Started the days work by finishing up tapping. We had 50 taps to put out yet. And these were some of best running trees. We put our largest buckets, 16 quarts, on these trees.\u00a0 It did not freeze last night.\u00a0 The taps we put out on Monday and Tuesday ran all night.\u00a0 As we walked around the woods we could see we needed to collect. So we called for help and then got the collecting tank cleaned and setup.\u00a0 About 2:00 pm we headed out to collect. Some buckets were full.\u00a0 Most were at least half full.\u00a0 By the time we finished we had 300 gallons of sap.\u00a0 Not bad for the first collection of the season.\u00a0 We had a little trouble with a valve on the storage tank.\u00a0 It would not seal.\u00a0 We ended up taking it apart to fix it.\u00a0 A leaky valve would cause us to loose a great deal of sap.\u00a0 We did not get any rain yet.\u00a0 Now its forecast to come in tonight.\u00a0 And its not supposed to freeze either.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will get the evaporator cleaned and setup and start boiling the sap to make our first syrup of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Started the days work by finishing up tapping. We had 50 taps to put out yet. And these were some of best running trees. We put our largest buckets, 16 quarts, on these trees.\u00a0 It did not freeze last night.\u00a0 The taps we put out on Monday and Tuesday ran all night.\u00a0 As we walked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-season-89"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}