Is it running for anybody today?
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Is it running for anybody today?
Two years boiling on a Leader half pint
2011 100 buckets,12 gallons made
2013 120 on tubeing 20 buckets 27 gallons made
2014 Leader King 2 x 6 Working on 400 + on tubeing
goal: 70 gallons
I'll check when I get home, I'd suppose it will run some today.
Last edited by Ittiz; 03-07-2014 at 12:53 PM.
I was surprised to see 3 of my buckets yesterday get almost a gallon!!! No idea how the heck that happens, so im assuming they will be running again today....fingers crossed for everyone!!
2022 4x40" RO, Welch 1397 Vac Pump, 3 Guzzler Pumps, Lapierre Releaser, 1100 taps
2021 Twin Baby Boys, Close to 650 taps
2020 Upgraded RO to 2 post and 7GBS Pump. 265 taps
2019 Smoky Lake 2x6 raised flue, Autodraw system, Maple Jet Filter Press, a beautiful new bride to be my sugaring partner :-)
2017 Expanded Sugar Shack, new 2x6 with float box, NEXTgen Maple RO, 250+ taps, still on sap sacks
2016 Sugar Shack, 2x6 evaporator, 160 taps, all on Sap Sacks
2014 110 taps
2013 35 taps
It is starting to run a little here. It didn't get above freezing until noon and is now 36 with high light clouds making the sun not as bright. I don't think it will amount to much sap today as it was zero this morning and took a long time to thaw out. Hope for a better day tomorrow.
Sugaring for 45+ years
New Sugarhouse 14'x32'
New to Me Algier 2'x8' wood fired evaporator
2022 added a used RB25 RO Bucket
250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around
I must be just too far north. I have about 20% of my taps dripping a little. I keep checking about every 20 minutes though, PATHETIC!!!
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers
Not enough to say so here
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
Each of my taps ran between 0 and .1 gallon with nothing before 1o'clock. It was just to cold last night everything was in a complete freeze until noonish. Tonight looks freezing cold like 5 degrees again so I'm not overly hopeful on tomorrow although it will be a bit warmer. Sunday and early next week looks better no sun but no deep freezes. I was really hoping for a good run today and a flood tomorrow. Also I'm on the mass border I bet no one in nh on this website has taps further south than me...
So I checked mine and I got home too late to see anything since it's below freezing now and all my lines go into a barrel I can't see into. I can tell they ran some since the lines have ice in them that wasn't there before, but there is no way to determine how much.
It never thawed here until after noon. We had -3 below this morning. it's going to take a couple of days to thaw before we see any run.
Supposed to be cold again tomorrow morning so I would not expect any better results for the day tomorrow.
Hope things change and not too fast.
5th generation sugar maker
700 +- taps
2008 Leader 2.5 x 8 drop flue with air tight front/blower
16 x 32 Leader gas finisher
Wes Fab 7" Filter Press
Water Jacketed Canning Tank 20 gallons capacity
475 gallon Stainless head tank
600 gallon raw sap bulk tank
MES 300gl per hr RO
Marcland Auto Draw
Kubota XG 850 sap Hauler
Kubota M5900 4x4 Tractor with loader
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I ended up with about 30 gallons from about 330 taps! I had -5 this AM so a long time to thaw today. Hope it runs tomorrow, I have people screaming for syrup!
Two years boiling on a Leader half pint
2011 100 buckets,12 gallons made
2013 120 on tubeing 20 buckets 27 gallons made
2014 Leader King 2 x 6 Working on 400 + on tubeing
goal: 70 gallons
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