First Draw
Drew off my first syrup last night. I had two draws and each one was a quart and a half. Med amber and plenty of niter... two prefilters and the felt did the trick though... I drew off directley in to my finsher with the filters on top... worked great.. I need sap!!!!!!!!!!!
CDL/Maple Pro 20 x 66 Raised Flue all S/S
12 X 20 Finisher WF Mason
270 Gal W F Mason S/S Holding tank
12 x 16 Sugar House
225 Taps Gravity
Kubota B7510, LA302 Loader,,
Stihl 036/ Lafonte Spiltter
I am envious. I am waiting for sap to make my first syrup also. I had biscuits for supper last night plain as I am not in the mood to buy my syrup just yet.
Last edited by KenWP; 03-13-2009 at 02:01 PM.
maybe 50 taps for 2011
Finally ready to boil when I get enough sap
I just might be crazy.( make that I know I am)
Trees all tapped except the ones with 5 feet of snow.
Enough rabbits to keep Elmer busy..
Be patient Grasshopper
Here in northern NH, we generally make more syrup in April than in March.
Too cold right now but....
If the weather forecasters are rights, things will run on Sat thru Monday. Spose to be a high of 47 Tomorrow (Sat), 46 (Sun) and 43 (Monday) with hard freezes in between.
2012: Probably 750 gravity taps and 50 buckets.
600 gal stainless milk tank.
2 - 100 gallon stock tanks
one 30 gal barrel
50 buckets
3' x 10' Waterloo Raised Flue wood fired evaporator w/ open pans.
12" x 20" Filter Canner
Sawmill next to sugarhouse solves my sugarwood problem
Gather with GMC 3500 2wd Pickup w/ 425 gallon Plastic Tank.
Been tapping here in Lyman NH since 1989 but I've been sugaring since 8 years old in 1968.
We've got about 250 of 300 or so taps set out and haven't had a decent run yet. Maybe about 75 frozen gallons. We'll probably sweeten the pans on Sunday. Pretty much the same time as last year.
2 x 6 Grimm raised flue for 2012 season. Rebuilding a 3 x 13 for 2013. 51 Ford 8N, St. Bernard, 30+ chickens.
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Geography
Cardigan99 - It's amazing, I'm 40? miles south of you and 900 ft elevation and I'm at 3.4 gal/tap as of last night. Ran hard after 3:30PM today. You'll get a real charge this weekend! Good Luck! Bruce
Bruce Treat
825 Sugar Maple Taps
3/16 w/ DSD .225 Spiles
H2O RO
H2O 2.5 X 8
Bow, New Hampshire
The same thing happened here in Loudon yesterday. It didn't thaw out until 2:30 and didn't start running good until 3:30 or so. It was still coming in good at 5:30 when it was only 31 degrees in the shade. I am over 3 gallons of sap per tap as well.
Russ
"Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!
1930 Ford Model AA Doodlebug tractor
A couple of Honda 4 wheelers
Four chainsaws and no chickens!
Don't feel too bad Cardigan. I'm pretty much in the same boat. I've only drawn off a couple of gallons so far but, this weekend should be a different story. It's been mostly dark amber with lots of niter also. I have to clean the Orlon filter after each draw from the evaporator.
Jerry and Teri Thibodeau
Weare, NH
2 X 4 Leader arch with Vermont 6 section pan
225 taps
210 taps on "Rube's" vac
15 buckets
Sweetend the pans today and pulled about 2 gallons of medium. Pretty much fully tapped except about 20 - 25 onesies. We've gotten pretty close to 300 gallons so it was a good weekend. Bruce I had read somewhere that 1000 feet in elevation was the equivalent of roughly 100 miles further north. We've still got a solid two feet of snow in the yard and a little more than that in the woods but I figure we'll loose half of that this week if the weather holds. First boil last year was 3/9 so we're almost a week later this time. Jerry, very little niter today. Hope this weekend went well for you.
Todd
2 x 6 Grimm raised flue for 2012 season. Rebuilding a 3 x 13 for 2013. 51 Ford 8N, St. Bernard, 30+ chickens.
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