Just finished up catching up for the week up to 12.25 gallons made
Just finished up catching up for the week up to 12.25 gallons made
2018 - 30 buckets boiled on 2 barrel evaporators 2.5 gal
2019 - 48 on 5/16 tubing and 30 buckets 2x4 WF mason XL 14 gallons made.
2020 - 85 on 5/16 tubing and 30 buckets and a new cupola on the shack
2021 - Mountain maple s3 controller with shurflo 4048 pump added 85 on 5/16 30 buckets
2022 - 85 on 5/16 no buckets this year (next gen sugar maker on tap)
My best Feb. ever, just over 1500 gal/sap so far - I can remember several years back one Feb was so cold, nothing ran at all. I have a school field trip coming tomorrow - Should be fun -
My fifth year now and definitely the best sap flow for my trees.Originally Posted by Mike Van
Not getting much of a break between runs with no dry spell at all on the bigger trees. Big trees giving 3% and small trees giving 2% and I have 1 Red Maple giving 1%
Having a difficult time keeping up with 41 taps on 4 steam pans with 3 rolling hard, but able to just barely.
If you think it's easy to make good money in maple syrup .... then your obviously good at stealing somebody's Maple Syrup.
Favorite Tree: Sugar Maple
Most Hated Animal: Sap Sucker
Most Loved Animal: Devon Rex Cat
Favorite Kingpin: Bruce Bascom
40 Sugar Maple Taps ... 23 in CT and 17 in NY .... 29 on gravity tubing and 11 on 5G buckets ... 2019 Totals 508 gallons of sap, 7 boils, 11.4 gallons of syrup.
1 Girlfriend that gives away all my syrup to her friends.
shvisit.jpg My first tour group was a great success -
Slowly thawing out here today in Simsbury, but looks like the first part of this week will be too warm for another run?
There will be a good run starting tomorrow, going into Tuesday until the sap is all up. Then we'll need another freeze to reset the process. Too many warm days thawed with no freeze at night is not good, trees tapped 4 weeks ago will start to slowly run less & less. Thats my experience anyway.
So this is my first year after a 2 or 3 year hiatus. Filtered and bottled 1.5 gallons of syrup. I don't track sap exactly, but I estimated I had boiled 60 gallons, but I guess it must have been a bit more. I desperately need a better filtering process. I use maple flat filters on a ~1.5 sq ft mesh flat pan and barely anything goes through it. I wasn't able to filter while it was thinner than syrup and there was a lot of niter. I thought I stopped boiling at 65-66 brix but the additional steps of filtering and bottling evaporated more than I realized. I ended up with syrup that's 70 brix so I'm sure that's partially why.
Will prob boil again next weekend, which will be another 2 weeks sitting in buckets. But with the amount of ice in the buckets, I think it should be good.
2021 - 15 taps
2020 - 20 taps, 2 gallons syrup
2016 - 25 taps, 2.1 gallons syrup
2014 - 14 taps, 1.1 gallons syrup
There will be a good run starting tomorrow, going into Tuesday until the sap is all up.
Yes, collected 210 gallons today.
Sap ran pretty good yesterday, ran real good last night. 22 gallons syrup so far. We need to figure how we are going to sell it all. We put a sign on the road when we are just boiling (not bottling) and have had a few visitors to the shack. It is fun to share the process with other people.
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