First boil today....on April 12th!
First boil today....on April 12th!
2014 - 6 buckets, 4 coffee cans and a propane burner - almost 40L of sap and 1.6L of syrup
2015 - 103 taps on gravity. Homemade oil tank arch and a Smoky Lake 2' X 5' hybrid. - 2.66 gallons of syrup
2016 - 101 taps, 550 gallons of sap, ~10 gallons of syrup all dark.
2017 - 138 taps, 225 gallons of sap, 5.55 gallons of dark syrup, still procrastinating on the vac.
2018 - ~150 taps, I lost track of the sap it was incredible!, over 20 gal of syrup, all dark.
We dumped the sap we got on Saturday, didn't think it was very good. Had a tanks all full anyway, finished up boiling sap yesterday. Just have to finish off the rest of syrup in pans & drawoff tank.
We're at 160 imp gallons, so ended up with an excellent season. Probably get another 3 or 4 from finishing up. We bottled for 15 days straight, which was quite a stretch of weather for us.
Murray
Somewhere around 800 - 900 taps on Atlas Copco vacuum
1 Sap Ladder & 1 can
2 1/2 x 10 Waterloo/Small, with Piggyback & hood,
Air over & under fire
CDL autodrawoff, Homemade drawoff/filter tank with pump,
Lapierre Sirofilter, modified steam pan bottler
Good Season here too... finished another 12L on Saturday/Sunday, and puts us up to almost 65L on the year. I would imagine the warm weather will kill the season for my trees down south as some of them were dry last weekend when I collected early Saturday morning.
I suspect I will have little to no good sap this Saturday, and will be pulling my taps and cleaning the buckets this weekend.
Geoff
Big Daddy's Sugar Shack
2014 - 4 Taps
2015 - 8 Taps
2016 - 12 taps, propane boiler 6L
2017 - 100 Taps, 24L
2018 - 100 Taps, 100L
1.5x6 CDL Econo Evaporator