Originally Posted by
ennismaple
We've had our flue pan go ropey on us a few times - normally towards the end of the season and after its sat for a few days with just the right sugar content in the pan. My flue pan today was looking like it wanted to go ropey and the float box definitely was ropey. I drained the float box and drew off some concentrate from the valve closest to where it was starting to get a little thick. Once new concentrate was coming in I just had to watch the defoamer for 10 minutes or so and then it settled back down. It ended up being very good syrup and filtered fine.
Managed to push another 94 gallons of very dark to dark syrup today and with the hard freeze coming tomorrow night we'll likely get one more good boil on Tuesday before calling it quits.
Galena - nice to see you on Saturday and glad I could give you a bit of a tour. If you'd been there today you might have learned some new words... "someone" didn't check the concentrate levels going through the RO and created high-test concentrate that ran off so fast I couldn't filter it fast enough and had to stop firing for an hour to catch up on the filtering!
Was that "someone" you by chance? 
(In my case the only person I can blame if something goes wrong is myself.. 
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2023 -30 trees -24 vacuum, 6 buckets. ~1,845 L sap; Syrup count: 49.25L
2022 -30 trees -24 vacuum, 6 buckets. ~1,530 L sap; Syrup count: 48.65L
2021 -29 trees -23 vacuum, 6 buckets. ~1240 L sap; 34.5L of syrup
2020 -30 trees 32 taps. ~900 L sap; 27.1L Syrup.
2019 -27 trees 31 taps. ~725 L sap; 22.2L Syrup.
2018 -19 Trees 20 taps. ~750 L sap; 18 L Syrup
2017 -4 trees 4 taps. ~60 L sap; 1.5 L Syrup
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