Thanks Chris!!
It was a good day for sap. I had about 15 gallons from the last two days. Ended up with a little more than 3 gallons of 7% after RO
Thanks Chris!!
It was a good day for sap. I had about 15 gallons from the last two days. Ended up with a little more than 3 gallons of 7% after RO
Last edited by Skeller001; 02-19-2019 at 08:36 PM.
Steve
SE Pennsylvania
2022 - 13 taps, RO5, 21x24 SS pan with pre-warmer pan, backyard made wood fired 55gal drum stove - 17.25
2021 - 18 taps, RO5, 21x24 SS pan with pre-warmer pan, backyard made wood fired 55gal drum stove - 12 pints
2020 - 13 taps, RO5, backyard made wood fired 55gal drum stove with 2 lg 6 deep pans - 6.75 pints (very warm winter)
2019 Rookie Season - 14 taps, RO5, turkey fryer with 6 deep pan - 16.5 pints
Last week me and my girls collected around 130 gallons of sap and got to boil on Sunday and Tuesday. It made for a couple fun days. Can't wait to see how my trees run until Sunday. I have my little ones all worked up about the mega boil coming on Sunday!
Chief103:
That's great to get the kids involved! Sounds like you are cranking in the sap!
This weekend looks really good. Last night I got 55gallons of sap from my 90 reds on vacuum
here at the house in about 5 hours.
How many taps do you have?
115 red maples on vacuum
100 taps on 5/16 gravity
35 taps on 3/16 gravity
50 taps on shurflo vacuum
about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
neighbor bringing from 45 taps
30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
Homemade 125gph Ro
Lots of Homemade Equipment!
http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/
We tapped in on 2/3/19. 30 on 3/16 . Boiled the last 2 weekends 157 gallons. Sugar is averaging 1.4ish. Boiling today from this weeks haul. Hoping sugar gets higher. I'll let you know.
Just a hobby.
2012 Don't want to talk about it.
2013 6 Buckets 2.75 gallons
2014 20 on 5/16 ,10 Buckets 7.75 gallons
2015 30 on 5/16 , 10 Buckets 9.5 gallons
2016 43 on 3/16 , 0 Buckets , 623 gallons sap, 11.89 gls.
2017 43 on 3/16 527 gallons boiled, 9 gals. Syrup
2018 43 on 3/16 453 gallons sap 9 gallons syrup
2019 30 on 3/16 9.5 gallons
3 Burner propane
Paddy mountain I have 42 taps on buckets an bags and a few more taps to put in. But I'm waiting all little because I'm not sure how much they will produce and I don't want more sap than time allows me to handle!
Today was a high for me, 4.5 pints. That is up from 3 each of the last two weeks and 1 the first week. So my season total is at 11.5 pints. That is higher then my goal of a gallon and it looks like there may be a few weeks to go???
My syrup is getting darker. The first 2 times it was very light and I thought I did something wrong but it tasted great. Today it looks like what I am familiar with. I heard it gets darker throughout the season and near the end it is better to use for baking and not syrup. Is that correct?
Thank you all for the guidance, it is truly appreciated!
Steve
SE Pennsylvania
2022 - 13 taps, RO5, 21x24 SS pan with pre-warmer pan, backyard made wood fired 55gal drum stove - 17.25
2021 - 18 taps, RO5, 21x24 SS pan with pre-warmer pan, backyard made wood fired 55gal drum stove - 12 pints
2020 - 13 taps, RO5, backyard made wood fired 55gal drum stove with 2 lg 6 deep pans - 6.75 pints (very warm winter)
2019 Rookie Season - 14 taps, RO5, turkey fryer with 6 deep pan - 16.5 pints
I think that is correct but last year I made my lightest syrup the last 2 weeks of March. I think last year was strange though.
Folks,
Making syrup, completing bathroom remodel, visiting with sugarmakers, resting! Boiled 4 times. Sugar content good! At 41 gallons and it is all Amber at this point.
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
We are catching our breath here after the (whirlwind) weekend! On Friday we gathered around 385 gallons of sap.
Started boiling at 6:00 and gave up around 12:30am. Got up Saturday and spent all day butchering
2 pigs. Sunday after church, got my sausage and bacons in the smokehouse. Then went and brought in another 300
gallons or so of sap. Started boiling around 4:00. We were on a really good roll to get it all kicked, and amazingly
had made around 9 gallons of syrup! At 9:30 we lost power with about 75 gallon to go! Still no power Monday morning
so got up at 6:00 and tinkered with the generator (grrrr..) to get it going. Pretty well running on vapors until last night.
It might be sacrilege for a sugarer to say " glad for a couple day freeze" , but don't think I could of continued at that pace!!!
Still have the 9 gallons to filter and bottle , and need to look at some lines. It doesn't look like we will get another run
until Thursday or Friday.
115 red maples on vacuum
100 taps on 5/16 gravity
35 taps on 3/16 gravity
50 taps on shurflo vacuum
about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
neighbor bringing from 45 taps
30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
Homemade 125gph Ro
Lots of Homemade Equipment!
http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20Sugarshack/
Season has begun for me . Tapped 32 trees and sap was running good. Next couple of days look good.
2011 - 6 buckets
Stove Top
2012 - 15 buckets
2013 - 19 buckets
Camper cook stove with 3 high propane burners
Custom made 42x14x7 maple pan with dividers
2015 - New 12x16 Sugar Shack
2015 - New Lapierre Propane Evaporator
2016 - 28 buckets
2017 - 30 buckets
2019 - 32 buckets
2023 - 32 buckets - Good to be back
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