Into the woods by 10:00 AM to run the rinse cycle on the R/O and check if the re-circulation pump starts. It did! Yeah! We’ll still monitor the pump.
We planned to collect today. Sap ran into the night on Wednesday, two days ago. Also ran yesterday. By collecting today, we got the full run. The next 4-5 days are warm again. 50s. Even a 60 in there. Nights in the 40s. There won’t be much sap, but we’ll likely dump any that does come because it won’t keep in the warm weather.
Today was cloudy and rainy. Temperature in the 40s. We wanted to avoid the rain when collecting but it was there was a steady rain at 12:30 PM when we started. Or tried to start. The wagon had a broken carriage bolt on the front axle causing the front wheels to go in opposite directions.
Got a replacement carriage bolt at the hardware store. Fortunately, we weren’t deep in the woods with a tank full of sap. That would cause a challenge because we had to move the tank to access the carriage bolt. A full of sap would be too heavy to move. By the time we finished this repair, the rain stopped. Starting collecting by 1:45 PM. Collected 310 gallons.
Back to the farmhouse by 4:15 PM.