Adirondack case guy
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It's been a week since the temp warmed up enough to collect maple sap and fire the evaporators to make syrup. There was still a lot of ice in the buckets that we dumped on the ground, but that is a good thing, as the sugar doesn't freeze at 32F where water does.The ice we dumped was mostly water so the remaining liquid is much sweeter, so it boils down and turns to syrup faster. We had another brass shutoff valve split on a storage tank line, and had to fix the leak with good old electric tape. We didn't fill the storage tanks this afternoon, but when the cousin and uncle shut down the evaporators tonight, about now (10:00pm), as I am posting There should be about 50gal of nice medium amber syrup bottled for sale. Not a bad day. It is below freezing now, and we will start gathering sap about 1:00pm tomarrow and finish gathering the remaining buckets that we didn't get today. The weather is coming around slowly, and looks like maybe by the middle of next week we will be in full swing.
The third from last pic is chunks of ice we have dumped from buckets. Second from last is a pic of the screen of my backup camera, that I installed in my cab so I can see what is happening directly behind me without kinking my neck, and the last is a pic of the sap flowing from the gathering trailer into the storage tank.
Loren, the Acg.
The third from last pic is chunks of ice we have dumped from buckets. Second from last is a pic of the screen of my backup camera, that I installed in my cab so I can see what is happening directly behind me without kinking my neck, and the last is a pic of the sap flowing from the gathering trailer into the storage tank.
Loren, the Acg.