Been a quiet day here post wise in this here forum lol. Either everyone is tuckered out from running today or are still busy at it tonight.
Great run here today, another >140 gallon day. Looks like we'll have another two sap running days as well. Getting down to -5 tonight with clear skies.
Runnin the rig as I type this with a big grin ear-to-ear!
Last edited by HV Maple; 04-07-2011 at 09:47 PM. Reason: typos like a third grader
2010 - 1st year 10 taps on buckets, homemade 1' x 2' cinder block batch cooker
2011 - 100 taps on a 2 x 8 (Lapierre Pans, Preheater and Custom Arch)
2012 - 100 taps and in need more trees!
Horseshoe Valley Maple - Home of the Sweetwater!
Did my last boil today. No freeze hear either in the Ontario (banana belt) Waterford area. Pulled all my taps Wednesday. I haven't bottled everything yet but got pretty close to 200 litres from 160 taps. Pretty good year for me considering I didn't tap till the second week of March. Good luck to all that are still going at it.
160 + taps into 5 gal. buckets Adding some gravity lines for 2011
Homemade 2.5 x 6, Propane finisher/ bottler
10 x 14 shack (it's a tight fit)
Family Farmed Since 1803
We had the best day yet here. Something like 20-22 gallons in the filter tank. That would mean 750 - 800 gallons of sap. Didn't get the RO going early enough so the concentration was only about 6.5 - 7%.
I'm getting leg weary. Walked the bush to tighten 1/2 of the taps then started boiling. Finished at 11:30. I think I got to sit down on the stool about 3 times the whole afternoon/night. Got a few things to do next year to easy the work load.
I think Friday will be about the same. Ice forming in the puddles already
Oh yeh ... the peepers were out last night and tonight.
The sugarmaker's fat lady is singing.
We're shutting down no later than Sunday, no matter what. Partly because we're sick of it, partly because we have more syrup than we can sell and partly because we'll be out of drums!
Our high pressure pump went on our RO last night - ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH. We had to shut down with a bunch of sap still in the camp tanks and in the woods. A new pump is on its way from Quebec and we should get it tonight. If we get it back up and running tomorrow morning it'll get a hell of a workout on its first day of service! If not, we'll be dumping 6,000+ gallons of sap.
5,000 Taps on vacuum
9,400 gallons storage
3 tower CDL RO
3.5'x14' Lapierre Force 5
10" CDL Wesfab Filter Press
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Current plan is to start flushing lines and pulling taps Sunday... don't have a pump for cleaning lines, so will try dumping water into the line from each tap and then blowing the line out I guess.
we're getting a run today. It doesn't look to be as good as the last few days, but we've got about 200 gallons in so far.
Bummer on the pressure pump. That really cramps your style. Nothing like the memories of boiling raw sap ... and waiting 4 to 5 times longer between draws ....
OMG!Originally Posted by ennismaple
How awful. I hope the new pump arrives in time!
10th year in….
100 sap sacks...Actually, I hope to never have to use them again!
1000' feet of 3/16th on gravity (not sure how many taps yet)
14x14 sugar shack
New 2x5 Hybrid Drop flue from Smoky Lake
5" filter press from Daryl
Sap Dog Chloe
Gathered 115 gallons yesterday and 110 today. Basically the same amount of sap over the past three days. Light freeze forecast for tonight probably at least another 40 tomorrow. Hoping the sap isn't buddy when it freezes again a week from now. Ennis Maple; you must have made a crazy amount of syrup if you're sick of it.
Help relatives every year:
A few hundred taps on 3/16 into 3/4" mainline
Can't stop thinking maple, more fun, than work.
We had a lite run Friday. Only about 1/3 of Thursday's. Made about 7 gallons.
The late forecast has been updated to -2 and at just after midnight it's already just below freezing.
One more day .... please .... one more day.
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