Western New York

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Surprised yesterday with 350 gallons. Even the buckets were running a bit. Still making pretty light syrup but it's starting to darken. It's going to be a busy week this week and maybe even next week.

[wnybassman]

Help!! lol Setting records today for us. Processed 355 gallons and drew off right around 10 gallons. Will probably set more tomorrow because I already have 340 sitting between two milk tanks and I am guessing 150ish will run over night. Syrup definitely darker.

[mudr]

Working on 260 gallons here, easily my best haul ever. Getting darker.

[Troutman10]

Have another 100 gallons to boil down. Gonna have to chip away at it here and there to keep up. Should be a busy week and a half looking at the 10 day. Have fun everyone!

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Another 370 gallons today. I'm just over 1000 gallons in 3 days and it's still running. I had a feeling this would happen. Syrup still looks light to me but it should darken soon.

[82cabby]

425 gallons on 100 taps in 48 hours. Yikes! That’s half of what I collected all last season. Sap looks nice and clear.

[Chickenman]

Stupid Lake Erie has been really messing with us here. My records show that I'm down on sap quantity despite having twice as many taps. Lake never froze over completely and I think that has been the major difference. Hope going to gravity tubing next year will help. The little that I installed I know is producing better then just buckets. It's early yet so we will see what the next few weeks bring. Noticed one of the silvers flower buds started to pop open. I hope this not a bad omen of what could be a short season.

[Tonk8it]

I got my wife's classroom doing experiments this is the third year for the class tapping. They have to figure out yield of sap and syrup based on weather forecast, all in fun. From the past three years I have introduced 75 new students into sugaring. Three of them have stuck with it and parents are helping them make syrup!

I spent the better part of my afternoon pulling 241 gallons out from 50 buckets. Every single one was overflowing except 1 tree that has produced nothing but half a gallon. Processing now in the garage with my RO. Back out Saturday afternoon to collect again after these next two days? In a bit over my head. I really would like to buy a larger evaporator.

I am also on a flat pan that surely doesn't help.

Who has a 2x4 or 2x6 they would like to part with?

[wnybassman]

It was a crazy three days here. We went through 1,075 gallons of sap from my 210 taps and made 21 gallons of finished syrup from it. All caught up and cleaned up except the draining/cleaning of the pans getting ready for the next run. Just plain ran out of energy to get that done. The end of next week looks like it could be version 2.0 of what we just had.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

It was a crazy three days here. We went through 1,075 gallons of sap from my 210 taps and made 21 gallons of finished syrup from it. All caught up and cleaned up except the draining/cleaning of the pans getting ready for the next run. Just plain ran out of energy to get that done. The end of next week looks like it could be version 2.0 of what we just had.

Same here on running out of energy. I had 1270 gallons from Monday through Thursday this week and the sugar was never below 2.3. I'm cleaning pans tomorrow and gearing up for another big week, hopefully the last week. I'm tired.