Well, do you think end is near?
In the south west corner of Adirondack's few folks think might get another week or two...
Thoughts?
How you doing in your area of the Empire State??
How's it looking at this point?
Well, do you think end is near?
In the south west corner of Adirondack's few folks think might get another week or two...
Thoughts?
How you doing in your area of the Empire State??
Still going in ephratah,foothills of adirondacksboiled tues,25 gals not quite a dk,got 1500 gals thurs off 2200 taps,probably will be a dk or c,which is ok,need some,total 607 of which 400 is a lt or fancy
We had our strongest run of the season yesterday, one of our releasers was dumping every 90 seconds. We ran it through the RO last night and are boiling today --- hopefully no buddy stuff yet.....
3,100 taps
60 cfm flood
HC2
5 by 14 oil
Brian
im done here in broome county......had a good run yesterday but the sugar is about zero.....to bad sap is good and clear....some have shut off....lows after tonite are 40s and 60 for high all next week........
Im in Franklin county New York in the Adirondack park and we Have just started. We have had 5 boils and still have 18 inches of snow in the bush.Temps for this week will be in the low to mid 40s and night time temps will be mid to high 20s.I hope Im looking at least two more weeks or more. The bush is above 2000 feet ellivation so temps run colder. The trees just started to open up yesterday.Time will tell.
2012- 200 buckets 2 by 8 woodfired leader evaporator with hood and pre-heater. 2013-400 taps with cheek valves and new tubing system. 2014-600 taps with cheek valves and wesfab short bank filterpress and a 16 by 16 canner from Leader and a Kubota L3200 sap hauler.2016- new 250 gas powered Ro from Deer Run Maple. New Airablow 1000 tap gas powered vacuum pump and 1000 tap duel releaser and 1800 ft of sap transfer line to sugar house and down to 540 taps.
Southern Oswego Cty. looks to be about done. Tonight last time we go into the 20s they're saying. Hope to get sap for a couple more days on vacuum. Collected 2000 yesterday, 1500 so far today, and hopefully that much again tomorrow/Sunday. Almost all medium, with about 100-120 light. At about 650 total now. Goal is 700.
Tim Whitens
Willow Creek Farm
Fulton, NY
3000 on vacuum, 3hp 3ph Busch pump, 2567 Gast
30X8 Leader oil-fired evap. w/ steamaway
Airablo 1000 RO
6 Alpacas
sap
we have pulled around 2,000 in since it thawed out yesterday,hope it keeps on coming
We started with 50 pails,cooking outside. We have progressed upwards to 1700 + taps on pipe line with vacuum.Cooking on a 4x12 with auf/aof . This year we added a wetline and vacuum booster, also updated to Busch mink vacuum pump. New for 2015 will be a Leader Extreme 2 R/O as well as buying sap from some of the locals.
Lookin to pull taps Sat. evening or Sun. at some point. Have some that have shut down. No freezing temps here after tonight here. Been a good season!
2011: Turkey Fryer, 3 Taps, 1 Quart!
2012: Crude Block Setup, 14 Taps & 2.5 Gal. Syrup
2013-2016: Fuel Tank w/ Steam Pans, 20 Taps and between 4.5-6.5 Gallons
2017: Next Gen Maple 2x3 Hobby setup, 25 taps & 4.5 Gal.
2018: 34 taps & 8 gal
Ran great today! In So West corner of Adirondack Park. Actually added 10 buckets! Plus sap at 3*brix
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