Hoping to be all tapped before Saturday. It's good to hear some are already making syrup!
Hoping to be all tapped before Saturday. It's good to hear some are already making syrup!
Smoky Lake 2x8 Raised Flue
Mason Arch
5 Buckets
300 Gravity
120 High Shurflo vac
7" Wes Fab Filter Press
Mason Finisher
Mason Water-Jacketed Canner
Good first week. We're at about 3600 gallons of sap so far, over 4 gallons per tap. Today the sugar was up to 2.5%. Believe it or not, that means we're at just about 25% of an average season. Looks like the week ahead is shaping up to be another good one!
Steven Abbott
Over 900 taps on vacuum
30" x 10' D&G Woodsaver evaporator with Steamaway
Half acre market garden
2 farmers in training
Should be all tapped by end of tomorrow except for a few road side trees . Still need to do a test boil with new to me evaporator. But almost ready. Next season will seem like a breeze with out swapping evaporators and redoing inside of sugar house just before the season starts . Sure will feel good to make syrup.
2 1/2 x 10 with steam away leader drop flue inferno arch.
550 in gravity
Got about 80% tapped today, still have one small bush to go through tomorrow. Hoping for the season first boil by next Wednesday.
Smoky Lake 2x8 Raised Flue
Mason Arch
5 Buckets
300 Gravity
120 High Shurflo vac
7" Wes Fab Filter Press
Mason Finisher
Mason Water-Jacketed Canner
Delivered first bunch of sap last thursday off 550 taps. Was up to about 700 tapped now. Will add some more tommorrow
2008---35 buckets--3 gal syrup
2015---150 on 3/16 gravity&50 Buckets
2016---350+/- on 3/16
2017---700+ on 3/16
2018---700+ on 3/16 added 500gal milk tank
We boiled on Saturday and got down to the bottom of the tank, now I'll bet it's filling up again! We will boil all week after work and hope to get it down there!
Got most of my taps in today. Amazed to see how well they were running for being mostly red maples. Going to finish tapping tomorrow, should have plenty of sap for first boil tomorrow night.
2019 99 taps on buckets (95 red & 4 sugar)
W.F. Mason 2x4 XL
Had out first boil in the new sugar house on Sunday. Gotta say we love having a real deal cupola. Still a few projects to get done. Made up the new head tank fill pipe so we can pump sap up to the head tanks. (Quick coupler outside the building then can pump into either tank by flipping the valve) Also got up another 60 taps on 3/16. Good weekend of work considering the snow, boiled off 225 gallons, pulled out the first 2 gallons of the season. Looks to be a good sap week coming. Oh and we might have gotten an RO as well...
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West Sumner Sugar House
West Sumner, ME
500 +/- Taps - 2 x 8 CDL Venturi - 3 Shurflo Solar Systems - MES Dolly 300
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Just putting in my taps here in Carrabassett Valley, 36 taps on 5/16 line (gravity) and 3 buckets. It was running well till 2:45 pm when a snow squall came through with a cold N.W. air and shut me right down. O well it's expected!! Gonna push into our uncharted sugarbush and use 3/16 for hopefully another 50 to 100 taps, all gravity, we are on a hill so that helps.
Boiled my first 25 gallons of sap from last week's 2 warm days. Made some very pretty light syrup. Yesterday’s 40 degree weather filled my buckets, so I am off this morning to collect! Looks good for the next couple of days here in Lowell, Maine.
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Last edited by Page Meadow Maple; 02-27-2018 at 05:49 AM.
Page Meadow Maple
Lowell, Maine
Leader Half Pint evaporator
80 taps: 53 buckets, 27 drop lines
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