Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

[PARKER MAPLE]

Round two anyone, I must say it is awesome to see this thread still going. Thank you to all the Vermont sugar makers. Hope your season turned out well. Mine was less the sub par. But next is only 10 months away. I havnt thrown in the towel yet going to try to make some more B grade this week. I have made a lot of improvement this year and its all functioning well. I added a filter press first and for most, I don't no how I ever got by with out this in the past. Then I bought a smokey lake outdraw off, which is pretty handy and takes a little pressure off. I also picked up a new vacuum setup for this year, which took up most of my time finding and fixing leaks. LOL I think I just found my last leak last weekend. I also just picked up a new to me RO machine. I didn't get to use it this year, but I cant wait to use it next... I finally feel like I have made some head way here in this sugaring passion and cant wait to see what it turns into.

See you at the sugaring open house

PARKER MAPLE

[DoubleBrookMaple]

My place reached 32 by 8pm tonight, and I am going for broke. Hoping for a good run over the next 3-4 days to see what I can cook up out of it all. I have some sap in my buckets and collection barrels from the last 3 days that I checked out today. It never reached 70 here, and it is slightly cloudy, and just a little off taste. It will freeze up in the buckets until Thursday, and we will see what it all turns out combined with the fresh sap. I never got anything below dark amber (barely that), and hoping for some B, or "very dark". Maybe this will do it.

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

tanks washed, pump on hoping for good sap tomorrow.

[wiam]

Have not got to C yet. Last night it came back up to dark amber

I take that back. I did not draw when I boiled tonight but it does not look like B

[spud]

We got 4 inches of snow last night and it is 15 degrees. Yesterday I dumped 3002 gallons of sap and cleaned the tanks. We are hoping that today or Thursday will give us big sap and the quality will be better. Keeping my fingers crossed. Would love to have another week of big runs and a few extra dollars in my pocket. My apple trees will be here on the 26th of this month. Got 150 more going in the ground. The buds are not out in my woods yet so I hope things will work out. Good luck everyone that is still going. Its just getting fun now.

Spud

[Randy Brutkoski]

I have to do some repairs to my new vac. shed as the wind blew it over yesterday. The pump was still running some how. I hope it is ok. I will know this morning. This has been a year of alot of headaches. Depression is starting to set in.

[Moser's Maple]

You would be getting close to 12000 a day of your sugaring supplier would get you the electric motor he said he ordered 2 weeks ago and a ordering confermation number .

i wonder if the supplier is the same that I have had so many problems with....... I just thought slow shipping, no tracking #'s, "lost packages" was just a New York thing

[PerryW]

I'm just over the river from St Johnsbury and I did the same thing last night. Dumped the buckets and washed tanks and we got down to 17 degrees. My trees have only been tapped about 3-4 weeks, so I'm hoping for at least some commercial.

[GeneralStark]

I'm just over the river from St Johnsbury and I did the same thing last night. Dumped the buckets and washed tanks and we got down to 17 degrees. My trees have only been tapped about 3-4 weeks, so I'm hoping for at least some commercial.

What was the sugar content of the last good sap you collected? The last run here went from 1.3 to 1 and the previous freeze didn't bring it up.

[PerryW]

In 25 years of sugaring, I have never bothered checking sugar content, but my last boil (last saturday) seemed like it was around 40-50 to 1.