The new homemade R.O. I built for this year works great and took 525 gallons of sap at 2% down to 100 gallons of 11%. End of the season for me. Boiling off this concentrate this weekend. Hope to get a little over ten gallons of syrup
The new homemade R.O. I built for this year works great and took 525 gallons of sap at 2% down to 100 gallons of 11%. End of the season for me. Boiling off this concentrate this weekend. Hope to get a little over ten gallons of syrup
I am based in Murrysville and officially ended my season today. Sap hasn't been running much and red maples are starting to show signs of budding (most of my trees are reds). I pulled down all my buckets and cleaned all my equipment. Was a good season, lots of fun and a little over 6.25 gallons of syrup on 36 taps.
https://www.sugartree.run/2019/03/In...n-is-over.html
https://www.sugartree.run/2019/03/20...son-recap.html
Last edited by DRoseum; 03-31-2019 at 08:48 PM.
D. Roseum
www.roseummaple.com
~100 taps on 3/16 custom temp controlled vacuum; shurflo vacuum #2; custom nat gas evap with auto-drawoff and tank level gas shut-off controller; homemade RO #1; homemade RO #2; SL SS filter press
2021: 27.1 gallons
2022: 35 gallons
Folks,
Gathered everything this morning and made 6 more gallons of Amber Rich. Checked containers and they have about the same out there again. So will be making syrup again tomorrow if every thing holds together!
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
www.mapleandhoney.com
haven't had time to read the forums much since the start of march... I'll be pulling taps and sanitizing the lines later this week... I need to catch up on sleep... too many nights up til 3am...
I have a question regarding RO.... and I should post in the other forum... but when you guys RO say 300 gallons, how long does it take? I have a single 4x40, that I'm running at 190 PSI and roughly 200 GPH... just wondering how long it takes you guys to cut it by 50% . I'm only pulling about 15 gallons of perm / hour... I know I have a messed up bypass valve in the mix, but was too late to change it when I noticed it... but still, 15gallon / hour seems awfully slow I would think.. but maybe I am just over hopeful.. For next year, I envision a wall of like 20 RO 4x40 canisters all running in sequence LOL
50 gallons of syrup so far...
2019 290 taps on 3/16"
2018 20 taps on milk jugs
2017 10 taps on milk jugs
I looked around and it was April! Where did the season go? Still hanging on up north but it looks like we will be done this week. supposed to be 54 today, so it should run, taps are beyond a normal length of 6 weeks. I am keeping my sap quantity expectations low for the next several days. My wood shed had to be restocked with some split wood that was for the house when we had a wood stove in there. Might have enough wood to make another 10 gallons of syrup?
I havent heard the peepers, but some others have.
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
www.mapleandhoney.com
iby,
Good job getting 50 gallons of syrup made!
I believe today maybe the last day of the 2019 season in the great white north. Sap run was a drizzle yesterday. collected, boiled for a hour and made 2 gallons of Very Dark great tasting syrup. Will consider starting clean up in next day or so. It's been good. Lots of friends and family visiting during boiling events.
Regards,
Chris
Casbohm Maple and Honey
625 roadside taps + Neighbors bring some sap too!
3x10 King, WRU, AOF and AUF
12" SIRO Filter Press.
2015 Ford F250 PSD sap hauler
One Golden named Maggie, Norwegian Forest Cat named Lucy
Too many Cub Cadets
Ford Jubilee and several Allis WD's, and IH tractors
1932 Ford AAB ton and a half, dump truck
www.mapleandhoney.com