Shy of 100 gallons medium to dark amber off 300 taps on tap pullers. About .33 gallons per tap. Boiled over 5000 gallons of raw sap at about 125 gallons/hour. Going to 1000+ taps next season. I see an RO in the future.
Shy of 100 gallons medium to dark amber off 300 taps on tap pullers. About .33 gallons per tap. Boiled over 5000 gallons of raw sap at about 125 gallons/hour. Going to 1000+ taps next season. I see an RO in the future.
Terrible year, we got only 0.17 gallons of syrup per tap.
Jared
2016- 1000 taps all with 3/16" line gravity
2017- 1200 taps all with 3/16" line gravity
3'x10' air-tight evaporator with 3x6 steam away, and blower
2011 Polaris Ranger 800 XP EPS
2016 Kubota MX5800
Dual Axle 10K sap wagon with 550 Gallon Poly Tote to collect with
I am in Nova Scotia and again as reported by others .05 a real bad year and hard work to keep everthing dug out of snow , snow won i lost 300 taps under 3 feet of snow.
2013-300 taps on pipeline
2014-500 taps on pipeline and 25 buckets
2015- 200 ( lost my most of my pipe line under 6 feet of snow) 30 liters
add a hood and building Guzzler pump system
12X30 sugar shack
18X20 wood shed
ford 3000 tractor
I'm in metro west Boston and have been done a few weeks. Two boils. Depending on how you look at it, this second season was better than my first as I ended up with more finished (and had a slightly better handle on what I was doing.) however, I had 3x the number of taps, and 2.5 x the number of trees, and ended my season with the same amount of sap this year as last. Due to a shorter season, frozen trees, I'm guessing. Ended with roughly 0.07 gal per tap, depending if I factor in the tap that was dry the entire season.
Still fun. Still sweet. Still planning on next year.
~Janet
2019 - 6th year sugarin'. 2nd year using propane. 13 taps. Just over 3/4 gal syrup. Light in color and flavor.
Intent to build a new barrel evaporator with my son this summer. Still don't weld. We'll see how it goes.
260 gal, started season with 600 and added all season. We had 1200 at the end. 460 High vac, 121 on sap suckers and 619 gravity. .21 for season if you figure 1200 all season. So we might have done .28/.30 maybe.
Highland gave us 2.43LB so help a little on bills, now just have to retail everything else
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
2015 started out real slow with a cold March but just like 2014 the first 12 days of April were balls to wall We made 3600 gallons that would be .46 gals per tap It was all Golden and Amber Very happy with the season except I need dark to satisfy some of my customers My neighbor will help me out there I'm in the southern part of the Champlain valley in VT
10,600 taps on vacuum
5x16 CDL Master / with steam pan
3600 GPH CDL RO
34 gallons of dark syrup from 100 taps with buckets. Ratio of sap:syrup was 41:1. Very late start and finish. Last four days of the season--extending into April--saved our ***. Made almost half our production in those four days. No big runs until then.
Experimented with walnut syrup. Made half a gallon on 10 taps. Very interesting flavor: like apple jelly. Pleasant but different. A bitch to filter--had to squeeze it through a paper pre-filter. Probably came through the seams, as it is very cloudy. Not sure I will do it again.
Central Ohio
Leader WSE 2x6
Old metal corn crib converted to "The Shack"
Smoky Lake 6 gallon water jacket canner
Daryl 5" filter press with air pump
Deer Run 125 RO
2023: 140 taps, buckets, 32 gallons
2019: 100 taps, buckets, 45 gallons
2018: 100 taps, buckets, 31 gallons
2017: 100 taps, buckets, 15 gallons
2015: 100 taps, buckets, 34 gallons
2014: 100 taps, buckets, 30 gallons
2013: 100 taps, buckets, 52 gallons
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