long boil yesterday
boiled for 15 hours stright yesterday, finished and bottled this morning ended up with one pint shy of 3 gal. one of my longest boils yet, nice med. color. this weekend will be the last run for me. pulling the taps sunday. its time to get back to work after a long winter, and trout season is next week.
2013 1st year for me. 20 taps, 55 gallon oil drum evap. made 5 gal. of syrup
2014 275 oil drum evap. new 2x3 pan ,20+ taps. made 7 gal. of syrup
2015 new 10x16 sugar shack, 53 taps on buckets, 11.5 gal. of syrup
You're finishing and we're praying for it to start. What a difference a couple hundred miles makes. Congrats on a good season (I hope).
Pete Nightingale
Lisbon, NH
3 Teenage sap haulers & Plenty of friends and family to restock the beer fridge
2012 1 tap and a pot
2013 10 taps, oil tank evap, 2 gallons of slightly too thin syrup
2014 48 taps improved oil tank evap 3.5 gallons, ouch??
2015 88 taps 78 5/16" and 10 3/16" nat vac 40"x 48" Homemade Arch 13.25 Gallons
2016 100 taps 65 on 3/16 & 35 buckets 17 gallons + unknown amount of maple / Jack Daniels testers
Nice job doing the same here working on a 200 + gal batch got called into work at 7 pm last night home now getting ready to finish in a hour so??? Still 160 sitting in tank in the snow so as soon as I finish this batch back to start again n whatever flows today? I don't try to filter n jar more than 5 gal at once filter slowing down n so on
2021 95 taps all on 3/16' natural gravity 2018 home built 4x40 RO 2017 1000 sap 15gal syrup 4 runs of 3/16 natural vac 1 of 5/16 2016 775gal of sap made 12gal syrup 2015 18.5 gal about 55 taps. Have the best wife! cub cadet volunteer 4x4 sap hauler
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