
Originally Posted by
Fort Wisers
...Gelena, is the Brute your stove in Shack Wacky? Good luck, hope the shack's inaugural firing goes well!
Hehe Wisers, yep we've all chased after runaway buckets :-) SW has been fired successfully about 4x now, works great! However you won't see billowing clouds of steam or even much smoke if you're driving by. I am burning all dried wood and gawd what a blessing after last year. You see only heat haze. Oh I should say that you may see steam coming off the roof on a rainy day cause it's tin.
Brute is my big 70l garbage bin which has been used for nothing but sap storage. I have only 5 15l water jugs, also used only for sap storage, but in crazy times like when I've had 150l in holding, the Brute comes out.
I see double-digit temps in the near future so wondering if that quick a rise will kill the run?
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup