Quote Originally Posted by The Heldeberg Sapper View Post
I ended up tapping my two tubing runs Thursday night 2/9, a total of 45 taps on 5/16 gravity. I boiled 60 gallons Saturday, 70 gallons Monday, and 50 gallons Tuesday. So far i have bottled 3.25 gallons of Amber syrup (69-72% transmissivity). Only had a few hours of below freezing temps last night between 7pm-midnight, so not sure if i am going to get much sap to boil today. Its looking like things will be too warm until we get a solid freeze again Friday night and then hopefully Saturday, Sunday, Monday will be good flow days. Based on past experience I probably have about 1 gallon of syrup "trapped" in my continuous flow pans so that jives with the 180 gallons ive collected being at around that 40:1 2% sugar content. Ive never invested in a sap hydrometer, should probably do so one of these days.
Pic of my oil tank evaporator and sap hauler: Attachment 22881
Very nice, love the side by side and the update on sapping...we have almost the same about of sap in our main IBC tote and will be tapping our remaining 3/16 runs along with 50 buckets this weekend.