Smoky Lake 2x6 fuel-oil fired, raised flue, hoods, SSR, concentric exhaust
Home-built auto draw off
Home-built RO - double XLE 4040, PLC controlled
8x10 Sugar Shed
200 taps on tubing with Shurflo vacuum with solar
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On Saturday (1/5/19) it was warm in Potsdam and there were sugar spots all over the hood of my truck.
With the projected warm up coming this weekend, is anybody going to tap. I checked our 15 day forecast and looks like at least a 7 day stretch of sap running. Maybe I am just getting the itch.
New Holland 4055
John Deere Gator 825
500 on vacuum
2x6 mason
My helpers
1 wife that likes me out of the house. LOL
New 20x24 Sugar Shack 2019
Planning to sit this one out mostly because I am not ready but also because I want to see what the forecast looks like beyond this warm spell. I don't want to get started then be frozen for weeks.
Smoky Lake 2x6 fuel-oil fired, raised flue, hoods, SSR, concentric exhaust
Home-built auto draw off
Home-built RO - double XLE 4040, PLC controlled
8x10 Sugar Shed
200 taps on tubing with Shurflo vacuum with solar
https://www.facebook.com/flowercitymaplesyrup/
I'm basically in the same boat as Urban. It looks like this is going to go warm and stay above freezing for a few days, but then it appears the longer (less accurate) forecast after that is back down to consistently below 32. I'm sitting this one out. And it has nothing to do with the fact I still have some prep to do. Nope. Not one bit...
Ditto Ditto to the above, but I am 100% ready lol
Noel Good
1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
2016: 85 taps 19 gallons
2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
2019: 210 taps 73.5 gallons
2023: 210 taps 89.75 gallons
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This will be my first syrup season in about 25 years and we are supped to have 4 days of above 35 degrees, so i am drilling holes Sunday. My evaporator might not even be finished yet but it will be by the time i get enough to boil.
The forecast changed today in the cooler direction. Still warm Sunday thru Tuesday, but only showing two nights above freezing now instead of four or five.
Noel Good
1998 to 2009: 15 taps on buckets, scavenged fire pit and pans
2010: New 2x4 SS flat pan w/preheater
2015: New to me Lapierre 18x60 raised flue, new shack, new everything!! 59 taps 23.75 gallons
2016: 85 taps 19 gallons
2017: Purchased 2.5 acres and tubed half with 3/16. 145 taps total 49.25 gallons
2018: 200 taps (162 on 3/16ths 38 on buckets) New NextGen RO 63 gallons
2019: 210 taps 73.5 gallons
2023: 210 taps 89.75 gallons
www.wnybass.com
I tapped yesterday (2/3) at about 3pm. Collected at about 8pm (2/4). 3 silver maple taps maybe 1/2 a gallon. 5 reds about 4 gallons, 13 sugars about 10 gallons.
I tapped 300 on tubing on Sunday afternoon and just finished boiling 275 gallons tonight. Glad I tapped and got in on this run. Yahoo.
New Holland 4055
John Deere Gator 825
500 on vacuum
2x6 mason
My helpers
1 wife that likes me out of the house. LOL
New 20x24 Sugar Shack 2019