Wish we could post photos, would love to see everyone's setups and production
Wish we could post photos, would love to see everyone's setups and production
Am I the last man standing? Collected 55 gallons tonight on 66 taps left on sugar maples. Sap looks great and tastes great.
Pulled the plug today. Some trees were running, but not enough to restart the evaporator. I drained it during the warm spell and finished/filtered/packed the nearup. It takes a few hundred gals to start back up. My most recently tapped lines were running pretty well, but that's not enough. This cold snap was just too late for me.
Gary / Zena Crossroads / 42˚ 00' 24" N / Hobby in Early '70s, Addiction since 2014
200+ taps on 3/16 (60 of which are on two Lunchbox Vac/Releasers)
12x34 timber framed sap house w/attached 10x34 shed roof for storage
2 x 6 Smoky Lake hybrid pan on oil fired Corsair arch with steam hood/concentric exhaust/auto draw-off
7.0 KW Sun Power PV System, Smokey Lake Filter Press/Steam Bottler, Modified NGMP RO - 2 4x40 posts 200 gph
The 18" of snow on Saturday made it a pain to walk to my buckets. Found one overflowing this afternoon. Will probably run another batch.
Pete
2017- 17 taps, 3 gallons, stove-top insanity
2018- 36 taps, 10 gallons, Oil tank evaporator
2019- 24 taps, 7 gallons
2020- 27 taps, 5.75 gallons
2021- 42 taps, 8 gallons
2022- 48 taps, 8.5 gallons
2023- 50 taps, 15 gallons
2024- 46 taps, 9.5 gallons
Oil Tank Evaporator build
I'm still going. Was out of town Monday and Tuesday, but came back to a ton. 27 gallons, many buckets were full or overflowing. I may hold out for 1 more week.
2016-2022 - About 8 taps, 1-2 gallons a year
2023 - 15 taps + New Property
2024 - 23 taps
2025 - 31 taps
Collected another 65 gallons tonight and also pulled some more taps that just aren't doing well. Looking at the forecast this weekend might be it for me. Will RO the 115 or so gallons tomorrow then boil it.
Still flowing strong here is East Berne. I've collected over 110 gallons the past few days from my 49 taps. Still crystal clear but I'm running out of wood and motivation so will probably wrap things up shortly even with some more projected freezing nights coming up.
Still getting a little flow in Porter Corners, got about 20 gallons between Tues and Wed. Looked clear and didn't taste bad, didn't taste sweet though, did have a slight film on the sap. I am a little concerned it won't be good to boil, I never pulled the taps out of my reds and they are pretty budded out, hopefully they aren't adding any sap to my mainline. I will need at least 20 more gallons to make it worth boiling this weekend, at least with the snow I can keep the sap cold.
Nice to hear others still chugging along! RO'd the last couple days of collections and boiled 45 gallons of concentrate tonight and got some nice draw offs. Should end up with a nice season which is surprising seeing how whacky the weather has been!
Had our last boil yesterday and pulled the remaining taps. Going to do our last bottling of the season today, should end up with 20 or so gallons. That's basically our annual average so overall a pretty darn good year considering it was looking like we wouldn't hit double digits not too long ago.
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