Maybe I should go bang'em back in
Maybe I should go bang'em back in
30 +- Taps
Homemade evaporator with 2x3 flat pan, 1x2 preheater pan/finishing pan, lots of ideas, not enough time
Better hurry! The sap is gonna start running soon!Originally Posted by jake22si
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
Accuweather has this coming week looking very good as well. I need to find more wood.............
Good to go, taps are in and it's running. I'm a meatball
30 +- Taps
Homemade evaporator with 2x3 flat pan, 1x2 preheater pan/finishing pan, lots of ideas, not enough time
Rookie mistake! With 30 taps it was an easy fix though.
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
didn't check the gravity lines but got 125 gallons of sap so far. and its still trickling in on the vac. I know there is at least a little sap from the gravity.
may your sap be at 3%
Brad
www.willowcreeksugarhouse.com
585 or so on Vacuum, about 35 on buckets/sap sacs
Atlas Copco GVS 25A Rotary Vane vacuum pump
MES horizontal electric releaser
2x6 ss phaneuf Drop flue, Leader woodsaver blower, homemade hood
300gph H2O RO
husquvarna 562 XP
Its Here!!! 2024 season is here get busy!!!
Be patient. My taps have been dry since last Tuesday. This morning (when I had decided I was finished for the season) more than half of my taps were running. I collected about 6 gallons from 34 taps before going to Easter celebrations..... Maybe we have one more run left?????? Just saying..... (or dreaming?)
2024 - 16 taps - buckets on our best producing trees, still boiling on a block arch with slight modifications/refinements over the years.
2021 - 25 taps - all buckets
2013-2020 - 30/41 taps: discovering which trees were the best producers
2012 - First year - 21 taps in our backyard - block arch evaporator with 3 steam table pans!
After the last two cold days the temperature here is trying to climb into the upper 40's. I checked the woods at 11:00, and its GAME ON! I tapped-in on February 24th this year, it's now April 4th and the trees are still hammering. I'm sold on the seasonal CV taps.
Wood-fired, home-made evaporator
Glenlivet-fired operator
I've got a few taps still running and sweet. Yesterday, I collected about 4 gallons from them. Not much but, why waste it?
2024 - 16 taps - buckets on our best producing trees, still boiling on a block arch with slight modifications/refinements over the years.
2021 - 25 taps - all buckets
2013-2020 - 30/41 taps: discovering which trees were the best producers
2012 - First year - 21 taps in our backyard - block arch evaporator with 3 steam table pans!
42 gallons from 18 taps today and it was still flowing at 8:30 pm. Going to be another busy weekend
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