Frogs ain't signing yet
Frogs ain't signing yet
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
LOL, perhaps they'll sing before they sign?
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
I got off to a late start but have much more flexibility in my schedule currently. Hoping for at least one more big run. We are getting big wet snowflakes today and my Grandmother always claimed that was “sugar snow” when it happened in March. Good luck to everyone!
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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
Much less sap since the last freeze than expected. Hoping last nights freeze will give us a solid run for the next couple days.
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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
Well it's 30 degrees this morning, but that's the end of it. No more freezing nights for the next ten days. Clean up will begin on Monday. April is a great month for planting trees. I've got spots picked out for six Sugar Maples around a nearby apartment building.
We had our last boil on Thursday and called it a season. Have to work the weekend and cleanup starts for us on Monday also. Time to concentrate on next winters wood.
12 x 16 shack with 8 x 16 addition
2 x 6 D&G raised flue with hood
Homebuilt releasers
220 taps on vac
100 plus taps on buckets
Gast 1550 on gas engine
HF vac pump on generator
I had my final boil Friday. All that's left is to finish off what's still in the pans. Then comes clean up and flush lines as I pull the taps. Then it's time to do firewood for next year (unless I force myself to convert to oil or propane, a thought in process).
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.
Forecast just changed will get a freeze the 1st & 2nd. Might wait a little longer
Higher elevations might get enough cold, but here in Potsdam we're done. I was a short season, just 27 or 28 days and the sugar content wasn't all that good. I'm looking at around 50:1 ratio.
Very low sugar we are seeing 70 gallons of sap to one of syrup
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
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