{"id":275,"date":"2011-04-13T01:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T01:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-04-13T01:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T01:33:26","slug":"completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:56 PM we completed the season.\u00a0 Evaporator, finishing pan, bottling pan, storage tanks, floors all cleaned.\u00a0 The evaporator was the big item to finish.\u00a0 Both the inside and outside of the pans are clean.\u00a0 Stainless steel cleans up well, but still the burnt on carbon on the bottom of the evaporator pans requires some effort to clean.\u00a0 Scrap with putty knife.\u00a0 Spray with oven cleaner.\u00a0 Finish with metal polishing pads.\u00a0 And the nitre on the inside of the pans also takes effort.<\/p>\n<p>73 gallons, 1 pint.\u00a0 That is a good total from 400 taps on buckets, but still we feel let down.\u00a0 We were hoping for 75 or 76 gallons based on the amount of sap we collected.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3340 gallons of sap yielding 73 gallons 1 pint gives us a ratio of 45:1.\u00a0 That&#8217;s quite high. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today was sunny and nice so it was pleasing working in the woods.\u00a0 Started at 9:00 AM. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we head back to Washington, DC.\u00a0 After a few days reflection we will provide thoughts on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:56 PM we completed the season.\u00a0 Evaporator, finishing pan, bottling pan, storage tanks, floors all cleaned.\u00a0 The evaporator was the big item to finish.\u00a0 Both the inside and outside of the pans are clean.\u00a0 Stainless steel cleans up well, but still the burnt on carbon on the bottom of the evaporator pans requires some [&hellip;]<\/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-275","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\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}