Western New York

[Framerjeff]

Elky 81. Funny that's the exact pan I have been looking at. They have one fully set up temp and valves both ends with warmer also for around 700..How's your gallon per hour rate? Just bought some bottles from Smoky lake. Best price I found. Some we're broke so I called and they are sending replacement right out. Seems to be great company to do business with

[Elky81]

Framerjeff- Monday night was the first night I got to fire up the new arch I made with the pan. I was using steam pans before and getting about 4 gallons an hour. With the new badgerland pan it was right at 11-12 gallons an hour! I don't have a blower yet on my arch and still have some fine tuning to be done but was very impressed.IMG957768.jpg

[mudr]

Obviously, the snow is starting to hit now. This is the 3rd noreaster in 2 weeks. News said there might be another one Tuesday/Wednesday next week.

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[MapleMark753]

Ya, snow hit here too. Maybe five-ish inches so far. We'll see.
But yesterday... I do sap bags here, and they were all half ice. But half sap too. So a few hundred times I collected. Took each bag off, held it against my thigh and tapped the other side of the bag with the flat of my hand. That broke up the ice fine. Then into collection buckets, then through a strainer into collection tank. Ended up with enough to boil several hours, which was good. The real good part was that the remaining raw sap was 3.8 percent on a refractometer. I couldn't believe it, but it was so. (ya, on the other end it'll be lower percentage on the next collection but thats what the RO is for). I DID re-learn NOT to break up the ice when the lower bag corners are frozen. The sharp points of ice did what sharp points of ice do...(but only a coupla times)

[Framerjeff]

Thanks elky81. 10 was the number I was looking for. 11 12 is bonus looks like I'll be upgrading for 2019.

[backyardsugarer]

Almost to 200 gallons produced and bottled. Should get there Saturday morning. Going to save whatever I get today to boil for open house. People love the smell and to buy hot off the bottling line. Candy and cream made and the weather looks decent so we should have a nice turnout for maple weekend part 1. Good luck to my copetition Greg Keyes at Trout Brook Sugar House. He does it the right way and is very helpful.

[wnybassman]

***yawn***

[wnybassman]

OMG there is this strange clear liquid running out of the trees this afternoon!!! Woo-Hoo!!

[Urban Sugarmaker]

It was running a bit today but not enough to collect. I will collect Sunday and boil Monday. Took some time today to clean the pans with vinegar and boiling permeate. I might have 2 weeks left if the flavor stays good.

[wnybassman]

I emptied the buckets late in the day to get the ice blocks out of them. lol Have about 150 gallons in the one bulk tank and decided to leave it in there overnight hoping the warmer sap that ran in today keeps it from freezing too bad. Already a fair amount of ice in it from the little bit of sap that ran on Thursday. Will try tomorrow mid afternoon to start getting it out of there. One insane week and I could be where I was last year.