Tapping UP Michigan

[goose52]

RMG in Rudyard Michigan got 31,000 gallons of sap yesterday. That’s a lot of syrup.

i assume you meant 310 gal.... my son had spring break so he stayed at camp with me for a few days... got maybe 40-50 gal of sap on some of those days... he leaves for a doc appt n i get 155 gal.... made for a a crown royal n aleve kinda night... boiled that down for 3 days n only wound up with only 5 gal of syrup even though i added another 70 gal of sap ... musta had a low sugar content... anyway that ran the total up to 13.5 gal of syrup so i pulled taps n cjeaned up... sounds like the run continued well into april but it was budding pretty good when i left for home. speaking of ro's, son says he's getting me an ro bucket for father's day... that should help....

[Ed R]

no misprint on the gallons of sap. that's at least 500 gallons of syrup in a day.

[goose52]

so you collected 500 gal of sap per day for 2 months? how many taps?

[Super Sapper]

I don't think it was him personally but they collected 31,000 gallons of sap in one day which makes about 500 gallons of syrup.

[goose52]

ah, i misread. i thought he was trolling so i was trolling back. my bad. need to slow down when i read these posts. apologies to ed.

[Ed R]

RMG has a pretty big operation. I bet all the big producers had two really big days that last week and a half of season. Kind of puts it in perspective when they make as much syrup in a half hour as I do in a whole season.