2018 Spring Harvest

[Amber Gold]

Getting things ready. Spent a few weekends in the woods and got things ready to go. Fortunately, light tree damage this year, so it went well.

Ditching the liquid ring vacuum pump and going with an Atlas Copco rotary vane pump from MES. Tired of dealing with needing a cooling water source and not having one close by and the issues that entails. First time I’ve paid full price for a vacuum pump, and they’re not cheap. Pump is wired and mostly plumbed. Just some misc. parts I didn’t have with me to finish the job. Going for the big suck this year, and hoping I can suck the sap from all the guys in Loudon 😊

New truck tank on its way for pickup this weekend. Going with a 725 horizontal leg tank. The bigger tank should cut down on some of my trucking.

RO startup is tomorrow night. Hopefully no issues.

Really disappointed in the warm-up...them weather guys blew it again...we weren't supposed to get any sap in February and now it'll start running this week. Tapping this weekend.

Good luck to all this season.

[maple flats]

Good luck! I hope all goes well.

[Maplewalnut]

Good luck Josh, stay at it

[Russell Lampron]

Josh if you're going to suck the sap out of Loudon just concentrate on getting the sap from the ridge. I need all of the sap that I can get over here on my side of town.

Good luck with the new season.

[Dill]

He's ALIVE!

I highly recommend the Accu forecast it shows me making syrup til the end of april. Much better then the ever warmer weather channel one.

[Russell Lampron]

He's ALIVE!

I highly recommend the Accu forecast it shows me making syrup til the end of april. Much better then the ever warmer weather channel one.

I've been using the "NWS Now" app. It only goes 7 days out but seems to be the most accurate.

[Amber Gold]

Thanks guys. Good luck to you too.

Yes, I am alive...sometimes barely.

I generally use the NOAA app, mainly because I like the format the best. I really don't know if any one is better than the other. During the season, I look at NOAA, weather.com, and accuweather, and pick the forecast I like the best...early season, 25/40, late season when everyone else is showing 60's, I still like the one that's showing 25/40. It may not be right, but I like it the best.

RO issues tonight...OMG!!! Put the RO together, filled the sap tank, went to kick it over...nothin'...like nothin', nothin'. Poked around in the panel with my fingers and a multimeter, and I'm clueless...everything seems fine. Pumps are turning over when manually operated, so they still work. I started a thread and contacted the NA rep. Lets hope somebody's got some ideas. Good thing is I didn't wait until the last minute, and I don't think I'll be boiling until early next week.

[red maples]

there is always something right??? so the pumps aren't turning over at all? hmmm. but there is juice to everything? maybe a fuse in there? don;t know whats in there that doesn;t make sense.

good luck anyway... hopefully you can get a rep out to look at it although I sure they are busy right now!!!

[Amber Gold]

I'm figuring it's something simple...just need to know what that something is.

[Parker]

On my lapierre there is a breaker inside the panel that will pop..on mine u just push the brealer to reset

Goo luck!