If you're going to have a sap flow stoppage it's better to have it be because it is too cold. You will get your sap and it's going to come all at once. I'm glad that you are liking the RO. This will be the 11th season with mine if you can believe that. It doesn't seem like it has been that long. It sure is fun drawing a lot of syrup off in a short amount of time isn't it! I've been using about a cord of wood to make 100 gallons of syrup. I don't count how many boiling sodas it takes.
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!
3-16 is amazing!
first year 2012 50 taps late season made 2 1/2 gals.
2013 2x6 homemade arch 180 taps. 20 Gals.
2014 40 on 3/16 gravity 160 on buckets.
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Brandon, you still going?
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
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Yes still going here. Lines been out of tank since Friday night. Got unexpected mini freeze lay night and stuff ran in ground for while today which helped clean snot out of lines. Got to 70 today and sap kept running. Probably quit by morning or noon tomorrow but 3/16 was cranking this afternoon. Hope to have 500 or so to boil tomorrow afternoon and a better freeze forecasted for tomorrow night and much cooler rest of week. Showing mid 20's Sunday night too so we keep praying hard and hoping for the best. All taps are leader seasonal on new 3/16 and check valves on all the 5/16 so hoping they hold out until April. Not very much warm weather as mostly cold days other than last 10 days.
Brandon
CDL dealer for All of West Virginia & Virginia
3x10 CDL Deluxe oil fired
Kubota M7040 4x4 Tractor w/ 1153 Loader hauling sap
2,400+ taps on 3/16 CDL natural vacuum on 9 properties
24x56 sugarhouse
CDL 1,000 2 post RO
WEBSITE: http://danielsmaple.com
Boiled 560 gallons today and supposed to be in low to mid 20's tonight, so hope it gets the trees re-fired tomorrow and off to the races again. Snow nearly all gone and frost should be about gone too. Showing freezing 3 nights in row starting sunday, so hopefully one more run maybe after this week.
Brandon
CDL dealer for All of West Virginia & Virginia
3x10 CDL Deluxe oil fired
Kubota M7040 4x4 Tractor w/ 1153 Loader hauling sap
2,400+ taps on 3/16 CDL natural vacuum on 9 properties
24x56 sugarhouse
CDL 1,000 2 post RO
WEBSITE: http://danielsmaple.com
Boiled 460 more today and sap running good. Majority of it is coming from 3/16 tubing. Hoping to get small freeze tonight and sap will run couple more days. Got down to 24 to 25 last night for several hours. Started with clean evaporator and raw concentrate yesterday and syrup is a light dark which is good since we are in week 7 since we started. 7900 gallons of sap and Aprox 140 gallon of syrup so far about 57% of full crop.
Brandon
CDL dealer for All of West Virginia & Virginia
3x10 CDL Deluxe oil fired
Kubota M7040 4x4 Tractor w/ 1153 Loader hauling sap
2,400+ taps on 3/16 CDL natural vacuum on 9 properties
24x56 sugarhouse
CDL 1,000 2 post RO
WEBSITE: http://danielsmaple.com
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