Washington county NY

[lakeview maple]

I went and checked the sugarhouse tonight, it was 28 this morning and it hit 50 here today. I was certain I would have 500 plus in the tanks.......................... 40 gallons.
That's it 40 gallons total, I would be lying to say I'm not disappointed. I'm hoping tomorrow is a better day but if not I'm pulling the plug Sunday. Disappointing season here, never had a tsunami of sap , didn't have the oh crap day mu tanks are going to overflow like the last two years. Its all good tho, Ro next season, adding some more taps . Rant over, lol

[Wanabe1972]

I feel you Lakeview i cleaned all my tanks in the sugar house and in woods Sat expecting one last good run today. Pumps were running at 9 am when i checked them went to bed at noon with visions of near full tanks when i got up for work. Checked my tanks and had about 35 gallons out of 217 taps. Shut the pumps off and came to work. Im going to figure up my totals tonight and boil the pans out in the morning with permeate. It was my best year so far with the lowest tap count ive had in 5 years.

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

we shut pumps off tuesday, turned back on this morning. we had 20 gallons MAYBE. gravity doing better but it has not ran in a few days gather tomorrow boil raw sap or maybe one pass in RO. If no more by this weekend we might be done we are up to 170

[lakeview maple]

Last boil last night, boiled off 180 gallons in the tank, I dumped the 40 from the other tank. It just never really ran here all week . I walked lines looked for leaks , did what I think is normal maintenance and it just wasn't happening. Its all good tho, I'm thankful for what I did get . As a side note to Flatlanders and I's conversation about 3/16th plugs. I have found on my steep grades there were no issues with gunk build up , but on a couple of long flatter runs it was there . Just makes me want to reconfigure the runs to keep them at a steeper angle. These are the 3 year old ones , the newer ones had no buildup. Ill just move those lines to catch a different mainline .Hope everyone has a great spring and enjoy the summer . God bless, Al

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

made 5 gal last night of something, I say has different taste GF says its tastes good. does not smell sweet when boiling any more. I should be up around 185 now. Some one dropped off a coors beer keg out behind sugar house must have fallen from the beer gods.

[COMSTOCK MAPLES]

Had a good season here. The RO helped out a lot this year with all the low sugar sap. Worth its weight in gold..... Ended with 25 gallons of great tasting syrup so no complaints here. Took down two trees behind the shack to make room for the Tank/RO room. One thing I love the most is Expanding and making everything more efficient. Just got a store shelf out in Colorado so that's going to be a big step up for us to keep them happy with syrup. Let the clean up begin..... Have a great summer everyone...

[lakeview maple]

Hey all, where are all the Washington county sugar makers at??? Its been really quiet here on Trader, I spent the afternoon in the woods setting up a new 200 tap bush, and ill be at the sugarhouse Monday getting it all ready for the sap tsunami. So give me a shout and let everyone know how your doing. Take care and hope for a great season.

[lakeview maple]

Hi all, here we are again with another snow storm that's not needed. I finished the new bush and started working at the sugarhouse. I got about 175 on line down there with another 500 to go. Ill be there tomorrow after I plow out from this last mess. Things are shaping up well hopefully Ill be boiling in the next week or so.

[adk1]

hey lakeview, glad that u are gearing up. yeah we have 10” on the ground and its still coming down. i have done some woods work vut thats about it. not very shipshape this year yet.

[lakeview maple]

Im tapping on Wednesday, I spent the day at the sugarhouse on Friday cleaning and getting everything ready. I did a bunch of woods work last week also, really sick of the snow storms. So things are starting to fall into place hopefully it all goes well.