first syrup of the year at SWEETER CREATIONS today !!!!!! I thought we had only enough to sweeten the pans but made about 3 gallons. Good luck everyone. Mike
first syrup of the year at SWEETER CREATIONS today !!!!!! I thought we had only enough to sweeten the pans but made about 3 gallons. Good luck everyone. Mike
Made my first two gallons today also. Everything worked well, and the hardwood I'm burning makes almost no smoke. The weather looks like it'll finally start for real on March 18th.
We got 700+ tapped this weekend. Maybe someday we'll actually see some sap. Collecting buckets in the woods will be a major pain until the snow goes down. I tried to bury the tractor this aft in a spot that snow was deeper than the front tires are tall. Lucky to get it out.
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.
Collected about 100 gallons over the weekend. Almost enough to get started. This week looks a bit more promising. BTW, I finally got my sap road packed down and snow blowed so that I can get to my collector. Place my new to me zero tank yesterday. Looks like I have a couple days to get the lines connected and ready to go. Congrats to those that made syrup already. How was the sugar concentration?
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+
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Ive dumped 700 gallons of sap to date.Just not enough to start up on the individual runs.
3x12 D&G Champion, 1100 taps w/27" of vac.New in 2013 600gph RO. 10 buckets for the kids.
Imathews, Do you mean to say you've dumped 700 gallons on the ground? If so, you need a smaller evaporator. 700 gallons is $700 in my book.
Yup.It was line flushing basically.
3x12 D&G Champion, 1100 taps w/27" of vac.New in 2013 600gph RO. 10 buckets for the kids.
Still waiting, but it looks like I can boil tomorrow.
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.
The weather forecast seemed so promising the other day, but it's only been kind of piddling along every afternoon. A bit too gloomy and a little cool and breezy for a real run, but there a quart or two in each bucket today, so I'll gather Friday, cook on Saturday, then hunker down for another cold spell. Seems like it's getting late.
The sun finally came out this afternoon and the sap began to flow for real. I gathered in what accumulated over the last three days, and got 128 gallons...enough to bother with and will probably yield 2-1/2 or 3 gallons. It seems so late, and we have yet to get what I'd call a good run. This predicted snow storm will probably fall while I'm safe inside cooking tomorrow. Will it ever end?