North east ohio 2018

[johnallin]

Are the rest of you seeing the flood of sap that I'm getting over here? Checking last nite we are 3x what was collected YTD last year. High 60's here and got another 1 1/2 gal per tap on the 3/16, 1 per tap on bags..

[Ekrueger]

I have also been flooded out the last two days. I had many buckets overflowing on Monday. I am averaging 2.7 gal/tap for the last two days combined. My sugar is still staying at 1.9%. We will see tonight if it kept going.

[christopherh]

Unbelievable amount of sap this run. Just finished things up tonight. My reds were 1.2 and the sugars were 1.9.

[Hunt4sap]

Yep, ran so heavy I could barely keep up with it past few days, with how wet our back woods is it's been all on foot carrying 4-4 gallon buckets at one time through two really bad spots( managed not falling face first a couple times were close )they finally slowed up tonight less than half per tap than previous 2 days.
Been some long days, but I enjoy it or I wouldn't do it!
My second year on my 55 barrel evaporator with 1- 20" x 4' flat pan and man dose it need some TLC after this year's work I've put it through...
Damper broken
Flue connection to barrel broke today while on full boil( that made for some tense hot work)
Many other small problems
Might build a oil tank evaporator to replace it completely, not sure yet tho...
Made 7 gallons so far after tapping on 1/20/18
Which is 5 more than 1st year, might pull taps this weekend as this will be 5 weeks of 430 am start time and 830 getting in house quit time...
Evaporated 58 gallon collection from yesterday today( all wood hand split)
Wish my work days would go by so fast, LoL!

[woodburner]

Really big run, made 30gal of medium to dark syrup. Run started at 2.2 and ended at 1.75. Finished up late yesterday. Filters look like the end of the season, really dark and slow to filter already. Hope now for cold and lighter syrup. Hope we can stay on the cold side of these fronts coming or it wil be over quick with all the rain coming.

[johnallin]

Is it me or is there more sugar sand than normal? Stuff is piling up in the corners of the pan!

[CrossBroMaple]

I agree john, I cleaned my front pan last night and I also had tons of sugar sand in the corners. Made close to 50 gal already on 550 taps hope we get some colder temps soon or it may be very close to the end...

[heus]

I have only made about 8-10% of my normal production. Have about 1200 gallons going through the ro right now. If we dont get some freezing nights soon (Sun and Mon could get close) I'm afraid, like Matt said, that we could be in for a real short season. My sugar sand has not been any worse than normal. My last run produced end of season-like extra dark syrup (which is my favorite, but I cant believe I am making it in Feb.). Sugar content has been real low, also (1-1.2%)

[WoodButcher]

MA and DA so far. The finished product is much cloudier than years past though, which my be from the niter...

[johnallin]

Boiled off another 160 gal yesterday with the kids...1 1/2 gal of med. No lighter syrup at all so far and still lots of sand in the pans. Put in some more bags yesterday trees were running a bit. Looks like they're starting a slow drip this morning.
Sure was a lot of boiling last week Friday- Sunday - Monday - Tuesday. Each one was a full 160 gallons in the head tank. Sure am boiling hard for not much syrup! Wood's about 1/2 gone and it's only Feb 25.