Second boil yielded 720 gal today. Started AR, ended up GD. Hit .25 gal/tap season total, so half way to our minimum goal, but hoping to go beyond that. Sap sugar holding at 2.6 Brix so far.
Second boil yielded 720 gal today. Started AR, ended up GD. Hit .25 gal/tap season total, so half way to our minimum goal, but hoping to go beyond that. Sap sugar holding at 2.6 Brix so far.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Did a 12 hour boil today. Definitely broke myself in. Long day but boy that sweet flavor coming off the pan is irreplaceable!
Ended up with more than 3 gallons added to last weekends boil. Looking forward to bottling!
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Mead Maple "It's for the kids..."
Paul Cerminara
2019 - First season ever
-Goal: 3 gallons
-Season Total: 7.5 gallons - pulled taps after running out of firewood and time
2020
Built 2'x8' Oil Fired with Thor drop flue pans
-Goal: 20 gallons
-Season Total: 55 gallons
My woods froze up last night at 8:00pm. Today the sap should roll. we have great weather in the 10 day forecast.
Spud
Wind is blowing hard but the sap is still running 500 GPH. Going to run all day and night . Should run tomorrow till evening.
Spud
Still looking for that great run this year. Sap flow started to increase around noon today. I am hoping the next few days it will pick up. The woods still have a fair amount of snow and there are many areas where the ground is frozen.
We cleaned the evaporator today. We have made about 25 gallons and are about a 1/4 of the way to our season goal.
Mike
Tapping since 1985 (four generations back to early to mid 1900s). 200-250 taps on buckets and then tubing in the mid 90s. 2013- 275 taps w/sap puller 25 gal. 2014-295 taps w/sap puller 55 ga. (re-tapped to vacuum theory) 2015-330 taps full vac. 65 gal, 2016-400 taps 105 gal, 2017-400 taps 95 gal. 2018-additional 800' mainline and maybe 400 new taps for a total near 800 taps. 2x6 Leader WSE (last year on it) supported by a 250 gph RO.
Woke up to another 2250 gallons in the tank. Running 175 GPH this morning. Should keep running till 10:00 pm or so and then a full day of freeze up. Tuesday it should roll again.still testing 2.1%. Vacuum is down an inch so I will check lines today. It's been very windy here for a few days.
Spud
Been busy here. Haven't had a solid freeze here since Tuesday night. Sap ran very well Wednesday ->Thursday and since then it has been a little over 1 gpt every 24 hours. Boiled Wednesday and Friday and will be at it again today. Grade lightened way up to GD for last boil. Great syrup for confections so I was glad to make almost 50 gal of that. Since sweetening the pans I haven't made less than 35 gal in one boil which is pretty impressive for my little operation. SC has been holding at over 2%. Niter has really shown up the last couple boils...
Production is currently at over .25gpt so more than halfway to my goal. I'm not sure i'll hit .65 like last year but will keep at it until the trees bud. Should be another good week with hard freezes tonight and tomorrow night to recharge the trees. Going on 24 hours at close to 60F here and most of our snow is gone. Thankfully the ice in the driveway finally melted. Good luck everyone!
About 750 taps on High Vac.
2.5 x 8 Intens-O-Fire
Airtech 3 hp LR Pump
Springtech Elite 500 RO
14 x 24 Timber Frame SugarHouse
16 x 22 Sap Shed w/ 1500 gal. + 700 gal. tanks
www.littlehogbackfarm.com
Nearly a gallon per/tap overnight. Almost out of tank space.
Remember to keep on ticking while the sap is dripping.
2016- 50 buckets. Made 4 gallons.
2022- 3750 taps + Smartrek! Made 1300 gallons.
2023- 3750 taps after removing a pump house and connected two woods. Made 800 gallons.
Froze up earlier then I thought it would today. I did get .25 gpt today. I good freeze up is just what we need.
Spud
I'm with Spud. Things slowed down so hoping to get a good freeze tonight to recharge everything. Definitely exciting! Even for us driveway boilers haha
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Last edited by Mead Maple; 04-01-2019 at 07:16 AM. Reason: Grammar
Mead Maple "It's for the kids..."
Paul Cerminara
2019 - First season ever
-Goal: 3 gallons
-Season Total: 7.5 gallons - pulled taps after running out of firewood and time
2020
Built 2'x8' Oil Fired with Thor drop flue pans
-Goal: 20 gallons
-Season Total: 55 gallons
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