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There were kids with donuts and drills running all over the place!
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2016 Tree Tapping.jpg
There were kids with donuts and drills running all over the place!
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
Looks like a blast!
Update
Lines finally let loose just after 3 PM. Sugar high. Will run all night.
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
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Cleaned the entire system this morning, pumped in 700 gal of milky, 50F sap, and the feed tank looked like lemonade and the syrup went from 47% to 58%.
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
Your sap was milky? Mine is still coming in crystal clear. What do you mean when you say that the syrup went from 47% to 58%, how many gallons of sap to a gallon of syrup? Mine is holding at 50 to 1.
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
Russ, I got a Hanna Checker, so that would be 58% light penetration. Milky, cloudy, lines and tanks are pretty warm, buckets are still clear. My 3/16ths orchards just went over 18gpt. No idea of my ratio cause I got syrup stored in wheelbarrows and totes. just poured off the evaporator yesterday.
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
Are those food grade wheelbarrows? How are your buds looking down there?
Salisbury Sugarworks,,Parker Rowe, and friends
Salisbury, N.H.
1988 taps in 09
over 2500 on vac in 2010
no buckets in 2010
2815 taps in 2011
shooting for 3000 in 2012
4000 taps? In 2014
5x16 wood fired "Mighty Marvin"
50 cords in the shed
Old, old R.O.
Charter member Andover/Salisbury Mapleholics
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Parker, doubt I'm a good bud reader, they look tight to me, however my peach trees look ready to fruit. Don't worry about the old wheelbarrow, lined it with a brand new tarp from Northern Tool!
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
Now I see. I wish I had that problem. All I have been able to make in the Month of March is golden. In February it was all Amber. It was a little darker last night so I think I am finally headed in the right direction.
As far as the buds go the 27" of vacuum is pulling them closed and the sap is still coming in. So far I am just over 3gpt from this run. It's supposed to freeze tonight and then it will be off to the races again tomorrow.
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
Street Sapping Man
Everywhere I hear the sound
Of marching, charging sappers boy
Cause the season's here
And the time is right for
Boiling in the street boy
Yup, making beautiful syrup here. Sap clearing up a little as the temps drop away from boil or spoil. Rigged up a little continuous permeate flow pan cleaning idea that seems to work really well. Sorta later bucket deployment my play right into the forecast. See what the tourist flow looks like next. Anybody seen a forecast on that?
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
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