got 5 gallons from the 9 i put in yesterday around 1pm
got 5 gallons from the 9 i put in yesterday around 1pm
Changed my mind.
Tapped everything on vacuum Friday, chased leaks yesterday.
Squirrels had gotten more than I feared; healthy winds didn’t make the job any easier.
Lines are all flushed, setting the releaser tank today and will start collecting.
Hoping to get in the first boil tomorrow. Plenty to get done today to make that happen.
Ice on the puddles this morning, I assume we went below freezing last night, but already 36* here at 8 A.M.
42.67N 84.02W
350 taps- 300 on vacuum, 50 buckets
JD gator 625i Sap hauler w/65 gal tank
Leader 2X6 drop flue
Homemade auto draw-off
Homemade preheater
Homebrew RO, 2- xle-4040's
LaPierre double vertical releaser
Kinney KC-8 vacuum pump
12X24 shack
Lots of chickens and a few cats.
All 83 in Saturday, sap was dripping before the taps could get placed. Looks like an early year in Luther.
Martin
2008 1st yr 5 taps 2 steam table pans
2009 20 taps 4 steam table pans
2010 83 taps 28x72 arch W/Thru Tubes
2011 83 taps Thru tube
2012 83 taps Thru tube pan
2015 Added single post homebuilt RO
http://photobucket.com/maplefarmer
N 44° 5' 2.0239"
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First boil yesterday. Perfect day for it!
43° 31' 8" N
2012: 2 taps 1 quart of something resembling syrup and 1 cup of sugar
2013: 12 taps 3 gallons of syrup
2014: 20 taps 4 gallons of syrup
2015: 25 taps 10 gallons of syrup
2016: 60 taps 12 gallons of syrup
2017: 75 taps
Tapped 13 more reds today. Decided to reuse some plastic taps from last year that we bleached and rinsed at the end of the season.
Last edited by Cedar Eater; 02-21-2016 at 03:47 PM.
CE
44° 41′ 3″ N
2019 -- 44 Red Maples - My home and sugarbush are for sale.
2018 -- 48 Red Maples, 7 gallons
2017 -- 84 Red Maples, 1 Sugar Maple, and 1 Silver Maple , 13 gallons
2016 -- 55 Red Maples, 8 gallons
2015 -- 15 Red Maples, 6 Birches - 3+ gallons maple syrup
An awning over my deck is my sugar shack.
An electrified kitchen sink and an electrified steam table pan are my evaporators.
Collected 40 gallons today out of 20 taps (17 sugars, 1 red, 1 silver, and 2 Norways). This is sap that ran over the weekend. Boiled it down to 3-1/2 gallons this afternoon and put in refrigerator to finish some night this week after work. Got my new refractometer Saturday and checked Sugars were running 2-1/2 % and a bucket of the Silver/Red and Norways all mixed together was 2-1/2 % also which really suprised me. As a newbie, this was my 1st boil and everything went great. Clay in Almont, MI
I went all in Friday 2/19/16 40 deg. weather tapping 125 trees they are all on 3/16 gravity and most have 20-25 foot drop in elevation to the collection drums.
Collected this weekend close to 200 gallons sap and have to do the finish boil should end with a little over 2 gallons syrup. the sap was measuring with a hyd. 1.2 percent, low but I could not just dump it. February 19th 2015 it was 37 degrees below zero here.
Tim Schmidt
2013 13 Taps 4 Gallons Syrup, Drum evap.
2014 50 Taps 14 Gallons Syrup, Drum evap.
2015 60 Taps on 3/16 gravity, 40 Taps on buckets, 42 Gallons Syrup, Home built 30 x 60 arch and flat pan
2016 125 Taps all on 3/16 gravity average 18 in. vacuum, 43 Gallons Syrup, Same Arch and Pan
2017 125 Taps all on 3/16 gravity average 18 in. vacuum, 44 Gallons Syrup, Same Arch and Pan
2018 155 Taps all on 3/16 gravity average 18 in. vacuum, Same Arch and Pan, home built 100 gph ro unit
Stopped
Made 30 gals of syrup since Friday. Weather says were done for a while
5th generation
2 1/2 Buckets
1010 gravity
2 new flat pans. Back pan now has 16 V's
Rebuilt the block arch 3x12
Homemade pre-heater,steamhood
MES Dolly RO
Yesterday we gathered 65 gallons of sap off 30 taps, but started cooking around 2pm. Will finish off the syrup today and start tapping more trees this week. Outside of Cass City.
We tapped Feb. 17th, and we've collected 54 gallons of sap.
42.54°N 85.86°W
Fourth season sugaring...........
2014- 3 taps, a couple quarts of finished syrup
2015- 12 taps, 2 1/2 gallons syrup
2016 - Put out 24 maple taps, and 3 walnut taps. Collected 240 gallons of sap, and bottled up about 6.5 gallons of maple syrup. About 12oz of walnut syrup.
2017 - About 4 gallons of the most amazing syrup I've ever had!
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