My trees gave up. I sure hope they start running when the mercury rises!
My trees gave up. I sure hope they start running when the mercury rises!
Folks,
Tapping the rest of the roadside sugarbush today. Hoping for a warming trend this week.
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
Sap started running again at my place. Nothing yesterday but 7 gallons today. My sap hydrometer arrived yesterday so I tested my sap. It tested out a 2.25. I am now running it through the RO and will do so a second time. I hope to have 6-8 gallons of concentrate for a weekend boil
After the first pass through the RO bucket I was almost 5%, then about 8% after the second pass
Last edited by Skeller001; 02-13-2019 at 07:13 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
Folks,
Got a sap run late yesterday but had other commitments today and couldn't get it gathered. It will be a challenge tomorrow. Probably many 100 lb sap cubes! Maybe can get some sweet from the center???
Warming some in the PM tomorrow.
Typical hurry up and wait!
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
Things are a little slow here. Hopefully it will run some tomorrow and Friday.
Last week I boiled about 240 gallons; sweetened the pans and made about a half gallon of syrup.
I have to say the window looks a little small for the next two days, but you never know.
Next weeks forecast doesn't look to promising either!
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/
Sap was running here as well. My tank at the main sugar Bush was frozen pretty solid so I wasn't able to collect anything there. But my one silver in the front yard was running pretty well. Got 2 gallons of 3% out of it today.
Adam
2016: 6 Taps and a propane turkey fryer
2019: 51 Taps on 3/16 gravity tubing
Homemade Oil Tank Evaporator
Badgerland by Smokey Lake 2x4 divided pan
Folks,
Yea this doesn't look great for syrup making till mid March if you can believe the Accuweather forecast!
Sometime today or tomorrow will be the great sap ice cube dumping competition. I feel bad I was not able to get out and get it gathered yesterday. Big mistake on my part.
May get a little run starting tonight and through tomorrow night.
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
I picked up another 8+ gallons of sap today. That is up 2 gallons from yesterday. So a little more than a half gallon per tree. If you guys are saying it is slow now what is normal???
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
Skeller001:
We are slower because it's a lot colder where we are located. I just went down and turned my vacuum off.
The roofs are dripping, but my lines are frozen already. Tomorrow will be a good day here.
Barely below 30 tonight, and almost 50 in the afternoon.
Then it looks to be cold until the end of next week.hth
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/
Gathered 180 gallons of 3%+ sap. Boiled it in with some new friends over tonight. Sweetened the pans to about 15%. If we get a small run tomorrow we might make syrup! Gathering was a challenge. Slush and ice in the tubs but no solid cubes! Whew, dodged a bullet on that one.
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