bmbmkr -You guys on the river ought to be in full swing by next week. I hope you have a great season. The evaporator looks pretty good, I bbet you'll like it once you get all tuned in.
bmbmkr -You guys on the river ought to be in full swing by next week. I hope you have a great season. The evaporator looks pretty good, I bbet you'll like it once you get all tuned in.
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
Dana I'm getting same feeling about temps. if believe forecast for 7-10 day not seeing another real freeze up for a while. Seems the mid February freezes getting few and far between.
Oh well have to take and enjoy what mother nature gives us. At least last couple years getting the potatoes planted early.
Had to replace some of the new drops already, squirrels had got them even before got tapped. Had .22 with me so 3 will be in the frying pan instead of chewing lines.
24"x57" homemade evaporator
with forced air
24"x24" syrup pan with hood
24"x33" drop flue pan with hood and pre-heater
Homemade 12 gallon canner with steam heater
UV light for 2011
homemade RO for 2012 (no more raw sap for me)
Added 2nd RO membrane in 2013
Gas powered Gast Vacuum Pump
Built RO room for 2020
Mel, I 've had good luck deterring squirrels with sriracha sauce on the trees
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
Will have to try that. They seem to love to chew an inch or 2 each side of tee and 4-6" up on drop.
Can you spray it or need to brush it on?
24"x57" homemade evaporator
with forced air
24"x24" syrup pan with hood
24"x33" drop flue pan with hood and pre-heater
Homemade 12 gallon canner with steam heater
UV light for 2011
homemade RO for 2012 (no more raw sap for me)
Added 2nd RO membrane in 2013
Gas powered Gast Vacuum Pump
Built RO room for 2020
It's kind of thick so you can brush it on, but I get the bottle that has a twist top and just squeeze some out . It last a long time and will withstand a few rains
I tapped the rest of my trees today, 118 total taps
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
Thanks, will get a few bottles and give them something to think about.
Looks like might get sap started some Thursday, then good for a few days of sap. Woods still froze up today after last night.
24"x57" homemade evaporator
with forced air
24"x24" syrup pan with hood
24"x33" drop flue pan with hood and pre-heater
Homemade 12 gallon canner with steam heater
UV light for 2011
homemade RO for 2012 (no more raw sap for me)
Added 2nd RO membrane in 2013
Gas powered Gast Vacuum Pump
Built RO room for 2020
I'm in Columbus with yard trees and put in 14 taps on Saturday 1/18. So far I've collected:
11 gallons on 1/19
16 gallons on 1/24
9 gallons in the morning on 1/25
That's half my taps, and I'll try to get the rest in today. Sap has been 1.9 or 2% but not getting the big runs like last year.
2021: 28 taps. 18"x36" flat pan and dual natural gas burners.
2020: 31 taps. 3 full size steam table pans on a custom 6x water heater natural gas burner setup.
2019: 31 taps on silvers. Back porch gas cook top with 2 full size steam table pans. An amazing 14.9 gallons in my backyard!
2018: 22 taps on 9 silvers. Propane turkey fryer and full size steam table pan on electric stove. I made 4.25 gallons in my backyard!
I had a small run yesterday and a decent run overnight. I boiled a total of 115 gallons of sap and made just shy of 2 gallons of syrup. It's still running but slowed up, so I'll have at least a small boil tomorrow, but hope for at least 50 gallons of sap.
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
Had runs Friday and Saturday. nothing today.
Sap running low again this year. 1.5 best so far. Got 5 gallon made so fair, real light stuff.
See "cold " temps this week but thinking be a long shot to get even a few days of way below freezing rest of this season this year. Hope I am really wrong.
24"x57" homemade evaporator
with forced air
24"x24" syrup pan with hood
24"x33" drop flue pan with hood and pre-heater
Homemade 12 gallon canner with steam heater
UV light for 2011
homemade RO for 2012 (no more raw sap for me)
Added 2nd RO membrane in 2013
Gas powered Gast Vacuum Pump
Built RO room for 2020
Tapped a week and half ago little to no sap on 36 taps so far in Summit County.