I have bottled 19 gallons so far. I am going to stick it out another week or so. My Silvers are about done but the red and sugar/black are still tight and start late. I got 25 gallons this morning from the sugar/blacks and that is since last Sunday. I wasn't expecting to get any but some of the trees didn't know the weather was not right to give sap. The rest were better educated.
Checked my taps today and some of the woods trees were going pretty good but the yard trees are still tight. I will collect tomorrow and see how much I have.
Just pulled sap from 38 taps and threw out the ice. Tested the sap at 7 percent! Too bad it was only about 4 gallons!
Badgerland 2x6 drop flue to fire in 2015
Sugar Shack functional 2013.
Home Comfort wood cook for pancake sampling.
Hoping to grow the operation in 2017-18
Ice in the sap bucket = Poor Man's RO
Russell Berg
Mount View Sugar Bush - Since 1989
2004 5.5' x 18' Custom-built Stainless Evaporator w/ 7' Piggyback + Preheater
4,000 - 5,000 taps vacuum/gravity/bags
24' x 32' Sugar Shack
interesting, was always wondering if that were trueOriginally Posted by Pete S
FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
3,500' of laterals
1,000' of mainline
2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
Tapped on February 16, 2014
2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
275 gallon holding tank for 2014
20'x30' Sugarhouse
I envy the guys getting 100gal sap from 60 taps. I have 75 reds that I tapped the first weekend in March and I only have about 125 gals total from them. I also have 35 sugars that I tapped on the 12th and they have produced around 150gal of sap. Is it possible that the reds are done already? If that's the case I won't waste my time next year. Anybody else tapping red maples in eastern WI.
2010 - 15 Taps and an open fire made 2.5 gallons
2011 - New 14X10 sugar shack, 125 taps
homemade 2x4 oil drum evap with a Wegner Metal Works pan
three wonderful sap haulers (kids) and a wife that's very understanding
We tap all sugars except there might be a couple reds and they usually don't have much sap. We need to mark them so we don't tap them next year. We've collected 940 gals so far on 150 taps. 25 gals of syrup. Waiting for the big run the next 2 weeks.
150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N
those are some impressive numbers pop! We have collected 370 gallons from 220 taps and made about 9 gallons.
custom made 2x7 intensofire
With SL pans
250 deer run
300 3/16 (new 2016)
500 sacks around the neighborhood
sap started flowing again last two days. hoping my new pan is ready by this weekend to try out.
Cody
Rome WI
2010, 3taps couple pints syrup
2011, 10 taps= 29single pound jars, 22half pounders
2012, bad year
2013, 48 taps= about 15 gallons
2014, 96 taps.. so far
Trees went crazy today. Collected 260 @ 2%. Now I have to boil like crazy. Pete S. it was nice you could stop in today. Happy sapping. Collected 635 gals this week.
Last edited by WI Sugarpop; 03-31-2011 at 09:11 PM.
150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N
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