ended up with 20'' here. sure does look like a normal winter here. Now for a normal spring for the sap to flow.
ended up with 20'' here. sure does look like a normal winter here. Now for a normal spring for the sap to flow.
best outdoor syrup made in Maine...... loosing that title as we are moving indoors to a 12x16 sugar shack with a new to us 2x6 .
Making syrup.
http://s724.photobucket.com/albums/ww248/TapME/
I got about 6" in my sugar house. Probably should have made cupola doors for this season...Originally Posted by bees1st
Spencer Carney
350 taps
phaneuf 2x4 with hybrid pan
2-350 gal, 5-55 gal drums, and a cage tank
only 16 yr old at school making syrup!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carney...3279081?ref=hl
Only about 5 or 6 inches here. I am glad because us fat guys dont really care for the deep snow.
4x14 Hurricane Force 5
Lapierre 1500 GPH R.O
7800 Taps on vac.
24x26 Sugarhouse
Think we ended up with around 14" of snow,hard to tell so much blowing around and drifting.Temperature here yesterday morning minus 22 fahrenheit,so no work getting done in the bush.
7th generation maple producer in sugarhouse built in 1892
2x World Champion Maple Syrup Producer
1250 taps on cv adapters
Leader Vortex 3x14 with Max Flue and Revolution Syrup Pan,Enhanced Steam Away
www.leggettmaplesyrup.com
Ran into some big issues here at the Back Ridge Sugar House. Good old NEMO pounded the north eastern side of my sugar house so hard it blew the the 30×60 window right out of the case. Needless to say i have a serious problimb inside now. I went in to check everthing on sat. morning and found about 12"-14" of snow on everything. Every sugaring tool and piece of equipment i own is in there and i about had a melt down right there! Oh well not much i can do about it at this point but start cleanint it up and change out a window. Im heading in tonight and fire up the wood stove to get some heat going and start cleaning.
24x56 heavy timber post and beam sugar house. 2013 CDL 2.5x8 deluxe airtight raised flue 750 taps on vacuum. CDL reverse osmosis, Wes Fab 7" full bank press. Eastern Maine CDL sales rep.
wow..yeah, that must have been some suprise. make sure you get plenty of pics of it..will be a great conversation piece in the future!
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
Yea i will post some pics of the mess i have so we can all have a good laugh together! Its about we can do now is look at it and laugh right? Good to see i wasent the only one that got snow drifts inside.
Last edited by boondocker; 02-12-2013 at 11:30 AM.
24x56 heavy timber post and beam sugar house. 2013 CDL 2.5x8 deluxe airtight raised flue 750 taps on vacuum. CDL reverse osmosis, Wes Fab 7" full bank press. Eastern Maine CDL sales rep.
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