Getting closer to the sap really flowing. It is getting real.
Finished making all 24 pail frames, and did a few other things to get ready. More stuff planned for Monday and especially Tuesday, when I get the evaporator ready and do the first flush on the RO.
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Simple things left, like getting the intake hose of the RO to sit at the bottom of the sap barrel. I will buy a small piece of pvc pipe and zip tie the hose to it.
2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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