Fox 11 TV from Green Bay, WI was out to visit today.  They called last week about coming but with the warm weather there was nothing to see.   They arrived a little after 10:00 AM.  Spent about 45 minutes here taking video.  Of course that will get edited down to maybe a 3 minute story.  The also visited another sugar maker west of Manitowoc.  He is on vacuum tubing with a nice modern system.   We are old school.

 

Here is a link to the story.

 

http://fox11online.com/2015/03/18/maple-syrup-season-off-to-a-slow-start/

 

Down to 23 overnight.  Up to 43 during the day.   The sap did run.  Likely will collect tomorrow.

 

Out in the woods by 8:00 AM to cook.  All kinds of small problems today.  The burners on the finishing pan would not start so I had to clean the syrup pan on the bottling burner.  One good note: just about no nitre so far.

 

Got the leak fixed on the R/O.  The O rings needed adjusting and more food grade grease.   Discovered one more leak on the fitting go into the per-filter.  Fixed that then started a wash cycle.  That takes almost 7 hours.   The R/O has to heat the water as it passes through and that takes time.  At the end of the cycle the value on the wash tank would not close.  Its PVC and did not seem to like the heated water from the R/O.  Finally got that closed.    Hopefully we are ready to actually try using the R/O on the next sap run.