Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

[GeneralStark]

Up to 105 gal. and sap is still coming in. Was able to get caught up and boil all that was stored and most of what came in today. Sugar has been 2.2 - 1.8 with high after a freeze and low after no freeze. Yesterday syrup went to amber rich. Cleaned syrup pans this am and went back to golden delicate. Should get interesting this week with a freeze tonight and maybe wednesday. May start getting some darker syrup. Have enough wood to make 150 so need to finish cutting slab pile, and get into some logs as well.

With brand new tubing and some taps only in since late march, should be able to weather some warm days. Long range has several freezes next week.

[Randy Brutkoski]

Made 3 barrells today. Puts me at 1120. Sap didnt run real hard for me today.

[VT_K9]

Processed 700 gallons through the R/O and evaporator. Made 12 gallons today. Started at 7:45 and finished about 2:15.....much better than the pre-R/O times.

Mike

[syrup2nv]

175 gallons made today/evening. 1600 for the season. Looks like tomorrow should be a 200+ day. Currently 28 and falling.

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

Uhh burned pan over weekend lost 4 gal syrup cleaned up with wood chisel red scotch brute fired here back up finished night out.
Made 10+ gal last night almost another melt down firing up again tonight

[GeneralStark]

Pulled in about 800 gal. from yesterday am to now. Not sure if we had a real freeze last night though there was some ice on the ground. Boiled this afternoon and made about 10 gal. First five still golden delicate but not sure about the rest. Sugar dropped to about 1.8 in today's sap. Still running but has slowed down quite a bit. Will boil off the rest tomorrow and clean everything up in hopes for another freeze wednesday night.

Vacuum has been key this year. My buckets are pretty much done and have probably produced about 4 gal./tap, maybe a bit more.

[Randy Brutkoski]

I took a day off from boiling and fixed some leaks and collected all day. Got about 5000 gallons of sap. Pulled another 30 taps today due to dead, dry holes. The pumps stay on tonight, should be a big boil tomorow.

[VT_K9]

Collected about 440 gallons of sap and turned it into 110 gallons of 6.25% sap ready to boil first thing in the morning. My Father and I spent the evening draining the evaporator and washing it with permeate. Removed a lot of crude. We warmed the sweet sap and filtered it before putting it back in. It made a difference.

Mike

[GeneralStark]

Despite heavy south winds, thunder, lightning, and heavy rain the sap flow picked up overnight and I pulled in another 250 gallons. Sugar down to 1.5% but it is time to start making some darker syrup. Forecast is looking interesting with a possible marginal freeze tonight, a more likely freeze tomorrow night, but then warm for several days and next possible freeze next tuesday. Not sure the syrup flavor will stay good through the warm up but we'll find out.

Time to cut some slabs and then get to boiling. Been pretty lucky with leaks during the season and have only had to fix two squirrel chews. Pump has been on for the last week and vac. is 27 " in the woods.

[maplwrks]

Got 1 gpt yesterday which was pretty good with the temps we had. Boiled 25 gallons of nice dark syrup, bringing us close to 300 for the season. Weather doesn't look that promising for the next week, maybe a freeze tonight. Going to start hanging more mainlines on thursday, while it is nice and warm.