North East Ohio 2022

[johnallin]

Nah I’ll pass. My leader pans are awesome even after 14 years…am thinking of replacing the 2x6 arch with an air-tight and some AOF and AUF doo dads for next year.
The old Leader WSE just doesn’t like some of the wood I’m feeding it lately.
Have cut most of the deadfall stuff around here…locust and cherry which burned like rocket fuel…and am now into lesser quality fuel.
Now back to the movie:
Pulled in 450 gallons of 1.50% today on my 275 taps. Got it squashed down to 120 at 5%. In the tank and ready to boil off.
Lifter and releaser are cleared out for the deep freeze tonight. It looks good for the weekend and into next week.

Side Note:
There are easily 400+ available taps up here…until I decide to retire, it’s a lot more fun trying to make really good syrup than lots of syrup.

[miboss]

Yup but 3 years later you'll be buying new ones again........

4 years later, my SL is still like new and consistently boils 85 gph or more so I'm not sure why there's all the SL hate, I can still reach the SL owner on his cell any time of day. Now if you want to talk about that CDL releaser that I've been waiting on parts for 4 years ... I know it's not your fault, but big CDLs

[buckeye gold]

4 years later, my SL is still like new and consistently boils 85 gph or more so I'm not sure why there's all the SL hate, I can still reach the SL owner on his cell any time of day. Now if you want to talk about that CDL releaser that I've been waiting on parts for 4 years ... I know it's not your fault, but big CDLs

I have no complaints on my SL pan. It's 10 years old and been run like a runaway freight train. Still holding up and making good syrup. I lost a gasket one day and called SL and they send a gasket right away and no bill. I called and they just said it's on us. I know it wasn't much, but I was happy.

[miboss]

had a nice big boil last night. sap @ 1.5%, made 20 gal of mid amber (65 hanna) in 2 hours. woke up early this morning to drain releaser before it froze solid. Should be a busy weekend of boiling.

[woodburner]

Finished up yesterday’s run this morning, time to rest. We had a good run yesterday, sap at 2.4deg. The releaser was dumping every 4 minutes for about four hours, just as the wind shifted north it slowed. That is a good run on 300 taps.Hope everyone is feeling better about the season now as I am.

[johnallin]

Finished up yesterday’s run this morning, time to rest. We had a good run yesterday, sap at 2.4deg. The releaser was dumping every 4 minutes for about four hours, just as the wind shifted north it slowed. That is a good run on 300 taps.Hope everyone is feeling better about the season now as I am.

I started my vac yesterday about noon...sap was also pouring in and kept up until about 10. I shut down for the freeze up, pulled lines off the sap lifter and releaser leaving both open to drain whatever may trickle in until it completely froze over...didn't do that earlier this week and ended up spending an hour with a heat gun to thaw out the pump on the releaser - ugh. Should make some nice syrup tomorrow and then again over the weekend.

[christopherh]

I was happy to see 2.5 over here. Haven't seen that in awhile!

[johnallin]

Boiled Thursday's run last night and made some really nice light syrup. Started vac back up this morning but had to un-thaw the releaser again.
Sits outside the sugarhouse facing East and even though drained out still seems to hold enough water in the pump to require a half hour every morning to get freed up. Going to look into some heat tape maybe to prevent that from happening.

Today and the next several sure look like record-setting runs are coming.

Glad I've got lots of wood this year and figured out last night that it doesn't matter if i stoke the evap with bark-up or down (grin).
Am going to try to jury-rig an AOF setup this week to see if I can give it good boost, only seeing a max of 35 gph so far after 2 boils.

Get ready, it's game on.

[miboss]

Made 12 gallons from yesterday afternoons run, surprised it already turned dark (hanna 42), with all the ice that was still in the tank. Sap ran well today, I'm expecting full near full tanks by tomorrow morning if it runs through the night.

It seems syrup is darker than normal this season.

[miboss]

had a tree like branch come down last night and broke a lateral line, easy fix and back up to normal vacuum, sap all pumped up from yesterday evening and last night, getting ready to boil again. With these high temps, got to process fast.

Wind seems to be calmer than last night, stay safe out there!