After looking at our schedules over the next couple weeks and the forecast we decided to tap on Sunday. We put in almost 90 taps and a lot of them started running instantly. I am hoping to get enough sap over the next couple of days before it gets cold again to give my new evaporator a test run before we get into the full swing of things.
Geoff
Big Daddy's Sugar Shack
2014 - 4 Taps
2015 - 8 Taps
2016 - 12 taps, propane boiler 6L
2017 - 100 Taps, 24L
2018 - 100 Taps, 100L
1.5x6 CDL Econo Evaporator
Thought I would throw an update in from the SW corner of NB.
We just came back from a week long Disney Cruise....we had not contact with the outside world, which was weird but nice at the same time. I guess the temps here were frigid all week, only one day of dripping according to the neighbours. Cumulative total of one full barrel from the taps I can see quickly but I still have 2 more barrels in the woods so fingers crossed for another 1/2 barrel.
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.
Originally Posted by Marvel26
We had 3 days worth of flow south of your guys in both Fredericton and Kingston area. I ended up with 50g of sap and a bunch of ice. I boiled Friday March 10th and came out with about 5.5L of finished syrup. Hopefully today was the last big snow fall and we can get back to business!
Geoff
Geoff
Big Daddy's Sugar Shack
2014 - 4 Taps
2015 - 8 Taps
2016 - 12 taps, propane boiler 6L
2017 - 100 Taps, 24L
2018 - 100 Taps, 100L
1.5x6 CDL Econo Evaporator
Started storing sap this afternoon, tomorrow looks good, then too cold until Friday. Hopefully opens up after that!
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
Fingers crossed for a good week. I don't have anything even close to what I had this time last year....maybe 3 barrels so far vs 6 last 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.
Yeah, I am not getting near as much as I was hoping for. Looks like we could have a strong week coming but not very cold over night. I have 10x the trees compared to last year and have barely doubled production season over season. So, although I am a small hobby with 100 taps I hope we still have 3-4 weeks left...
Geoff
Big Daddy's Sugar Shack
2014 - 4 Taps
2015 - 8 Taps
2016 - 12 taps, propane boiler 6L
2017 - 100 Taps, 24L
2018 - 100 Taps, 100L
1.5x6 CDL Econo Evaporator
very nice upgrades from 2016-2017. I hope you guys on the east get a couple more weeks also so you can really test it out.
225 taps 180 on vac 45 on natural gravity lines.
2x6 drop flue with auto draw.
Home built 3 x400gpd ro
2017 kubota M7060hdcc12
2019 can am defender
2017- first year 80 taps 22x36 home made arch and pan.
Checked the runs last night....cumulative amount is exactly 3 barrels (55 gal). I have 27 more taps than last year and less than half the volume I had this time last year.....the weather has not bee helpful but atleast the ice in the barrels will hinder souring.
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.
Started putting my taps in yesterday. I was away working so I'm a little behind the game. Last year along with my buckets I tried a test with 26 taps on 5/16 tubing and a shurflo for vaccine. It worked great. Yesterday I ran about 1600 feet of 5/16 and when done should have about 75 taps on it with the shurflo for vaccum.
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110 taps,buckets
Homemade 2 x 3
1983 ski-doo citation
2007 Big Bear
3 young pail dumpers
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Bottled our first 2 batches yesterday! Got 15 1/2. Had 5 or 6 gallons in drawoff tank for more than a week, because of cold weather. Hopefully it has finally turned for us.
We keep track of when we bottle, April 2 was that latest ever, so this was quite close. It was also our worse production, let's hope that's not the case this year.
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
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