Schenectady-Albany-Saratoga Counties

[crzypete]

I made a batch yesterday before the temps plummeted. Made 2.5 quarts from 34 taps. I will probably tap a few more trees as the snow begins to recede and I have more access to my property. Conditions are still pretty rugged here.

I also had a chance to visit Kevbo17 and his family and boil with them on Sunday. It's amazing how much less snow and more sap they have. They are east of Saratoga and I am in the foothills west.

Looks like another lull now though, and that wind was crazy. In fact, I managed to leave the house door not fully pulled shut while I was boiling and came back and found it had blown open. The furnace ran for the first tine this year. I was trying to make it through the winter solely heating the house with wood, but my streak was broken. Thermostat was set to 55º too, so that was quite a rude awakening.

Pete

[eseerup]

Collected 325 gal of sap on Sunday. There was 220+ before the freeze yesterday. Hoping the freeze recharges the trees.

[ADK_XJ]

Nothing going over this way...after the hard freeze, there's been no sap run at all for going on 3 days. Looks to stay cold through the weekend and then warm up rapidly...hoping we can ride this out through end of March but we'll see!

[MRFNY]

Today - One of the buckets on my best tree that faces south

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[MRFNY]

Ended up with 40 gallons yesterday, the sun got some of the trees running. Boiled 60 gallons last night, next boil I'll be drawing off!

[Kevbo17]

First boil last Sunday with crzypete, got about 3.5 quarts. Lots of ash without a grate! 2nd boil Friday, used last year's melted grate upside down for airflow - much improved efficiency and less coals, 3 quarts. Glad to have a stash again!

Looking like an interesting week weatherwise...hope for big flow Mon/Tuesday and big boil Wednesday??

[sugarman3]

Last biol was last mon,17 gal of light and ready for next run,hoping it will break on mon but thinking it will be more like later in the day tues,been 0 for 3 nights in a row

[sugarman3]

good luck this season,we still have 2 ft of snow in sugarbushes

[ADK_XJ]

Expecting a huge run the start of the week - I only put up my buckets last weekend so may get out there to tap the tubing lines as well and try to make "make hay while the sun shining" as they say.

[crzypete]

ADK, did you end up making an oil tank evaporator? Pics?

We did a small batch today, mainly for entertainment of the kids. Hoping the weather this week gets things moving. I'm going to tap a few more tomorrow to get past 40 taps.

Pete