What do you think, will we get 1 more run tomorrow or not?
One more?
What do you think, will we get 1 more run tomorrow or not?
Maybe....plenty of sun and warm.....hopefully the wind will not be too much of a factor!
Hawkins Sugar House
Sunapee, NH
2x6 Patrick Phaneuf, raised flu
3 Hp Atlantic Fluids Vacuum
500 taps
We'll get something bit if it warms up too fast we won't get much in the buckets. Vacuum should do good.
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
I was sure hoping for a good freeze last night. 32 degrees when I went to bed last night, but only dropped to 30 by dawn. That's it for us I think.
300 on vaccum
300 gravity tubing
200 buckets
100 hilltop acres
16x20 timberframe sugarhouse built in 2010
3x10 Leader max flue & revolution pans w/ Inferno arch - 2013
1998 Kubota M5400
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my house thermometer got down to 22 deg and it is usually a warm spot. I'm hoping big-sap today.
I still think I can weather the warm weather and still make some grade b after it cools back down on tuesday. This woods is still full of snow and the ice is still think on the ponds. Taps have only been in 2 weeks.
2012: Probably 750 gravity taps and 50 buckets.
600 gal stainless milk tank.
2 - 100 gallon stock tanks
one 30 gal barrel
50 buckets
3' x 10' Waterloo Raised Flue wood fired evaporator w/ open pans.
12" x 20" Filter Canner
Sawmill next to sugarhouse solves my sugarwood problem
Gather with GMC 3500 2wd Pickup w/ 425 gallon Plastic Tank.
Been tapping here in Lyman NH since 1989 but I've been sugaring since 8 years old in 1968.
Had 26 this morning on the trucks thermometer, I am about 1.5 miles from Bascoms. I guess we shall see what Mother gives us!
22 this morning here hoping for a run today
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
Ran a bit over here today. I was able to collect enough to top off my storage to boil down for one last batch on Saturday! The trees that are still flowing are slow, but it's not buddy yet.
2024 - 16 taps - buckets on our best producing trees, still boiling on a block arch with slight modifications/refinements over the years.
2021 - 25 taps - all buckets
2013-2020 - 30/41 taps: discovering which trees were the best producers
2012 - First year - 21 taps in our backyard - block arch evaporator with 3 steam table pans!
Best run of the year here today, a tad bit cloudy but that's ok. It was still running when I came in about an hour ago.
Same here, today was the best run of the season for me, with good clear sap. Todays sap JUST put me over the dreadful 2012 season, and with fewer taps. After today I'm thinking that I'm most likely done, but it's fun to go out with a great day.
Wood-fired, home-made evaporator
Glenlivet-fired operator
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