Left work early yesterday and finished the day at home so I could get my buckets collected before that rain moved in. The silvers on vac produced well this last run, nearly 2g/tap.
Hopefully the rain is all done by the evening so I can go pump out the remote tanks and will boil tomorrow. No freezes in forecast beyond Saturday. Hope it's way wrong.
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Did our first boil today. We got our pans sweetened with 180 gals. The concentric exhaust system worked great!
150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N
I boiled 470 gallons on Tuesday and got the pans sweet and about a gallon of syrup. Not sure if the rain did much to the frost, would be nice for the trees to fully open up.
Smoky Lake 2x6 dropflu pans and hoods on homemade arch
Smoky Lake 6 gallon water jacked bottler
Concentric Exhaust
250 Deer Run RO
325 taps
Boiling tonight again. 300g bulk tank is full and still some in my transport tank. RO running.
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Yesterday was a hell of a run. Going to collect remote bushes this morning. I think I may be out of storage again. Plan to fire the RO up tonight, collect again tomorrow morning, then boil tomorrow. Taking off from my normal job. I've got 52 days of PTO I can burn, so why not?
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Working at cooking down 275 gal today.
150 on 3/16 gravity 2018 and 120 sap sacks
14 x 20 sugar shack
2014 New custom 2x6 arch "The Firestorm" w/ preheater, AUF & AOF
Smokey Lake pans and water jacket bottler
2024 new 2x8 set of drop flue pans and hood from Smoky Lake. Lengthen our arch.
Just a hobby but seems like more work every
year
3 generations working together
Wife that guards our syrup
43.74° N
I boiled for the third time yesterday and am at 25 gallons of syrup. I think that some of the frost still needs to come out. Looks like it should freeze tonight and hopefully a good run tomorrow.
Smoky Lake 2x6 dropflu pans and hoods on homemade arch
Smoky Lake 6 gallon water jacked bottler
Concentric Exhaust
250 Deer Run RO
325 taps
Last two days were nuts. Got caught up. Now I need to get to some finishing and bottling; got at least 16 gallons sitting there plus sweet in the pan. Last sap (from all taps) has been sitting at 2.2% sugar. Sure it's less now. Trees ran more than expected yesterday too despite no freeze. Haven't shut off in days. Not looking like it'll freeze much, if at all, here tonight. Fingers crossed it does.
Definitely getting cooling setup on the bulk tank for next year; I'll need the flexibility it could afford if I can chill the sap. The new batch of 38 trees I added this year are amazing. West slope; all mature Sugars on 3/16 into a 4008. Awesome.
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Supposed to get to 30 last night/this morning for a pretty long stretch. Made it down to 35
Will collect and boil the cloudy stuff I have now. Thanks warm weather! Hopefully I can get everything filtered tomorrow and then bottle on Friday.
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