This is our first year sugaring. We have 7 taps out. I collected sap yesterday and tested each bucket. Our lowest was 2.2 and our highest was 3.0. We tested with a refractometer. Are these decent numbers?
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This is our first year sugaring. We have 7 taps out. I collected sap yesterday and tested each bucket. Our lowest was 2.2 and our highest was 3.0. We tested with a refractometer. Are these decent numbers?
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2018: First year Sugaring.
8 taps(3 buckets at the house, 5 taps on tubing into 5 gal pails at camp)
Block Arch
18x34 Silver Creek Maple flat pan
Yes those are good numbers. I'm lucky if I hit 2 on my reds.
Jake
smoky lake 2x6 drop flue SSR on homemade arch
235 taps on 2 gast 1550s and lappiere releasers
24x12 sugar house
2019 Kubota L2501 work horse
Those are good numbers for around here. My trees, mostly sugar maples, tend to run 1.7-2.2 range. This year they are 1.5-1.7. Where I used to sugar getting up to 3 was not uncommon but usually more in the 2-2.75 range. A lot of what you get for sugar depends on your location, soil type, how well the trees have grown, and so on.
Sugaring for 45+ years
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250 mostly Sugar Maples, 15% Soft Maples. Currently,(110on 3/16" and 125 on Shurflo 4008 vacuum, 15 gravity), (16,000 before being disabled)
1947 Farmall H and Wagon with gathering tank
2012 Kubota with forks to move wood around
Thank you.Very much appreciated!
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