2015 Season West Virginia Mapler

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Supposed to get to 22 tonight and 16 tomorrow night with no thawing tomorrow. Hoping to get sugar back up and one last run before season is done. Monday will be 8 full weeks so hoping the new spouts and check valves hold up.

On side note, Daniels Maple Products is the new CDL dealer for WV to compliment being a Sugarhill dealer. I won't mention this again or solicit business out of respect to Chris and Kim as they have always been great for me to deal with.

[mountainvan]

When your done down there you coud come up and help me. Good luck on the last run.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Van I wish I could as it would be a lot of fun. Hoping to make another 50 gallons but doubt the holes will give up that much but never know. Least can hope and pray they do.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

530 gallons yesterday and another 680 today. Got to below 27 last night so everything running today even with it 66 degrees and 25 mph winds. Tomorrow will probably be it and that will be at least 3 years in a row I have boiled in April. Sugar low but sap pretty good quality and still making good Robust A syrup.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Pulled the plug today. 8 weeks and 1 day since I started and boiled again in April for at least third year in a row which is really crazy. Picked up another 325 gallons of sap toady and put season total to 10,400. Should be somewhere around 167 to 168 gallons of syrup as I hope to boil out evaporator tomorrow. From weather standpoint, about second worst weather I have ever seen but a very good year with the hand we were dealt. Be around 69% of crop which is tremendous as bad as weather was. 400 on natural vac saved season for sure as I probably got about 20 gpt from them in spite of all the tough weather. 262 on north side on gravity always run 10 to 15 gallons per tap usually in 3 weeks didn't produce but 3 to 4 gpt. Strangest year about I have seen and they sap wouldn't run on gravity when it should.

[Russell Lampron]

I'm glad that you had a good season. It has been unusually cold here this year too. The sap is finally running here after the worst start in 15 years. I only boiled 4 times in March and none in February which makes this worse than last season when I boiled twice in February and 5 times in March.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Big thumbs up to the RO. We processed 10,400 gallon of sap with 1 cord of wood, that would have normally taken 8 cords. Norrmal sugar content we would have made about 200 gallons of syrup on 1 cord of wood. Even that will make you proud Russ. Won't have much to do in the off season now but hopefully I will use the extra time to sell a lot of equipment and supplies and walk a few prospective sugarbushes for new customers.

[Maplewalnut]

Congrats Brandon, sounds like you definitely made the best of it and then some. Have to be flexible in this fine world of maple!

Mike

[sapmaple]

Big thumbs up to the RO. We processed 10,400 gallon of sap with 1 cord of wood, that would have normally taken 8 cords. Norrmal sugar content we would have made about 200 gallons of syrup on 1 cord of wood. Even that will make you proud Russ. Won't have much to do in t
he off season now but hopefully I will use the extra time to sell a lot of equipment and supplies and walk a few prospective sugarbushes for new customers.

Brandon
Glad you salvaged your season I've ignored the 3/16 so far but the results that people are having are intriguing If you want to hone your wood cutting skills (since you don't have much to do) take some vaca days and visit up north I'd be happy to have a little help filling my wood shed back up We travel south at times with the camper perhaps we could drop in and visit your digs sometime
Kevin

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Kevin,

With a Vortex with steamaway and a 2400 CDL RO, would guess you are getting a tremendous syrup to wood ratio also. Mine hits the steamaway at 10 to 12 percent and should be coming out about 16 to 18 percent. I heat the house with wood, so I will get plenty of exercise doing that. If you are down in my neck of the wood, give me a shout.