Adirondack case guy
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Well, it's been a few days since I have posted pics etc. We gathered Wed morning in the rain, but quit at noon because everything was getting covered with ice and the guys were soaked.
We didn't go back and gather until Friday afternoon after it warmed a bit and the ice fell off the trees. Yesterday and today we gathered around 2800 gal. of sap. The Cousin fired the evaporators at 6:00am this morning, and they should shut down about 10:00 tonight. I'm guessing we will have made 65gal. of syrup today. The wood pile is about gone. Tomarrow we will have to cut firewood most of the day, so we have enough to finish the season. Chances are the season will end mid to the end of the week, and then we have to untap the trees and wash all the buckets and equipment. More funnnn, HeHe.
The snow has pretty much melted, and now you can see all the bedrock and crevises that these maple trees grow on and in between. This 60A woods isn't really suited for anything else than growing trees.
The next to last pic., you can see the front of the arch and doors glowing red. They are that way hours at a time when we are boiling. The last pic is of the ice that coated all the trees Thursday.
Loren, the Acg.
We didn't go back and gather until Friday afternoon after it warmed a bit and the ice fell off the trees. Yesterday and today we gathered around 2800 gal. of sap. The Cousin fired the evaporators at 6:00am this morning, and they should shut down about 10:00 tonight. I'm guessing we will have made 65gal. of syrup today. The wood pile is about gone. Tomarrow we will have to cut firewood most of the day, so we have enough to finish the season. Chances are the season will end mid to the end of the week, and then we have to untap the trees and wash all the buckets and equipment. More funnnn, HeHe.
The snow has pretty much melted, and now you can see all the bedrock and crevises that these maple trees grow on and in between. This 60A woods isn't really suited for anything else than growing trees.
The next to last pic., you can see the front of the arch and doors glowing red. They are that way hours at a time when we are boiling. The last pic is of the ice that coated all the trees Thursday.
Loren, the Acg.