16 \u00bc hours. Into the woods by 5:15 AM. Back to the farmhouse by 9:30 PM. It\u2019s been many years since we\u2019ve had such a long day: that was before the R\/O. We weren\u2019t firing well. Too little wood and too far out of the firebox. Figured it out by 6:00 PM. Loaded the firebox with wood and pulled it closer to the front of the firebox. This gave sustained boils with firing every 20 minutes as opposed to firing every 7-10 minutes with weak boils. Burned a lot of wood with poor results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mid-30s overnight. Cloudy in the morning. Mostly sunny by late afternoon. The trees dripped. We had no bandwidth to collect. Focused on cooking. Miss the R\/O, but have to focus on what we have instead of what could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We did finish three milk cans of syrup. Put the syrup into a 20 gallon stainless steel drum. This is a first for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7:00 AM 22 \u00bd\u201d
8:00 AM 21 \u201c
9:00 AM 19 \u00bc\u201d
10:00 AM 18\u201d
11:00 AM 16 \u00be\u201d
11:00 AM batch
12:00 PM 15 \u00bd\u201d
1:00 PM14 \u00bc\u201d
2:00 PM 12 \u00bd\u201d
3:00 PM 11 1\/8\u201d
4:00 PM 9 \u00bd\u201d
5:00 PM 8 \u00bd\u201d
5:00m PM batch
6:00 PM 7\u201d
7:00 PM 5 \u00bd\u201d
8:00 PM 3 \u00be\u201d
9:00 PM batch
9:05 PM 2\u201d
9:20 PM done
9:30 PM farmhouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cook tomorrow again. Embrace the firing technique. Likely collect on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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