Nothing today, started out with some snow then rain and now freezing rain, checked and lines had sap in them but froze. Well next week looks like a couple of warm up days and then cold again. Ahhh
Nothing today, started out with some snow then rain and now freezing rain, checked and lines had sap in them but froze. Well next week looks like a couple of warm up days and then cold again. Ahhh
10x21 sugar house
400 taps
227 gravity pipeline
Rest Buckets
We got a little movement today down south, but hovered around freezing. The woods are icy and limbs might start cracking. I don't need electricity to boil sap, though!
Jamie Jones
2017 - 120 taps, 68G syrup - automated pumping from collection to head tank
2016 - 118 taps (about half on 3/16"), 60G syrup
2015 - 115 taps, 58G syrup - new wireless blower switch and remote pump switch from tank to shack
2014 - 120 taps, 53G syrup - hobby vac
2013 - 120 taps, 40G syrup - Sunrise Metal 2x6, 12x14 sugarhouse
2012 - 44 taps, 6G syrup -gravity tube, 4 steam pans on block arch, plastic greenhouse shack - (I'm hooked!)
Got a little bit today. It is sluggish, but I am reminded that I need to be patient.
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!