Up to 63 today. Only 40s overnight. Its interesting to see the day change when you are outside all day. Daybreak was sunny, but quickly got cloudy. By 11:00 AM it rained. Not a lot but got the surfaces wet. By 2:30 PM it cleared and got sunny. Tonight close to freezing and cooler tomorrow: only 40s. We are hoping for one more sap run maybe by Saturday.
Into the woods by 8:00 AM. Its a different routine cooking with the R/O. Still clean the syrup pan first, but then switch on the R/O. 225 gallons of sap becomes 112 gallons of concentrate. By 10:00 you are feeding sap into the evaporator. Batches of syrup become ready quickly. By 3:00 PM our concentrate tank was empty.
We bottled syrup at 3:30 PM. By 5:15 we were back in the farm house. By comparison without the R/O it would have been 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM before finishing both today and tomorrow.
It felt like a sauna in the syrup building today. When its warm outside the heat from the steam makes it even warmer inside.
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