I'm starting my taps tomorrow and see what i get. It's my first year solo and in 20 years, use to do it with my family in quebec.
south east virginia
I'm starting my taps tomorrow and see what i get. It's my first year solo and in 20 years, use to do it with my family in quebec.
Do you have sugar maples, or reds or something else?
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
I did about 21 tree's on one of my friends property, about 8 red maple. The rest are sweet gum tree's. Problem with sweet gum is not sure if it's producing thru stem pressure like maple or root pressure. still have 70 tree's to do.
It's 9 degrees here, everything is at a stand still, but the trees have sap!
sap.jpg
Waynesboro, Virginia
2015 first year 9 taps, turkey fryer and round pans
Turkey fryer with steam table pans, a little faster, but still lots of propane
Completed barrel evaporator for 2 steam table pans
2016 season - New design barrel evaporator, with pre-heat pan and combustion air blower.
!/4 cup of sap in 3 bucket so far
Is maple sap flowing there?
i'm going to check tomorrow. We had beautiful weather for it the past 2 days, 20's at night high of high 30's low 40's during the day. should be promising.
got 2 1/2 gallon of sap out of 4 maple trees, measured at 1.5%. pretty stoked about it
Very cool pic. WE have had a little flow but not much. Next week when it gets sunny and mid 40's hope it flows!
I think the internal temp of the trees is still pretty warm. That may slow them this year. Pls let me know if you do , Im not too far from you!
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