South Central Ohio early taps in sap running

[Maplefarmall]

I got 750 gallons of sap today and as of 1 hour ago it was still running decent

[bmbmkr]

My RO broke down the other night, water filter imploded, went through the 330 Procon and blew the top off one of the membrane vessels, broke the Permeate tube on the membrane- $270 membrane, $200 Pump and $100 for a larger, higher flow filter and cartridges- got everything back together late last night, working down 1200 gallons of sap right now! SO far sugar has been 1.5% . Sugar dropped this week for my neighbors in KY, but ours is still holding steady.

[buckeye gold]

bmbmkr, sounds like a tough break down. John B. stopped by my sugar shack today and asked if I had heard anything out of you. I told him you had expanded and going full bore and putting his milk tanks to good use. That pleased him that you are getting use out of them. The wind killed my run last night, but I still cooked off 60 gallons today. My sugar is holding good at 1.6. It is running some now, but probably won't be a lot. Tomorrow the flood gates should open back up. Looks Like a solid week of syrup making. Hope you can keep the gremlins away from your operation from here on.

[Redbean]

Made over 2 gallons of syrup the past two days. The sap stopped running this morning but after 3pm today it started to run again. Its looking like a good year. I know to most, two gallons of syrup in two days is nothing. But for a small producer with 50 taps its going pretty well. Thats over 8 gallons for the year so far. I might just break my record of 14 gallons on 50 taps.

[bmbmkr]

bmbmkr, sounds like a tough break down. John B. stopped by my sugar shack today and asked if I had heard anything out of you. I told him you had expanded and going full bore and putting his milk tanks to good use. That pleased him that you are getting use out of them. The wind killed my run last night, but I still cooked off 60 gallons today. My sugar is holding good at 1.6. It is running some now, but probably won't be a lot. Tomorrow the flood gates should open back up. Looks Like a solid week of syrup making. Hope you can keep the gremlins away from your operation from here on.

Buckeye,

It has been a season lol. I'll keep all the gremlins here, I'm gettin used to em. I made a little over 16 gallons of Syrup Wed-Thurs, was worried about some of the sap being a couple days old, but that 800 gal tank I got from John kept it at 36-38F even though it was 50 somethin outside. Sap was still sweet and every bit of the syrup was good. The end was mighty dark, my poor pans is pretty nitered up, I'm headed up now to put some pan cleaner in it. Ran all the sweet out with permeate yesterday morning.. Now that I've got everything back together, I'm hoping to get back to boiling a couple hours instead of all daggone night. Looks like we should get a couple a good runs this week.

Ben

[RaisingKFarm]

We put out 30 taps Monday, collected about 55 gallons Thursday. Put in 10 more taps and will finish another 20 today. I'll be firing up the ole Leaders 1/2 pint today to get the season "rolling".

[buckeye gold]

bmbmkr, It's been a good week for sure. You ever feel like you wouldn't be too upset if the sap didn't run a bunch for just one day? I have filled all my holding containers and had to start getting into my wife's canning jars. Gonna have to be a bottling day tomorrow. My sugar is holding great and actually going up to 1.8%. I may just call it quits early this year. If next week is as good as this I'll have enough syrup to fill all the bottles I bought. If I can get that done before it starts getting hard to filter I'll be happy. If what we're seeing is any indication of what the northern syrupers are going to see there should be some happy campers.

[bmbmkr]

Buckeye,

I had a good slow day yesterday, cleaned up everything, got my very nitered up pans soakin in cleaner- moved some stuff around in the shed, neighbors came down and we squeezed 45 gallons of their bucket sap to 9.4% in the RO. I went up to Dad's and was surprised to find 250 gallon in the tank, hauled it down and had another 250 in my woods tank, didn't think it would run yesterday. So now I'm squeezin this 500 down and https://www.saptapapps.com/flowcast/ is showin a good run for today, tomorrow and Tuesday. This website has been pretty accurate. My trees are on the north side of the hill, they don't start til about noon usually and sometimes run through the next day. A couple weeks ago with the warm weather and my gremlins, I thought this season might be a bust. I still have trees right here behind my house that I haven't tapped yet. Hope it keeps this up for a couple a weeks. I have enough retail containers for 60 gallon. 9 Soda kegs, and a 10 gallon SS milk can will hold 55 more. Goal is 100 this year.

[bmbmkr]

We put out 30 taps Monday, collected about 55 gallons Thursday. Put in 10 more taps and will finish another 20 today. I'll be firing up the ole Leaders 1/2 pint today to get the season "rolling".

Sounds good RaisinK, Were are you located? I'm in the heart of Lawrence County, Willow Wood, OH.

[RaisingKFarm]

Far northern Perry Co. Up on a small mountain. Boiled till 2 am this morning, ran about 50 gallons in 6.5 hrs, roughly. I have a 2x3 Leader 1/2pint supreme setup. have another 80 gallons waiting.. Sap is just pumping out. We’re stopping at 40 taps this year. Sugar content is avg above 2.5!