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Galena
Set my spiles somewhat after work yesterday. All but one of the spiles was hot. As anticipated, my three little Surprise trees in the back 40 were the ones really pumping it out! Even #6, now down to only 2 spiles, was keen to get going. And now that #2, my biggest and often best tree, is back on the line, it also wasted no time showing me that there still plenty of life in the old tree yet :-) As they should be frozen this morning, have to hammer a few spiles in a little bit deeper. Didn't have the chance last night!
The overflowing buckets and hot spiles have me jealous. Do you have much snow in your area? I know your days would be warmer, and warmer longer than mine up here, but my taps although flowing, have never raced.
I am averaging maybe .7 of a litre per tap. It is still total winter here with a couple of feet of snow in the forest. All my taps are on slopes that face east.
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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