Sugar is not dropping as fast as we thought and vacuum is still pulling in a fair amount of sap here as well....
Sugar is not dropping as fast as we thought and vacuum is still pulling in a fair amount of sap here as well....
Sanders,
That is a very cool rig! Nice and clean and HOT! Yes should make some great syrup!
Gary,
We have to be realistic here! What the heck would I do with 16000 gallons of sap?? Hey those are 2% trees not 3%
Glad to here there are folks in the NE that are still making maple syrup!
Off to see Keith and help him get set up to rinse his tubing. I got all my remaining tubing rinsed with clean water yesterday. Will pick them up off the trees when it dries out a little.
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
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Season Stats:
First Boil March 9
Last Boil April 5
792 taps
347.5 gal of syrup equaling 0.43 gpt
25,570 gal of sap.
This makes a new record season for us, average being 275 gal, previous record being 321 gal.
Andy's Own Maple
Andy Kinter (4th + generation maple producer)
Approx 790 taps on vacuum
3x10 nat. gas fired raised flue small bros.
600 gph Lapierre RO
Fine collection of used bulk tanks
Kubota MX5100 sap hauler
2 hives (that I don't spend enough time on)
A great family that works together to make syrup!
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Well I'm still going at it while some others in the area are all done. One woods is still running very decent on 24" of vacuum and the sap is still nice and running over a gallon per tap per day with no freeze since sunday. Gravity taps are pretty much done and lower vacuum taps are also done I think. Still hanging in and boiling what I can. Im waiting for the RO as I type this, so it will definatly be a late night/morning. Have about 800 gallon to go through tonight and probably will have 3-500 plus tomorrow again. Gotta want it!
1150 Taps, one 250GPH RO, one 900GPH RO
2x6 Patrick Phaneuf Deluxe raised flue, with forced air, preheater,and stainless hoods.
18x50 Sugarhouse
2002 Cummins Sap Hauler
Well I finished up on Sunday now on to cleaning and then next season starts. I would categorize this season as just plain weird in quite a few ways.
I actually made more syrup with less sap than last year, but this season was shorter. In those fewer days the average run per day was less with a lot of mediocre runs. So when it ran the sugar content was better than average after the first few days. I had two times where I boiled 3 days in a row and I don't think I had to either time, where as in a typical season we normally would get a stretch of 7-10 days or more in row boiling.
1st Boil 3-12
Last Boil 4-12
Jared
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