Buddy showed up at my place yesterday also. Too bad, as I got 265 gallons, clear as well water, on about 150 taps, 27 inches vacuum. Sure destroyed my enthusiasim.
Is the ANY market for off-tasting syrup?
Buddy showed up at my place yesterday also. Too bad, as I got 265 gallons, clear as well water, on about 150 taps, 27 inches vacuum. Sure destroyed my enthusiasim.
Is the ANY market for off-tasting syrup?
Mark
Where we made syrup long before the trendies made it popular, now its just another commodity.
John Deere 4000, 830, and 420 crawler
1400 taps, 600 gph CDL RO, 4x12 wood-fired Leader, forced air and preheater. 400 gallon Sap-O-Matic vacuum gathering tank, PTO powered. 2500 gallon X truck tank, 17 bulk tanks.
No cage tanks allowed on this farm!
Pulled taps today still running good.Sap nice and clear but doesn't make good syrup.real light colored but a lingering taste and not maple taste.
Sap Hauler
-1996 Ford F250
-2003 Yamaha Grizzly 660
2016 Year:About 925 Taps on 3/16
2015 Year:About 775 Taps
2014 Year:About 270 Taps
2013 Year:About 265 Taps
2012 Year:About 200 Taps
2011 Year:About 200 Taps
2010 Year:About 65 Taps
Looks like one more small cook late tonight. Trees are running from the hard freeze today. Picked up 2340 gallons since Friday off and down to 750 taps and boiled it last night. Trees ran really good this past Saturday night after the 14 degree morning low and the sugar went up about 2/10". The syrup has somewhat of a off taste, DA in color but it definately was worth the effort. It boiled really nice. It did start to filter harder however, time to quit and looks like the weatherman will take care of that. Season turned out much better than I thought it would.
Mark
Where we made syrup long before the trendies made it popular, now its just another commodity.
John Deere 4000, 830, and 420 crawler
1400 taps, 600 gph CDL RO, 4x12 wood-fired Leader, forced air and preheater. 400 gallon Sap-O-Matic vacuum gathering tank, PTO powered. 2500 gallon X truck tank, 17 bulk tanks.
No cage tanks allowed on this farm!
Well it's that time of year again.Been out in the woods checking for any damage,few blow downs here and there at least they weren't maples.Funny thing though,out of all our laterals the light green colored ones have the less deer chews or squirrel chews on them.Was worried about that light green tubing getting hit harder than the light blue tubing.
Sap Hauler
-1996 Ford F250
-2003 Yamaha Grizzly 660
2016 Year:About 925 Taps on 3/16
2015 Year:About 775 Taps
2014 Year:About 270 Taps
2013 Year:About 265 Taps
2012 Year:About 200 Taps
2011 Year:About 200 Taps
2010 Year:About 65 Taps
Looking at the 10 day forecast here for SW WI and I'm having a real hard time talking myself out of tapping on Friday.
I agree. I am in Crawford County and I will start tapping Friday afternoon. I follow Intellicast weather and their 10 day is usually pretty reliable.
2019 47 taps and 10.75 gallons of syrup
2020 45 taps and 21.25 gallons of syrup
2021 50 taps and 13.5 gallons of syrup
2022 50 taps and 18.5 gallons of syrup
2023 49 taps and 18 gallons of syrup
2024 49 taps and 9.75 gallons of syrup
56 acres above the Mississippi River in SW Wisconsin
43.01N
Anyone else getting itchy trigger fingers?
I briefly entertained the notion of tapping next week, but I'm nowhere near ready to cook sap, so I guess I'd better wait.
Only gotta finish my thinning project, run a few more 3/16 lines, make 350 drops, install drop lines, set up my Shurflo pumps, move my pump line, finish bricking my cooker, install pans, plumb in a new feed line, and then I think I'm good to go.
So, next week probably won't work for me...
-Ryan
Went off the deep end. Might be in over my head...
I am not liking the forecast for next week. There is no way I will be ready to tap next week. With conditions much the same as last year it is concerning, but not a whole lot can be done about it. They are saying 50 degrees by next Sunday, and that is after much of the week above freezing except for one or two days. After last year I said never again would I be late to the game and here we sit yet again
Mark
Where we made syrup long before the trendies made it popular, now its just another commodity.
John Deere 4000, 830, and 420 crawler
1400 taps, 600 gph CDL RO, 4x12 wood-fired Leader, forced air and preheater. 400 gallon Sap-O-Matic vacuum gathering tank, PTO powered. 2500 gallon X truck tank, 17 bulk tanks.
No cage tanks allowed on this farm!
Well, I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone Mark. Last year sure was weird. Hopefully this is a short fluke and we don't miss much.
Question though, if you were all ready to go, and had the weekend free, would you tap?
-Ryan
Went off the deep end. Might be in over my head...