With all the snow in the UP and more on the way could be going for a few weeks. If you haven't see the big run yet it's coming.
With all the snow in the UP and more on the way could be going for a few weeks. If you haven't see the big run yet it's coming.
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I just filled barrel 18. My 550 tap high vacuum woods was still producing sap at noon, more sap to boil tomorrow. My radio transmitter is sending bad data, I have no idea how full the tank is until I go empty it in the morning. I have good faith that the vacuum and releaser are working properly. 1200 taps total, the gravity is all done at this point.
I'm still producing one gallon of sap per tap on my vacuum.
Made approximately 25 gallons today.
I collected 3 gallons of slightly orange sap from my sugarbush last night. It smelled like normal sap to me but I just didn't want to risk adding it too the batch I hope to finish Friday morning. I will check my taps again in the morning to see if the trees were kind to me today. I intend to do a micro batch on the fish fryer just to see what the end result is.
Latitude:N 44° 50' 25.0463"
Longitude:W 85° 38' 57.8906"
New for 2022 (My 10th year) a 9" CDL Vacuum Filter Press
2016/2017 12' X 16' Sugar Shack 6/12 pitch roof W/ 3' X 4' Cupola.
John Deere HPX 4X4 Gator (Pop's left it to me when he died)
New for 2020 HB10 RO In A Bucket, a game changer.
2015 Purchased 50 used Bag holders.
2016 Purchased a home made evaporator and "everything" that went with it.
20 acre Sugar Bush
I might not be done! It's flowing pretty good today and looks clear...Cut and split some more woods I might get one more boil!
2012- Can't Remember 1st year...
2013- 41 taps made 13 Gallons of Syrup
2014- 20 taps made 5.5 Gallons of Syrup
2015- 43 Taps made 10 Gallons of Syrup
2016- 43 Taps...
2014-04-21_07-36-18_573.jpg1981982_10200805023808202_1880454470_n.jpg I was able to collect 25 gallons of sap for my final batch of the season before I pulled all my taps, buckets & jugs. My end result for this batch was some of the darkest amber syrup I have made to date. All I know is it sure does taste good. I was able to triple last years production so I am a very happy camper. Now I will be looking to see what I can do too improve for next years run while still keeping the budget as low as possible.
Latitude:N 44° 50' 25.0463"
Longitude:W 85° 38' 57.8906"
New for 2022 (My 10th year) a 9" CDL Vacuum Filter Press
2016/2017 12' X 16' Sugar Shack 6/12 pitch roof W/ 3' X 4' Cupola.
John Deere HPX 4X4 Gator (Pop's left it to me when he died)
New for 2020 HB10 RO In A Bucket, a game changer.
2015 Purchased 50 used Bag holders.
2016 Purchased a home made evaporator and "everything" that went with it.
20 acre Sugar Bush
Nope…done.
Fired up Friday and immediately shut back down. The moment I hit a boil I got foam like I’ve never seen before, near overflowed out of the syrup pan. No amount of defoamer was going to squelch that beast. Smell wasn’t right neither, woody, off.
Killed the boil with the emergency bucket-o-sap, slammed the float, nothing to lose at that point.
Pulled the buckets, pulled the taps, called it a season.
Brought in about 600 gallons of sap on the buckets and we figure something around 2500 gallons on vacuum. Made 53 gallons.
42.67N 84.02W
350 taps- 300 on vacuum, 50 buckets
JD gator 625i Sap hauler w/65 gal tank
Leader 2X6 drop flue
Homemade auto draw-off
Homemade preheater
Homebrew RO, 2- xle-4040's
LaPierre double vertical releaser
Kinney KC-8 vacuum pump
12X24 shack
Lots of chickens and a few cats.