A super cell with tornadoes is moving in from the west at about 50 mph.\u00a0 This could be a long night of storms.\u00a0 Last night’s storms were non-events.\u00a0 It rained this morning starting about 7:30 AM and lasted about 45 minutes.\u00a0 Then became party cloudy and warm.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Into the woods by 9:00 AM.\u00a0 Staying late to slowly boil down the sap in the evaporator paid off.\u00a0 We emptied the evaporator today.\u00a0 Had about 20 gallons remaining.\u00a0 We took the big pan off to rinse it.\u00a0 Got water.\u00a0 Replaced the pan and filled it with water.\u00a0\u00a0 Then we could boil the remaining sap on the front pan.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Removing the big pan is a challenge.\u00a0 It is about 4′ x 3′.\u00a0 Its heavy gauge stainless steel so it weighs over 100 lbs.\u00a0 Its hard to move.\u00a0 We actually use ramps to slide it off the evaporator and onto the floor were we can more easily handle it.<\/p>\n
By about 3:00 PM we had boiled the remaining sap down.\u00a0 It should not take too long to finish on the gas finishing pan.\u00a0 Not sure if we finish and bottle Monday or Tuesday.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
All the buckets and covers are in.\u00a0 We hustled this afternoon as the weather looked threatening.\u00a0 Some spouts are still in, but they won’t blow around or get wet.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
We can see the end of clean up now.\u00a0 The buckets are in.\u00a0 The sap ready for the finishing pan.\u00a0 Tomorrow we work on cleaning the evaporator.\u00a0 We have two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A super cell with tornadoes is moving in from the west at about 50 mph.\u00a0 This could be a long night of storms.\u00a0 Last night’s storms were non-events.\u00a0 It rained this morning starting about 7:30 AM and lasted about 45 minutes.\u00a0 Then became party cloudy and warm.\u00a0 Into the woods by 9:00 AM.\u00a0 Staying late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-season-94"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}