All tapped on 5/16 gravity tubing in Pelham. Looks good through Sunday. But was it too early?
240 taps
All tapped. Too early?
All tapped on 5/16 gravity tubing in Pelham. Looks good through Sunday. But was it too early?
240 taps
Jollie Well Away's Sugar House
2x6 H20 Innovations
400 taps---gravity tubing
I am all taped except a few and a lot of the the big guys are all tapped but im in ny so depends
2013 first year - 7 taps made 6 gallons of syrup !!!!
2014 120 taps on half pint evaporator gallons made ???
I tapped over the weekend. Are you using CV spouts? You wont know unless your try!
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
no cv spouts. just 18 cent h20 throwaways
Jollie Well Away's Sugar House
2x6 H20 Innovations
400 taps---gravity tubing
Are the 28 gallons I dreww last weekend gonna be any good when I get the other 72 I need to sweeten my new pan? They're sitting in my holding tank during this cold spell.
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
Yeah they will still be good because it will be frozen solid, as long as the sap doesn't get warm before you boil it you will be good.
400+ taps
2x6 drop flue evaporator
homemade blower
16x24 sugarhouse
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thx, jthom
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
what about the taps I've put in? Will they start to close if it's two weeks w/o sap?
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
ive been all tapped in for 16 days, im using 346 leader CV spouts. now just waiting for the weather to get things on track enough to flip the switch for the vacuum pumps and let it begin. tapping early isn`t a bad thing on tubing, but buckets id wait its running good to put them out. good luck and hopefully the weather turns for the better soon
2x6 leader WSE with AUF, hood,preheater
waterguy RO
leader 16 gal custom water jacketed canner
10 in short stack wes fab filter press
540 taps on tubing with vac & always adding
2- benders running 25" hg from GAST vac pumps
few stainless bulk tanks
1978 chevy 1 ton 4x4 dually
IH T340 dozer with 6-way blade
It's running in Haverhill.....put out the last of my buckets
2024 - New Maine resident, 12X12 sugar shack under construction
2019 - New 12X12 boiling pavilion
2018 - New Mason 2X3 Hobby XL and homemade RO
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