Hi Traders,
Trying to update the season so far. Anyone make anything this week? I think it's cold everywhere but thought we'd check anyway.
Let us know
themaplenews@icloud.com
Send sugarhouse or tapping photos too.
Anyone anywhere making syrup this week?
Hi Traders,
Trying to update the season so far. Anyone make anything this week? I think it's cold everywhere but thought we'd check anyway.
Let us know
themaplenews@icloud.com
Send sugarhouse or tapping photos too.
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Yes will be boiling today in West Virginia, second boil this week boiled Monday, been getting some real good runs when temps jumps into the 40s, Yesterday with the high of 39 got a good run, conditions are near perfect here lows in the 20s plus we have snow! A neighboring camp has been production since the middle of January!
Mark 220 Maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/g...Maple%20Syrup/
Too cold here, nothing above freezing for at least a week. At that point, it still takes 2-4 days for the trees to thaw because of the extended hard freeze.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
Started today with 2400 gallons of sap which by my sap hydrometer was reading 2.1, started RO at 6am, started boiling around 11am when finished had 60 gallons of syrup in the barrels! A great day at Bowers Maple Farm. Petersburg WV
Mark 220 Maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/g...Maple%20Syrup/
Also three miles south at BESS Farms another 5 quarts of walnut syrup was produced, bringing the total so far to 5 gallons, the goal is 20 for the season, high dollar syrup, 2 to 3 dollars a ounce!
Mark 220 Maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/g...Maple%20Syrup/
-21 C last night and likely no days above freezing in the next few weeks so we're a ways off from making syrup in Eastern Ontario!
4,600 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
Twitter & Instagram: @ennismaple
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Takes a good bit of time for trees to thaw out after weather like that. Only -11 deg F here this morning (which strangely enough is colder than -21 deg C), and the wind coming off the lake is brutal.Originally Posted by ennismaple
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Dr. Tim If you get a chance go out to NOAA weather and look at Texas.
2004 - 2012 2x3 flat pan 25 to 60 taps
2012 2x3 new divided pan w/draw off 55 taps
2018 - didn't boil surgery - bought new evaporator
2019 new SML 2x4 raised flue high output evap. 65 taps
made 17 gal. syrup
2020 - only put out 53 taps - made 16.25 ga.l syrup
2021 - Didn't work out
2022 - 25 taps on bags / 8 taps on 3/16's line - late start
Trying to avoid looking at the weather, although I saw the pile-up accident in Texas on the news. Glanced at the thermometer when I got up to take the dog out this morning.... -12.8 deg F (~ -25 deg C). She did her business fast. Has warmed up to -1 deg F now (10:45am). Not a lot of snow here (5-6" on the ground), but darn cold. Probably not a lot of tappers out there today.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Minus 13 Fahrenheit here yesterday morning,big warm up this morning,it’s 8 degrees Fahrenheit. Usually tap this weekend,not looking like it though
7th generation maple producer in sugarhouse built in 1892
2x World Champion Maple Syrup Producer
1250 taps on cv adapters
Leader Vortex 3x14 with Max Flue and Revolution Syrup Pan,Enhanced Steam Away
www.leggettmaplesyrup.com
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