Had some repair welding done on the evaporator. The right side had a spot that burned through. Welded in a metal plate and replaced firebrick.
Sunny and low 40s. Trees dripping. Went out collecting at 4:00 PM. Altered our tractor path to account for the smaller number of taps. Headed northeast from the syrup buildling then circled around down the west side of the building before looping east and back to the building.
Picked up 85 gallons. Doing the math shows it would have been 425 gallons with 500 taps.
Pumped the sap into the storage tank. Tomorrow we’ll start cooking.