Originally Posted by
aamyotte
That was a surprise. I went to the shack to bring my pans home to clean them. I checked on my buckets and they had a good volume in them. I put some in the freezer to make sap cubes since I have no snow left to pack around the barrel.
Summer project is to build a small enclosure to insulate and pack the barrel with snow. The insulation should keep the snow from melting.
Boiled yesterday and got 37:1 ratio. Alot better than the first batch of 52.3:1.
I am lucky, I boil in my yard, where I have large piles of plowed snow, so I always have lots of snow available to bury my pails. Glad to hear that your sugar content in your sap went up.
2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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