Tapped last week, 245 taps in on 12th and 14th. Collected 75 gallons on 14th but a lot of ice in the buckets. Hoping for a nice little run today/ tonight.
Good luck brother sappers.
Tapped last week, 245 taps in on 12th and 14th. Collected 75 gallons on 14th but a lot of ice in the buckets. Hoping for a nice little run today/ tonight.
Good luck brother sappers.
Jeff
226 taps, 2X6 evap with homemade piggyback
"Four Corners Farm"
Jefferson, Ohio
I tapped Feb 11th, 170 on vacuum (mostly soft) and 130 on buckets (100 hard). Put about 500 gallons of sap in my 2x6 so far, bottled 5 gallons on sunday. Its been slow, wheres all the sap!
Coffee Creek Pure Maply Syrup
2011 - 88 taps, bags and hangers, boiled on three roaster pans, 2x3 arch. 20 gallons. Planted 40 sugar maple saplings and 10 5 year transplants.
2012 - 2x6 drop flue, homemade arch, 100 taps on buckets, 15 gallons.
2013 - Added steam hood, pre-heater, re-designed arch, 170 taps on vacuum and Bender Releaser, 100 buckets
Looking forward to the next 40 + years of friendship, family, and preserving the sugarin' lifestyle.
Collected 250 gallons of sap from 450 taps yesterday. 190 from vacuum and 60 from 100 buckets/bags. Wish I would have left my vac on Monday night. Sugar content only 1.5.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
Collected 120 last night from 150 bags, best run in sometime, tapped Jan. 19. Weather sounds good starting Friday through next week.
Crooked Run Maple
Ragersville, Ohio (North Central Ohio)
2024 310 +/- Taps on 5/16 Gravity & 30 +/- Bags
Selling Sap with plans for a Sugarhouse in 2025
250+/- Taps in past
Put 96 taps in on Saturday - will do the rest next weekend - and collected 85 gallons Tues morning. It ran like crazy after the front came through Mon night and they were just starting to slow down at noon when the temp started dropping again. Glad I got that in when I did, cause it sure looks cold until the weekend. Sugar content suprised me at 2.5%, we're normally less than that over here.
The new dump tank and pump system worked really slick and saved having to pour into the small 6" hole on the tanks.
John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
Yesterday, I was able to collect about 75 gallons of sap from 115 taps. We had to break the skin of ice in every bucket. Luckily got most of it before it all froze. It yielded right at 2 gallons of syrup.
2013 2.5x4 Flat pan, 92 buckets, 22 gravity - rookie season
2x6 Lapierre raised flue with AUF and AOF, Siro filter,
homemade hood and preheater, homemade 4x40 RO
2021 ~300 taps, buckets and 3/16 tubing gravity
Tapping same trees as father and grandfather, sugar shack from 1875
We got about 80 gal off of 350 taps have I mentioned my trees SUCK. The good news is the new evaporator is kicking butttttt got the preheater finished and installed still have some adjustments to make to it but we had 100 - 125 gal. Lit a fire at 7:00 and was in the shower at 10:15-10:30 we were pretty impressed and finally got the pans sweet and drawed off about a gal waaahooo finally seemed like it took forever!!
Jeff you had some impressive steam flying when I drove by after school the other day.Originally Posted by Jeffery G.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
5 day forecast not as favorable as it looked two days ago. Temps barely above freezing except for Monday. Why even bother looking at the long range forecast it changes every half hour? 34 degrees here all night but trees are still too cold.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
heus you are right about the long range best therapy is to quit looking, but the overall trend seems to be cold could this be a very short season? I keep thinking once it warms up it may stay warm
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