Tapping in Somerset Co

[Buffalo Creek Sugar Camp]

We have been getting some water the past day or so. Sugar content is low again, 1.3%. Does anaybody else have low sugar content this year?

[mapleguy55]

Finished up tapping yesterday and got the one pump running. The trees were running decent. Hopping it warms up enough today to track down leaks. Haven,t checked sugar content yet.

[rburk13]

Hey guys n girls, im new on here....Anyone on here have a sap release that's going unused that we could possibly rent or buy. Just got an RO this year and trying to get a vacuum hooked up too, we have a smaller patch of about 1300 taps. Thanks Randy

[emericksmaple]

After a very frustrating weekend, we are off and running. We had a bearing go out of our 5 hp water cooled vaccum pump on sun. And since it has been out for a while it grooved the shaft. After searching all of Pa and half of NY we found a local producer who had bought one 5 yrs ago and never installed. It is only a 3hp but is holding at 22". We have boiled every night since Tues with 276 gal made so far. Sap is holding steady around 2%

[MikeL]

Jeremy, I had 1.7 on some, my new installation hit 2 . finally got vacuum on it, gas but its running almost 22.5 at half throttle. The person huntin the releaser, where in pa are you? Glad for a day or 2 to recover and redo some things. Apparently my plumbing wont suffice for the bigger ro, hard to get it started and rolling.

[wglenmapler]

Glad to hear you found something to put in place! Always hard when vacuum systems go down.
Hope you have a great season Matt!