Put on the snowshoes and got 40 pails hung yesterday.
Langlade county
Put on the snowshoes and got 40 pails hung yesterday.
Congrats. I'm waiting until the 15th. Just to hard to lug sap for an old guy. What part of Langlade?
1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!
We are near Rose Lake. Fortunately there are enough trees just off our plowed lane that we don't have to venture in too deep. Still over three feet of snow in the woods. Old tap holes were at snow grade on most trees. Yes carrying full buckets will be a challenge.
Are you in Langlade also?
Nope, I'm in Shawano county. 25 years ago I fished Rose a lot. Walleyes and big Bluegills. My parents had a cottage on Rollingstone for over 50 years.
1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!
Well good luck this year. Hopefully this weather will knock the snow down a little for you. I will be setting up the stove this weekend and hope to boil next.
Picked-up 125 gallons of sap Thursday night and another 35 yesterday. Trees were running very well. Will finish cooking this morning and back up for more next weekend. Hopefully some more snow will disappear. Still tough carrying full buckets. So far the modifications to our barrel evaporator are working well. Running just short of 8 gallons of sap per hour.
6 taps on St Pats; only 3 had life until Friday (6 gallons), when things got running; four more added then and now have gathered 16 gallons, halfway to first boil. Ten taps in reserve.
Snow down by half since then; slopes now crusty enough to hold footing on trails anyway. Lake ice walkable and shoreline taps enjoy full access for now.
Scrapped my block and 3 pan operation last year to switch to propane burner and 8 gallon brew kettle, and dropped from 3 gallons throughput an hour to 1. Sucks, and costly, but better product, less work and out of the elements.
Trying to limit production to 5 boils. All I end up doing with more is give more away. Getting old, I guess.
seem to have peaked @ 20 taps: bags on hangers
Homemade RO
2 or 3 gallons syrup per annum, formerly with wood fire arch and batch pans
then Dark Star 2.0 burner and 8 gal Megapot Brew Kettle with ball valve
transitioning now to 30x17x9 flat pan
rarely have so few toiled so much for so little
Sap Aussie Gidget,
and my one and only Jill
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