Good afternoon,
How are you folks making out south of us?
Dave
Good afternoon,
How are you folks making out south of us?
Dave
2x5 SS home design on a home design arch w/ forced draft
SS Evaporation Enhancement Unit
Home design filter / canner
Daryl Sheets filter press
300 taps (280 on line, 20 buckets)
120 gph Home Design RO
2017 Chevy Silverado w/ 275 gallon tank
8x16 sugarhouse w/ attached woodshed
A wife, family and friends that love to help!!
Weather in the South
Here in Harrisonburg, Va. my home base, It started snowing Friday at 3.45 and its still coming down at 2 pm Sat. I would not make a guess as to how much snow we have recieved simply due to the wind piling it up in places. I went to work at 5 am only to have the plant shutdown at 10 am. Plant will be down tomorrow also due to the snow. Bummer- LOL. Any of you guys have a snowmobile I can borrow to get to the sugarbush, I only have 4 weeks tops to get ready.
Mark 220 Maple
1100 taps on low vaccum, 900 on gravity.
900 plus taps leased and on high vacuum
35 cfm Indiana Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump
80% Sugar, 20% Red MAPLES
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got family just outside of charlotte NC said everything is shutdown!!! they just don't have the snow removal resources that we have up here.
may your sap be at 3%
Brad
www.willowcreeksugarhouse.com
585 or so on Vacuum, about 35 on buckets/sap sacs
Atlas Copco GVS 25A Rotary Vane vacuum pump
MES horizontal electric releaser
2x6 ss phaneuf Drop flue, Leader woodsaver blower, homemade hood
300gph H2O RO
husquvarna 562 XP
Its Here!!! 2024 season is here get busy!!!
Just chatted with friends from Lancaster County, Pa.
It's 15" and still snowing!!!
Says his drive is almost closed in!!
2x5 SS home design on a home design arch w/ forced draft
SS Evaporation Enhancement Unit
Home design filter / canner
Daryl Sheets filter press
300 taps (280 on line, 20 buckets)
120 gph Home Design RO
2017 Chevy Silverado w/ 275 gallon tank
8x16 sugarhouse w/ attached woodshed
A wife, family and friends that love to help!!
Just a tad over 20" here in the eastern panhandle of WV, and still snowing.
2024 - 57 Gallons - Short season, many and varied problems remedied in short order! - No buckets!
2023 - 38 Gallons - RO broke, Buckets didn't run, rebuilt vacuum pump mid-season, still made good syrup!
2022 - 52 Gallons - DIY RO, 50% less fuel, no late nights in the shack!
2021 - 48 Gallons - new pans, new arch, lots of new taps and tubing
2020 - 32 Gallons
2019 - 27 Gallons
That's a lot of snow all at once. We don't even have 20 inches on the ground total here. It's got to be wreaking some havoc around DC!
Somebody called it snowpocalypse.
Sounds like a Walton's mountain kind of storm. We hoefully don't get that much snow at once hard for she who has to be obeyed to shovel that much at once.
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..
Just beware when it all starts melting in other words be prepared.
Maple syrup makers never die, they just evaporate.
Kubota M-5040,Kubota B-2650,Kubota XRT 900, Sugarhouse is now a guest cottage.
We got about 20 inches here and about all of it in 12 hours, so it created a big mess. I was snow about 2" per hour for a while, so thousand of vehicles stranded and state of emergency. We get quite a bit of snow here, but this hit so fast, they couldn't even get kids home from school with buses with chains on them. Snow is normal and a way of life here, but this is one of those storms that wreaks havoc. National guard can't even get Interstates cleared with their big loaders and heavy equipment due to all the jack knifed tractor trailers and vehicles everywhere. So far we haven't lost electricity, but some have and will not have it back on for a weak. Fairly heavy snow and wet, so the roads have a lot of ice on them and 3 to 4 inches thick. It hit about 3 pm yesterday and many people couldn't even get home from work even if they were only 2 to 3 miles away.
I nearly spent the night on I64 last night but was finally able to get to a crossover and got back to exit and slipped and slid until I got home. My company car is a 2008 Taurus and I have 4 studded tires and traction control and it was all I could do to get home which took 4 hours. Another hour or two and I would have spent a night or two in the car.
Brandon
CDL dealer for All of West Virginia & Virginia
3x10 CDL Deluxe oil fired
Kubota M7040 4x4 Tractor w/ 1153 Loader hauling sap
2,400+ taps on 3/16 CDL natural vacuum on 9 properties
24x56 sugarhouse
CDL 1,000 2 post RO
WEBSITE: http://danielsmaple.com
Not sure how the geography of West Virginia shapes the weather, but the snow here was all powder, you can move it with a leaf blower... I know a friend of mine did. It was the kind of snow that rolls off the shovel like sand, but doesn't weigh much. I wish they were better equip to deal with the weather here, I'd be snowboarding right now In Montana where i lived for a while all the powder hounds would be heading to the mountain before daybreak to get first tracks.
2024 - 57 Gallons - Short season, many and varied problems remedied in short order! - No buckets!
2023 - 38 Gallons - RO broke, Buckets didn't run, rebuilt vacuum pump mid-season, still made good syrup!
2022 - 52 Gallons - DIY RO, 50% less fuel, no late nights in the shack!
2021 - 48 Gallons - new pans, new arch, lots of new taps and tubing
2020 - 32 Gallons
2019 - 27 Gallons