Red maple tree tapping
Curious if anyone has any sugar Bush on vacuum that is strictly red maple?? If so what is your average yield per tap?? Or average run volume? I have 4 bushes and the two with red maple I have hard time seeing more Than .3 per tap, wondering if that's typical of red/sugar mix or straight red's. Syrup always excellent quality with the mix.
18x30 sugarshack
5100 taps high vac
3x10 inferno with steampan
7'' wes fab filter press
10'' cdl air filter press
D&G 3 post reverse osmosis w/recirculation
Are these swamp red maples or upland red maples?
About 750 taps on High Vac.
2.5 x 8 Intens-O-Fire
Airtech 3 hp LR Pump
Springtech Elite 500 RO
14 x 24 Timber Frame SugarHouse
16 x 22 Sap Shed w/ 1500 gal. + 700 gal. tanks
www.littlehogbackfarm.com
I have 230 reds and 20 sugars on guzzler vacuum (19-20") and get 130-150gallons average run. My best run was 330 gallons in 12hrs. Most of the trees are 10"-14" dbh. These trees are all within 150' of a stream that runs all year.
Mike
12 x 16 Sugar house
18”x72” CDL drop flue
Homemade 4 post RO
125 taps on vacuum (Guzzler)
Smoky Lake 7” filter press
That's darn good, some seem to really run good under vac when look thru clear spouts, but I can't tell overall since I have a heavy mixture
18x30 sugarshack
5100 taps high vac
3x10 inferno with steampan
7'' wes fab filter press
10'' cdl air filter press
D&G 3 post reverse osmosis w/recirculation
Upland reds, soft maple.....Not the real shaggy silver/ swamp maple
18x30 sugarshack
5100 taps high vac
3x10 inferno with steampan
7'' wes fab filter press
10'' cdl air filter press
D&G 3 post reverse osmosis w/recirculation
I have a couple of lines with reds and never did much running until i added vacuum to them. Mine run like a bugger early in the year but dry up quicker than my sugars. These are all yard trees and get full sun. They are usually around 1.8 to 2.0 sugar and i get a gallon or better per tap early on and .5 gallons a day at the end of the season.
2021 230 Taps on vacuum
Smokylake 2X6 pan set with auto drawoff
Homebuilt 2 4x40 membrane RO
Homebuilt filter press
Rebuilt arch with under and over the fire air we have named V 2.0
Smokylake steam bottler
Hoods and preheater
500 gallon vertical polytank to store sap for RO
Adding a laser eye to my bottler for autofill/stop
I have all Reds. I hooked up 85 taps/trees to vacuum this year and surprisingly pulled out about 15 gals/tap. I put 50 trees on buckets and only emptied them three times; probably averaged 3 gals/tap. I'm sold on using vac. for Reds.
2015 - 40 buckets w/ drop lines
275 oil tank evaporator
2x4 flat pan
made 5 gallons!
2016 - 90 buckets
same evaporator and pan
hoping to make 12 gallons
2017 - 85 taps on vacuum w/lunchbox
50 buckets
Smoky Lake 2X4 drop flue pan
Wanabe- similar experience little to nothing on gravity pouring on vac.
18x30 sugarshack
5100 taps high vac
3x10 inferno with steampan
7'' wes fab filter press
10'' cdl air filter press
D&G 3 post reverse osmosis w/recirculation
I have 700 taps and 90% of them are reds. I typically get around a quart per tap. I have them all on vacuum and have been able to maintain 27" this season. I haven't reached the quart per tap yet but am real close.
If you've got reds and can put them on vacuum tap them they make great tasting syrup. If you don't have vacuum don't bother. They are too finicky on gravity.
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!
Years ago PMRC didn't tap red maples at all. We really don't discriminate any longer. Currently about 20+% of our taps are red maple and our production is fine. They do well on high vacuum with good sanitation.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
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