but I think this next batch is going to be darker. I think 275-280 gals. is realistic but our first forecasted freeze isn't until next Sunday. Leaving taps in till at least March 31st. Keeping the faith...
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
buckets woke back up today. Some were 3/4 full at 8pm after being empty at 8am. gathered 525 gals total. never had so many bugs in the sap.
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
a bit slower turn out for 1st day of maple weekend. We used some water and permeate with off flavored syrup diluted back in to make some steam. few big purchases meant that we still did our second best sales total for a maple weekend saturday. Couple of folks buying their holiday syrup now figuring supplies might be short come december. Rain today may put a damper on things, but we will still be making steam.
cold snap coming in Monday through Thursday of this week. time to dump some buckets and wash some tanks...
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
pALS
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