24 overnight. Sunny and 42 today. Trees dripped a little. We collected. Pickup the sap before the snow. Forecast is somewhere between 3” and 10” although 6” seems most likely. It seems strange to think of a snow storm when we had such a nice day.
Into the woods by 4:30 AM. Done by 10:15 AM. Did a pH wash cycle on the membrane where we add a cleaning agent to bring water in the wash tank to pH 10, slightly Alkaline (Base.)
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The day cooking.
5:30 AM R/O start
6:00 AM cooking with concentrate
6:55 AM batch
7:00 AM 0 PSI
7:40 AM R/O done
8:00 AM 4.75” concentrate
9:00 AM 2.5”
9:15 AM start pH wash on R/O
10:00 AM batch
10:15 AM done
3:30 PM R/O pH wash done
Back to the farmhouse by 10:30 AM.
Decided to collect. Pickup the sap before the snow. Got 150 gallons. We are now over 100% of a crop.
Back to the farmhouse by 5:30 PM.