Put in 350 taps yesterday. Hope to get the rest of the pipelines tapped today and boil tonight. Buckets will have to wait until tomorrow...
Put in 350 taps yesterday. Hope to get the rest of the pipelines tapped today and boil tonight. Buckets will have to wait until tomorrow...
300 on vaccum
300 gravity tubing
200 buckets
100 hilltop acres
16x20 timberframe sugarhouse built in 2010
3x10 Leader max flue & revolution pans w/ Inferno arch - 2013
1998 Kubota M5400
Northwoods Farm and Forestry on Facebook.
I just got back from camp small run yesterday and today it took for every for the lines to thaw and slowly running but I will not have enough to fire up until probably Tuesday with next 2 days being cold.
110 taps W.F Mason 2x3 and two turkey friers for finishing
2011 expanding to a Mason 2x4 with a blower increasing taps to about 200
2011 Hurricane Irene rips thru my small sugar bush cost me to lose 20% of taps
2014 I have reworked my lines for 2014
32 taps on 5/16 line with check valves
57 taps on 3/16 line with check valves
55 buckets with total tapped trees of 144
Finished hooking up my new sap lifter this morning and turned the vacuum pump on at 10 am. Lines thawed, I fixed a few leaks and by 11 am the vac. was up to 28". Minimal flow from 200+ taps, but there was enough to test the new DIY electric releaser and sap lifter. Both working well, only a couple minor adjustments needed on the releaser before the next major run. Probably collected about 25 gallons all told before it froze up again. Trees are still very frozen and it will require some serious warm weather for any real runs. Going to try to get the rest of the taps in over the next couple days.
About 750 taps on High Vac.
2.5 x 8 Intens-O-Fire
Airtech 3 hp LR Pump
Springtech Elite 500 RO
14 x 24 Timber Frame SugarHouse
16 x 22 Sap Shed w/ 1500 gal. + 700 gal. tanks
www.littlehogbackfarm.com
spent a lot of money, hooked up sap sucker turned her on started checking for leaks only got vac up to 12" not enough sap really to hit 20. Lot of squirrel damage since last weekend let me see 7.62x39 + squirrel= vaporization, if I hit A maple i will just put a tap in it. Moving old milk house to field for vac house should have set tomorrow start hooking up old milk vac pump
Business Name
Flat Lander Sugaring (who would think a guy from Az be making syrup)
125 on Sap Suckers
Close to 475 High Vac
400 gravity adding more
leader 2x6
home made preheater
hoods
1 7D749 for AOF
New FLS Tsunami Arch
4 membrane TR Industries RO 2HP 3 phase 601GPH 250 PSI
PID Display for Arch Temp.
Chumlee of the trader
Sun started coming out at about 1:00 and I was planning on turning the pump on as soon as I put the little one in for her nap. About three hours later we both woke up.I have no idea if the sap would have run a little.
Spud
Got about 185 gallons today. Will boil tomorrow for the first time this year. Will be nice be back at it.
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3X8 D&G with airtight arch, hood and preheater. - 400 Vacuum and 435 gravity. 16X24 sugarhouse. Deer Run 250 RO. DG 7" filter press. Grew up with maple. At 18 months old my Dad frost bit me when in a baby carrier while we were tapping in South Reading, VT...1954 Ferguson with trailer for Sap Collection, JD 850 and a 64 international scout woods buggy.
Pulan Pruning saw, Husky Rancher 455, and Stihl 064av to tame the woods.
While finishing my sap handling installation, and test firing my home built arch with water, my initial 60 gravity taps gave me a whole 5 gallons of sap! Nice to finally test. I guess I will tap another 60 soon. Buckets will wait a while.
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Eric of the Greens... I Fly Solo...
2013-15 Block arch to having it all...
2016...320 on vacuum. 155 gravity, 90 buckets.
All homemade equipment except Smokey Lake pans.
2x6 arch, Electric releaser w/ Gast 1023 24" vacuum
2x4x40 RO w/ dual 265gph Procons
My PWS with webcam... https://www.wunderground.com/persona...READS2#history
Got started today. Sweetened things up and managed to finish a couple of gallons. Actually ran pretty well here on gravity. Buckets did nothing. Not liking the blue plastic spouts yet at all. Time might change my mind. Was surprised with the run as it was windy and 31 degrees. The sun on the trees made up for it I guess. Good luck everyone.
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3X8 D&G with airtight arch, hood and preheater. - 400 Vacuum and 435 gravity. 16X24 sugarhouse. Deer Run 250 RO. DG 7" filter press. Grew up with maple. At 18 months old my Dad frost bit me when in a baby carrier while we were tapping in South Reading, VT...1954 Ferguson with trailer for Sap Collection, JD 850 and a 64 international scout woods buggy.
Pulan Pruning saw, Husky Rancher 455, and Stihl 064av to tame the woods.
probably have around 60 gal in tanks going to pump and run it through tomorrow night.
Tapped Hampton NY today going back this week to fix main line and add taps will be moving second guzzler over there after we get the delaval 75 up and running
Business Name
Flat Lander Sugaring (who would think a guy from Az be making syrup)
125 on Sap Suckers
Close to 475 High Vac
400 gravity adding more
leader 2x6
home made preheater
hoods
1 7D749 for AOF
New FLS Tsunami Arch
4 membrane TR Industries RO 2HP 3 phase 601GPH 250 PSI
PID Display for Arch Temp.
Chumlee of the trader
1500 gallons yesterday and 750 today (south side only). First Boil of the season will be tomorrow. Should run decent the next 3 days if the forecast holds.
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2012 D&G 3x14 Thunderbolt
2017 DG Prestige 3000gph x 2 (14 posts)
2017 DG 15” Press w/SS Air pump
9500 on high vac for 2020
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