Collected 76 gallons today form 141 taps.
Collected 76 gallons today form 141 taps.
2014 15 taps 1 gallon on a turkey burner
2015 100 taps 10 gallons on a smokey lakes full pint
2016 188 taps, full pint pan, and a home made RO system
Boiled 38 gallons of sap Sunday down to 14 qts of concentrate and put in fridge until tonight. Nitre all settled to bottom of jars in fridge. Finished 14 qts tonight and ended up with 5 pints of beautiful medium amber for my 1st syrup ever as I am a newbie. Finishing went easier than I thought it would and my new Smoky Lake Murphy Cup made things easy. Clay Stroup in Almont, MI. Collecting sap tomorrow night for Saturdays boil!
Congrats on your first ever boil!Originally Posted by claystroup
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.
Boiled 21 gallons on Monday, finished inside to almost 2 quarts, and bottled yesterday. My converted campfire pit arch with hotel pans did about 3 GPH which was slower than I'd like. I have some ideas for improvements next year.
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Last edited by odave; 02-24-2016 at 06:29 AM.
--Dave
42° 46' 32.4" N
2015: 1 pruned branch end, 10 oz, 1 new hobby
2016: 12 taps, 2 gallons
2017: Too warm, trees budded out in February
2018: 1 tap, 48 oz
Tapped on friday the 19th .have 134 taps in have collected 430 gallons. have 11 gallons finnished .off to a good start , but thank god for this **** snow storm.at 15 gph we need a break.
Probably a week late but got 65 taps in livingston county today. Some dripping hoping won't have to boil till mid week because I'm not ready yet in the shack.
Smoky lake full pint on my leader half pint arch
110 taps on 3/16 vacuum tubing
Homemade RO sapinator
Collected one gallon from 28 taps today. The temp hit 49F. Just waiting for the trees to wake up. Supposed to get two more days in the forties then a drop and maybe back up by next Saturday.
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.
Not to be a downer but watch your tree tops. We came across 2 trees in the wood lot yesterday that I will not top due to it's budded out. 500 roadsides in, 300 on vacuum today, 400 on vacuum by Tues. sweet sap to all
Sunday was my best run of the season. I collected 224 gallons from 168 taps.
2014 15 taps 1 gallon on a turkey burner
2015 100 taps 10 gallons on a smokey lakes full pint
2016 188 taps, full pint pan, and a home made RO system
My trees woke up yesterday, yawned, took a little leak, and went back to sleep. I got 5.5 gallons of sap out of 28 taps so far this year, but it was enough to do a test boil on my new electrified buffet pan. I'm hoping today will run again. It's sunny and warming up, but it's also windy.
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.
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