2018 Spring Harvest

[Maplewalnut]

I was going to say the same as Parker but mine is a Lapierre also. The breaker has a little red pop button that is the reset

[Amber Gold]

Thanks guys and makes sense.

Kyle from H2O called first thing this morning. He thinks it's a fuse and there should be spares. Will look tonight after work. He's going to send me the fuse specs, so I can see if the local supply house carries them, and I can pick some up in case there isn't spares. I really like H2O's, but I wonder why they use fuses that pop when a breaker can be reset. Hands down, best customer service I've had on any product I've purchased.

[Russell Lampron]

It's good that they got back to you fast. I was thinking a tripped breaker too but a fuse makes sense. Hopefully you'll get it running before you get some sap.

[Amber Gold]

RO is back up and running...woohoo. huge props to Kyle at H2O. One 0.5 amp fuse was broken. Swapped in the spares and fired her up.

Out tapping trees today and stopped at the truck for lunch. Will get my sugar line tapped and hoping my 100 tap line too.

[Russell Lampron]

I'm glad that you found the problem Josh. I always like a simple and inexpensive fix.

[red maples]

Ha.... I knew it... Fuse. Well at least it was easy fix. Good luck tapping.

[Amber Gold]

Four day summary.

Tapping. Friday, got about 370 tapped and some repairs done. Finished the sugar hill line and almost finished the backwoods red line. Sunday, finished that line, fence line, and got the backyard lines half done…~350 total. Sunday, I got an unexpected surprised that set me back a couple hours. The discharge line from my releaser pump had broken the top of the elbow off and split the discharge pipe…water froze maybe?? Unplanned trip to Lowes to get fittings for a repair and another hour making the repair. Finished Sunday with the backyard line finished and the swamp line completed…all taps were in…I thought. I thought I had 900 taps to drill, but finished with about 890 taps in. Found out when I turned the vac. pump on and doing my vac. leak check and found probably 20 taps that weren’t drilled. A few 1-2 tap laterals and few full laterals that I missed. It took my two circuits of the woods to get it tight…seemed like more squirrel chew damage than usual too. Finished the day at 26.5”…pretty happy with that on my first day.

Even though I was hoping to have the vac. Pump turned on at some point Sunday, I don’t think I missed much sap over the weekend from not starting collection until yesterday evening. Overall, tapping and getting the woods online has gone well (everything’s working great), just took longer than expected with some unexpected repairs.

Submersible pump screen plugged up just as I was getting ready to leave last night (fortunately), so broke the releaser down, cleaned it off, and put it back together. Always happens for when the lines flush out, just a matter of when. Adjusted the top float because the pump was kicking on too late. Set at 24” from bottom now. Works better now.

Last night, I got the evap setup and ready for boiling.

Sap ran well overnight. Woods tank almost full, so hauled a load out this morning. Vac was reading ~29” with the sap running when I got my load. Really liking the new Atlas Copco pump!

I think that’s everything that happened over the long weekend.

[Russell Lampron]

We had a busy weekend here too. You didn't miss much Sunday. We got enough of a sap run to get the lines flushed and most of the woods walked to repair vacuum leaks. The sap has been running good ever since though.

[Amber Gold]

Tuesday was 1350 gal of my sap and 330 gal of other sap. Sweetened the pans and made about 15 gal of syrup. Wednesday, I hauled in something like 1300 gal myself and almost 700 gal from others. Made for a long night but made over 40 gal of syrup…made Amber for the first time in a couple years. Real good flavor this year.

During Wednesday afternoon’s pickup, I noticed the woods has some leaks on a couple of the lines…vac’s down to a lowly 22” in the woods (25” at releaser…thinking the releaser gauge is reading a bit high), but I won’t get to it until Saturday. Sap flow Thursday morning was nothing much, and based on the weather, I should have enough to boil tomorrow night.

Good freeze last night, so might run well today if it can get warm enough. Sun should help. Got 500’ish gallons in the tank this morning and 350’ish gallons at the sugarhouse. Will be boiling tonight.

[Dill]

Nothing really ran after noon yesterday. So you didn't miss much. I doubt we will get much today either. Saturday looks great.