The extended forecast looks great for my location starting on Tuesday. I'm scrambling to get as many taps out as possible.
The extended forecast looks great for my location starting on Tuesday. I'm scrambling to get as many taps out as possible.
12th Year "skip gen" Maple Producer
St. Lawrence County
1-'09: 4 gal stock pot, fire pit, 3 taps
2-'10: Pots, Kitchen Stove & Sap Selling ~110 taps
3-'11: 8x12 Shack, 146 taps (100 buckets/46 gravity), 16"x77" evaporator (2 flat pans)
4-'12: 8x16 expanded shack, 147 taps, Leader 2x8 dropped flu
5-'13: Added 10x20 wood shed, 1st yr on vac
6-'14: 175 taps, Zero Tank
7-'15: 230 taps, H20 jacket canner, Vintage Ski Doo Elan
8-'16: 150 taps
9-'17: Goal - RO and 250+
Twitter: @Newman_Zone
Jon : were at about 160 so far , 140 of light 25 Med open for maple weekend stop over . Mike
How many taps are you up to Mike(sweater creations)?Sound like your doing well this year.
Last edited by lmathews; 03-19-2013 at 03:32 PM.
3x12 D&G Champion, 1100 taps w/27" of vac.New in 2013 600gph RO. 10 buckets for the kids.
We reside in St. Lawrence County , but our sugar bush is just OUTSIDE SLC and in Lewis County...close to the border. We've seen things pick up this weekend as well, but we haven't had any dark yet...unless we get it today. Season started out light and went to borderline medium and stayed medium. Yesterday, it was still medium. It's been a season fraught with "anything that can go wrong, will" and it sure has! At every turn. But overall, it will have been a productive season.
There was an odd time, last weekend, I think or the one before. The syrup seemed too thick to pass through the press? Too sticky? I have the least experience so am probably explaining it wrong. It had the guys perplexed and scrambling. They made some calls and visits to find others with the same problem. ?? Anyway, it was that which brought me to this site, so something good came from it.
Old-fashioned tap and bucket collection, 3000 scattered over 90 acres.
From horses in the 60's to a log skidder and a tractor.
Heat with wood cut from the 90 acres.
Four generations going strong. I married into the third generation and gave birth to the fourth!
Loving all things maple! Looking to expand my horizons and try new maple projects!
Life gets sweeter every day! Happy Mapling!!
Well, I think that's it for us. We'll gather in the last tomorrow (April 8th) and tally up the results. We had a great run here in Potsdam over the last two days, and the sap looks very nice, but it clogs the filter-press after only 10 gallons. Very few trees have budded yet, but the weather forecast has no more cold nights. Altogether, it was a very good year.
We finished yesterday, but nobody told the CV's --- they are still going strong.
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
Anyone got a portable band saw around the Canton-Potsdam area in st Lawrence County?
Ian
New sugarhouse fall '06. 3x8 drop flue by Phaneuf. Kubota L2800. 260 buckets for 2012. 504 taps for 2013. 320 buckets, 207 on 5/16" and 200 on 3/16" gravity tubing for 2014. 2017: 280 buckets, 920 on 3/16" tubing, selling sap from 560 of that. Son Gavin is in 3rd successful year of selling maple equipment as MacK Maple Supply.
Ice from the storm just started melting off of the trees today. Current temperature is 34*. Wondering how this will impact the season. Doesn't look like there was much damage in our bush, at least yet. Only one large tree came down, it was partially hollow anyway. Natural thinning?
12th Year "skip gen" Maple Producer
St. Lawrence County
1-'09: 4 gal stock pot, fire pit, 3 taps
2-'10: Pots, Kitchen Stove & Sap Selling ~110 taps
3-'11: 8x12 Shack, 146 taps (100 buckets/46 gravity), 16"x77" evaporator (2 flat pans)
4-'12: 8x16 expanded shack, 147 taps, Leader 2x8 dropped flu
5-'13: Added 10x20 wood shed, 1st yr on vac
6-'14: 175 taps, Zero Tank
7-'15: 230 taps, H20 jacket canner, Vintage Ski Doo Elan
8-'16: 150 taps
9-'17: Goal - RO and 250+
Twitter: @Newman_Zone
Ian,
Randy Thayer has one.He does a pretty good job, Reasonable price as well.His number is in the book.
Backwoods or something like that as well,I know nothing about him.
Last edited by lmathews; 01-03-2014 at 06:37 AM.
3x12 D&G Champion, 1100 taps w/27" of vac.New in 2013 600gph RO. 10 buckets for the kids.
Yes Ian, next weekend looks good. You'll see more buckets this year as I've captured the interest of a couple more co-conspirators. You'll have to stop in and see my new "shed". They wouldn't give me a permit for a sugarhouse, and they wouldn't give me a permit for an agricultural building, but they gave me a permit for a shed....
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