Should market saplings from those trees!
Should market saplings from those trees!
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
And I thought the 5.7 we saw today was good....that's just plain impressive!
Season TotalsCurrent Equipment
- 2019 - 24 Taps / 11.5 Gal. Syrup
- 2018 - 24 Taps / 20 Gal. Syrup
- 2017 - 18 Taps + 7 Taps added Mid-Season / 15 Gal. Syrup
- 2016 - 18 Taps added Mid-Season / 5.25 Gal. Syrup
- Off-grid solar/battery powered home-built RO and "Sugar House"
- Homebuilt 34x17 Propane Evaporator
Woke up to 2000 gallons in the tank. Sap is still trickling in a bit. Testing 2.2% this morning. Sunday it should run again.
Spud
i had a pretty dismal run yesterday. it set up to look like excellent conditions to run, but only got less than a gallon per tap. probably something to do with the 3' of snow still hugging the trees. However, the rings at the base are started! got some pretty heavy sugar snow coming down right now!
Awfully thankful for an understanding wife!
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
- Vincent “Vince” Lombardi
Good luck to all!
Dr. Tim is that really reading almost 10% raw sap? Can't be. I must be missing something.
3x8 Algier Evaporator. 600 gph Lapierre RO. 10" Filter press. We buy sap.
Unreal. I ran into Philip at CDL last week and we were talking about his high numbers. Also said he had red maples that were regularly running 3%. Is it possible there are dissolved solids other than sugar being measured there? Would be interesting to test the composition.
Just pumped 50 gallons from the recent run and was shockingly surprised to have 3% sugar.
About 1 gpt for 41 road tree taps on 3/16 and 7 yard buckets.
Snowing and barely running now.
I was pleasantly surprised to collect 2.6% last weekend.
Last year I didn't measure sugar on the first run, but later runs were 2.3% and below.
2014-2017 - 3 taps - open fire boil
2018 - 33 taps on 3/16 20" Hg, 3 buckets, barrel evaporator, RO Bucket
2019 - 41 taps on 3/16" 20" Hg, 4 buckets, barrel evaporator, RO-Bucket Kit (3x400 gpd)
after todays boil im at about 1/2 crop, .25gpt is full crop for me in my all gravity setup, forcast looks promising! could do without with snow though
We had 1.7gpt as of yesterday when I got home from work, and then got another .4 gpt overnight. RO took 265 gallons of water out and we boiled our 10% until 1230 last night, made a little over 9.5 gallons. This is good for our small op, and we even made some golden delicate, a first for us. Made for a long day at work on 2 hrs of sleep though!
200 on 3/16" vacuum plus some buckets
D&G 2x6 7" drop flue wood fired
Lapierre 200gph RO
"We like it sticky"