How's everyone doing in eastern WI. We have 274 gals. of sap. Got our third boil finished today. Got 7 gals of syrup. Should really run this week. Gonna have to go like crazy after work every day this week.
Eastern Wisconsin
How's everyone doing in eastern WI. We have 274 gals. of sap. Got our third boil finished today. Got 7 gals of syrup. Should really run this week. Gonna have to go like crazy after work every day this week.
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
I've only got 10 taps in (half in box elder), but managed a half gallon of syrup this weekend. Probably another half gallon by the end of the week.
boiled for the 4th time today,tolal of 850 gal so far. have 20 gal of finished going to filter and bottle tomorow.
Inthewoods Sugar Bush
22 x 26 Sugar Shack (and growing every year)
3 x 8 CDL Dallaire cross-flow raised-flue evaporator with hood
Home-built custom Intensofire arch
600 taps on vacuum and 300 pails for 2013
H2O 600 R.O.
Bernard double releaser
SP22 vacuum pump
Golden Retriever named Sawyer
http://www.inthewoodssugarbush.com/
http://s628.photobucket.com/albums/u...nersinthewoods
Despite the warm weather my trees ran good yesterday. I have a small backyard operation so it doesn't take much sap to get overrun. Hopefully I'll have enough by tonight to make up another half gallon of syrup. The last batch of syrup was already visibly darker than the first boil. I also noticed that the buds on my soft maples are pretty fat already. I'm beginning to wonder if it's going to be a very short season.
Gonna make our last boil of the season today! Screwed up and didn't tarp the wood,............and if flippin' snowed about 1".
Will be getting a late start to boil today, as we have a social meeting this AM, thus out come the work lights!
This is a sickness.
Pete
Starting yesterday sometime after 1 PM the trees really cranked out the sap. I had to boil all day to keep up. Still not tasting buddy despite obvious open buds on the tops of my silver maples. Anybody else get a good run yesterday/today?
Hi everyone - new to this tapping thing this yea, but it's in my blood already. Tapped my first 2 tress in my backyard (urban) and tapped 6 trees on some hunting land today. Hoping to do a couple quarts this year and see what happens. I meant to mark all the maples on the place last year and neve got around to it - there might be 30 all told. This is awesome.Originally Posted by C.Wilcox
I got 65 gallons on 136 taps today. One bush is primarily Black and Sugar maples and it did about 1/2 gal per tap. The Bush with the reds (40 taps) ran well in the lower spots and the higher ground just had a dribble. The yard trees are starting to pick up also.
Collected close to 90 gallons last evening. Decided to start the boil so we can hopefully be bottling our second run this weekend. Weve had some great runs the past few days.
We had a very busy Easter Sunday, we bottled close to 17 gallons. Should be another busy week looking at the forecast.
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