I picked up another 1500' of tubing and various fitting to go with it yesterday from Briggs maple. Dave showed me his setup and we had quite a chat about the differentiation between maple cream and maple butter. I now understand that NB and NS has a regional confectionery called maple cream which is neither maple butter nor maple candy.
In any rate, he was a very helpful man and based on first impressions a credit to the industry.
Rob
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
New vacuum pump hooked up yesterday, now just need to hook up new booster & the pipes to it. Taps should be all in today. Sap may start tomorrow or Tuesday!
Murray
Somewhere around 800 - 900 taps on Atlas Copco vacuum
1 Sap Ladder & 1 can
2 1/2 x 10 Waterloo/Small, with Piggyback & hood,
Air over & under fire
CDL autodrawoff, Homemade drawoff/filter tank with pump,
Lapierre Sirofilter, modified steam pan bottler
Good morning,
Im about 30 minutes north of Moncton and tapped on Saturday. On Sunday I was working on the shack and went home for lunch when i got back most of my buckets had an inch of water in themI use 2 gallon buckets
I hope its a long season !!!!!!!
We finally decided on 404 buckets
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
2011-12 - 10 galvanized buckets and cooked in the kitchen
2013-13 - 230 aluminum buckets cooked in a plastic tent
2014-15 -400 Buckets ... Still in a tent
2016 - NEW SHACK 404 buckets
20' x 20' Sugarhouse
2x6 dominion&grimm evaporator
390 pallets and counting...
Homemade Autodrawoff
We're ready! Today's the day sap should start
Murray
Somewhere around 800 - 900 taps on Atlas Copco vacuum
1 Sap Ladder & 1 can
2 1/2 x 10 Waterloo/Small, with Piggyback & hood,
Air over & under fire
CDL autodrawoff, Homemade drawoff/filter tank with pump,
Lapierre Sirofilter, modified steam pan bottler
First boil of the year and first boil on my new 2x3 Patrick Phaneuf pan. https://vimeo.com/159288971
110 taps,buckets
Homemade 2 x 3
1983 ski-doo citation
2007 Big Bear
3 young pail dumpers
http://s732.photobucket.com/albums/ww322/Nemo5_photos/
Last night was my first 'boil'. It was more of a CRAP I need to finish setting up! Lol.
The Beaver and Cub scouts were here today to see the process. Some were amazed and others appeared completely disinterested. Maple taffy was a hit though.
The boil really started after that which was around noon. So far i've gone through about 80_90 gal of sap maybe more. 3 more barrels left....all are about 2/3rds full so ~100 gal left to go!
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2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
Today was a great day....~120gal of sap and its still dripping. One tree over flowed 2 5 gal buckets!
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
It has been incredibly quiet this year on the NB thread! I hope that is a result of a great season for all!
I am going to pull the taps this week I think.....so far I have 400+ gallons of sap collected (still one more collection run to do) and 5 gallons of syrup ....I hoped for more syrup from 400 gallons but it is what it is. The semi syrup in the pan may give me a gallon or two more
Had my first real scare while boiling, I had a constant trickle of 8 degree over the boiling point of water (OBW) syrup going for about 20min, 4 stokings, turned my back for 30sec and suddenly the temp was 20 degrees OBW! Doused it with sap and heard a lot of sizzling.....I checked the pan after everything cooled down and it didn't warp....thankfully!
This year was much better than last year....I learned a lot about running the evaporator and lots of adjustments noted for next year!
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
How many still have their taps in
I do in Cambridge Narrows, but pulling the plug after this weekend. Good season overall.
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