Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

[GeneralStark]

Sap continues to run well here. It took until this am to get going but once the sun came out it really picked up. Nothing historic but certainly quite good. Pulled in 1 gpt by late afternoon and will run the ro overnight and plan to boil tomorrow. No freeze in the forecast for tonight so I'm not taking any chances. Looks like potential for sap through the week with another boil likely friday after cleaning on thursday.

I finally got a chance to plumb in a sight tube for my head tank so I will no longer need to climb a ladder to check the tank level. There are a few other minor refinements I'm hoping to get done this season during breaks in the action... assuming we get some breaks before the end of the season...

[Mead Maple]

Sap continues to run well here. It took until this am to get going but once the sun came out it really picked up. Nothing historic but certainly quite good. Pulled in 1 gpt by late afternoon and will run the ro overnight and plan to boil tomorrow. No freeze in the forecast for tonight so I'm not taking any chances. Looks like potential for sap through the week with another boil likely friday after cleaning on thursday.

I finally got a chance to plumb in a sight tube for my head tank so I will no longer need to climb a ladder to check the tank level. There are a few other minor refinements I'm hoping to get done this season during breaks in the action... assuming we get some breaks before the end of the season...

General, how did you plumb in your sight tube?


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[VT_K9]

We had no new sap last night, just over 30 degrees in the Upper Valley. This morning it warmed up pretty quick. Found a few leaks and managed to get vac up over 26" most of the time and nothing below 24". I added a few taps to some runs. We boiled the 400 gallons of sap previously collected. I checked the tanks about 1 hour ago and there is a little more than 350 gallons from today on 350 taps. Not to bad.

Tomorrow we'll finish the main line run for the new area, finish the releaser pluming, and then add more taps.

Mike

[VTfarmboy]

gathered 1.2 gpt in the last 24hr! still testing 2.2, big sap! still making Amber rich

[spud]

I went down to the sugar house at 6:00am to shut the pump off but the sap was still running 125 GPH. Sap ran all night and I have another 1700 gallons in the tank. In the last 24 hours I have gotten 1 GPT and sap is testing at 2.1%. Tomorrow could bring a little more sap but maybe not.

Spud

[PARKER MAPLE]

The last two day’s we have gathered 1.2 gallons per tap on 2700 taps. Sugar has been as good as 2.2 and as low as 2.0.
Made two beautiful drums of LA and working on our third. This morning tanks are full again. Haven’t done the calculations yet but I’m thinking something like 1.0gpt.
Hookin up a pump in our permeate tank today with a line and wash ball so we can back our trucks under and wash out truck tanks easily.

[Shirefisher]

All right a trickle in my test buckets but I'm going to tap my 30buckets today as I'm thinking early next week will be the first run...and I don't have to show up to my day job today.

[Shirefisher]

Ok. I went all out and have tapped 35 on buckets... just a little trickle thus far but we'll see what happens the next few and then a goof freeze Saturday night. I'm thinking Tuesday night might be my first boil if I'm lucky!

[spud]

Sap trickled in all day yesterday and I got another 1300 gallons before it froze up. Sap is testing 2.2. Looks like we might get a five hour run today once the sun comes out. It’s 28 at the house right now.

Spud

[VTfarmboy]

gathered .25 gpt last evening testing 2, a few sap moths , frost coming out fast