1200 gallons of syrup on 1% sap is a lot a sap! Thinking Feb first week may be the ticket over here.
I know this time last year we were in single digits....don't see that coming and the Lake has no ice to speak of. Did your test tap run today?
1200 gallons of syrup on 1% sap is a lot a sap! Thinking Feb first week may be the ticket over here.
I know this time last year we were in single digits....don't see that coming and the Lake has no ice to speak of. Did your test tap run today?
John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
I am going to put out my buckets around Valentines day or so, if the weather cooperates. If still on tubing and vac, I would be getting ready now.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
Jason - bet your fired up to be "back to basics". Spent the afternoon in the woods tinkering with the new 500 ft run of 1" main line, adjusting and checking slope, and this evening in the shop getting "stuff" ready. Will be putting up more wood next weekend and plan to tap right after that.
John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
Jeremy
Black Squirrel Lodge Family Sugarbush
Chardon, Ohio
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I tapped about 110 of 170 on my 3/16" lines this afternoon, will finish the rest tomorrow and possibly the other 125+ on the new 1" line. None of the trees were dripping and it doesn't look like much will happen this week, although some possible freezing later in the week. Hopefully we get a small run, as I plan to use it to flush the 3/16 lines out.
Next weekend I plan to hook the 3/16 lines up to the new sap lifter, work any bugs out of it and put more wood up with our son and son-in-laws. Sugar house is clean just need to take covers off pans and tanks, do some general set up stuff and we should be good to go....
Pretty excited about this year, got a few new upgrades and will have the trees I used to hang bags on, now on high vacuum.
John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
Got the rest of the 3/16 tapped today...they're running like crazy. No freeze here in the past 24 hours that I can see, and not a drop yesterday but with today's temps it was Katy Bar The Door...can't figure it out, but it's all good.
John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.
Johnallin, I know what your saying about the temps and sap running. I drained my pan and put my sweet in the fridge to break down and wash up. I went out at 1:30 and sap was running like crazy. I took 25 gallons down and build a small fire to sterilize it and reduce it (60 degrees had me nervous about letting it set). I looked at 4:30 and it was running pretty hard. I'll go boil soon as I get breakfast. Down here in the sunny south it had been three days of poor runs then it hits 60 and sap gushes ....go figure.
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
Started tapping today here. Hopefully be all tapped in and leakfree by the weekend.
Kevin
After letting them run to ground for a day, Monday afternoon I connected all the 3/16" lines to new the sap lifter. Sap was still running strong after running all day Sunday.. so I started up the vacuum pump and it worked great.
Sap was charging out of the lifter vertically, 20' feet straight up in the 3/4" line, and then on down to the sugar house. I was a beautiful thing.
Sugar was pretty light at 1.3% but that woods has not given much better in the past. Will be cutting and putting more wood up tomorrow then move on to getting every thing in the sugar house set up.
If it looks like good temp swings are coming this week, I'll finish tapping the 125+ on the new 1" main line we ran in early January.
Kind of glad I tapped the 170 I did last week as temps were much warmer that we're looking at this weekend. Might even get the Skidoo Tundra snow machine out for a spin - imagine that!
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John Allin
14x18 Hemlock Timber Frame Sugar House 2009
Leader 2x6 w/Patriot Raised Flue Pan 2009
Leader Steam Hood 2014 - Clear Filter Press 2015
Leader Revolution Pan and SS Pre-Heater 2016
CDL Hobby RO & Air Tech L25 Hi Vac Pump 2019
06' Gator HPX to collect wood & sap
14' Ski-Doo Tundra for winter work in the woods
Great Family 3 grown kids+spouses and 7 grand kids who like the woods
7th Gen Born in Canada - Raised in Chardon Ohio - Maple Capital of the World..<grin>.