Cooked for the first time today. 300 gallons turned into 200 gallons from the cold weather the last couple of weeks. Two runs of 150 gallons so far. Still lots of frost in the ground.
Cooked for the first time today. 300 gallons turned into 200 gallons from the cold weather the last couple of weeks. Two runs of 150 gallons so far. Still lots of frost in the ground.
2017 160 on 3/16th
2x6 homemade arch
2x4 copper drop tube flue pan
sawmill shed converted to sugar shack
Our forest trees have just started to run now and the yard trees that have been producing for a month are starting to get cloudy. We have processed 100g from our 40 taps and are up to 3.2gal with the latest batch being our best so far. Great flavor and amazing color.
2017 - 45 taps on buckets 260gal sap 6gal syrup
2018 - 92 taps on bags
All boiled on a homemade 2x5 fuel oil evaporator using 6 steam pans
100 gallons yesterday. Made about 3 gallons of syrup.
Looking for responses from northern MN operations, I have about 300 taps out and only about 700 gallons collected so far. The seemed to be coming out last weekend but things have been slow, looking to see how others are doing in this part of the state(Bemidji area).
sorry, meant to say the frost seemed to be coming out last weekend.
I have 71 taps over in GR and only collected about 40 gallons. Finally had some frost last night into this morning and home on lunch and have some good flow today it looks. Dang 7 day forecast keeps changing on us.
Not doing well here either 325 gallons so far, and forecast doesn't look good.
3x8 drop flue
300 taps on 3/16
Another 67 gallons tonight!