Collected about 145 gallons today. It's still tasting good but I can smell the change in the steam. More foam too. I'm pulling my taps Sunday and boiling the rest of what I collect. Then finish the sweet and start cleaning. Ugh.
Collected about 145 gallons today. It's still tasting good but I can smell the change in the steam. More foam too. I'm pulling my taps Sunday and boiling the rest of what I collect. Then finish the sweet and start cleaning. Ugh.
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/
We didn't get much of a run last night. Looks like we will be starting up at noon and chase the sweet out of the pans today. Been a record season for us. Plus I am tired of looking/buying more dry wood.
220 Taps
2x6 Home made
Sap Shack 20x20
5 Shurflo diaphragm pumps
250 GPH Deer run RO
Just a little hobby guy here but I Pulled my taps today. My trees are budding and one of my buckets was bad. Not to mention I am tired of hauling buckets. Looking for a quad to help me with the work. Honda Rincon, rubicon or foremans
I think i may be done today too. Boiled 70 gal down the past couple of days. Lost another .5gal not paying attention foamed over on the turkey frier, would have tthought i learned from the first time.
2019- RO
2018- 25 taps made 8 gal syrup.
2017- 25 taps -built a 2x3 flat pan, and a fuel tank arch for it. 335 gal 7.34gal syrup.
2016- 15 taps, 4.3gal syrup boiling on cinderblock arch 3 roasting pans, 1 redneck trash can with a pot, and a turkey fryer.
2015- 4 taps 44 gals of sap made 2.25 gal of lite syrup.
All done here. Picked up 135 gallons today and chased the sweet with permeate. I am soap washing the RO now and I have about 4 gallons of sweet to finish and 5 or 6 gallons to bottle. I'm feeling pretty relieved to be done, but accomplished. It was a 43 day season for me and I think I will finish with around 52 gallons from around 2500 gallons of sap. Mostly amber, about 25% light, and we'll see how the rest grades tomorrow or Tuesday. I definitely hit 1 quart per tap which is what I wanted. It worked out despite the tremendous warmth. Makes me wonder what "normal" season is like.
Time to pull the rest of the buckets and tubing and start cleaning up. Then I really need to start selling more syrup.
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/
We ended up with 145 gal syrup on 270 taps. That is .5 gal/tap? Wow, a record year for us as well. We started on Feb 4th and ended March 26, so about 48 days for us. That re-circ line on the Shurflo pumps and 100 of my taps were the CV style, so I am thinking they made the biggest improvement for us this year. Looking at an RO now... Went through way too much wood...
220 Taps
2x6 Home made
Sap Shack 20x20
5 Shurflo diaphragm pumps
250 GPH Deer run RO
I just finished the last of it myself. 145 taps, 2198 gallons of sap, a tick over three full cord of wood and 49.25 gallons made. First bit was a lighter amber rich, most of it was dark robust and had a couple batches of strong dark mixed in.
My dad boiling while I was working really made the season for us. Would have never kept up otherwise. A little bit of clean up left and will start preparing for next year.
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
Finished up last night. Syrup turned buddy. Made 20 gallons of it last night and then drained the tanks.
Steward's Dairy Farm
3x10 Leader Vortex Maxflue Revolution pans and steamaway
Leader Extreme 2 RO
2000 vac
45 gravity
My total was 52 gallons on 190 taps. Not bad. But I think my sugar was lower than measured or my sap gallon count was way off. I estimated 2500 gallons of sap which puts me at 48:1. I made very little dark and my last batch was in the middle of amber rich for light transmittance.
I should be done cleaning up by Sunday.
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/
Hey guys I'm Wyoming county around Warsaw area I'm still getting clear sap about 700 gallons a day sometime more. The guy I sold my sap to is shutting down for the season. His woods are done I live in a higher elevation and my woods are always cold. If any of you aren't tired of boiling and want to buy sap let me know or I'll be pulling the plug soon.
2019:250 gallons
2020:324 gallons
2021:?