Originally Posted by
aamyotte
Just remember that the frame you make can take alot of storage space. Rope coils up small.
I use ice cream containers (the big ones when you buy ice cream at the ice cream counters) for my pails. I drilled a hole in the lid so the hose goes in tight. Rain water doesn't make it in. The downside is there is no handle. I have old dirty 5 gallon buckets that I tie the handle to the tree and drop the sap bucket in it. Haven't had one leak except where the knot on the rope let go and both buckets ended up on the ground. And murphy's dictated that it had to be on the day with the heaviest run of the year.
Thanks. I might do a combo of frames, ropes and ropes and bungees depending on the individual locations. Over the next 10 days much of the snow will melt, exposing them.
Speaking of the snow melting, if the forecast holds the temperatures look fantastic for sap flow. There are two days where the temperatures during the night, do not go below freezing. There still would be snow on the roots. Would sap still flow on those days?
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2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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