Cloudy all day.\u00a0 It was down to maybe 30 overnight.\u00a0 Not very cold.\u00a0 Up to about 38.\u00a0 Into the woods about 11:00 AM.\u00a0 Checked buckets..\u00a0 Definitely need to collect.\u00a0 Buckets ranged from a one quart to 12 quarts of sap depending on the tree.\u00a0\u00a0 We planned to start collecting by 1:30 PM.<\/p>\n
First we cleaned the evaporator syrup pan.\u00a0 There was no heat under that pan now so its a good time to clean it.\u00a0\u00a0 If we don’t clean it after each boiling the nitre build up causes odd heat dispersal that makes the syrup pan boil over.\u00a0\u00a0 Cleaning it after each boil just makes life easier.<\/p>\n
At 1:30 PM headed out collecting.\u00a0 Solo.\u00a0 It takes five to six hours to collect the woods solo.\u00a0 Pacing is important so you don’t get tired out before finishing.\u00a0 And you will finish in the dark.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
On the R\/O.\u00a0 The manufacturer called.\u00a0\u00a0 It did ship from the factory in Canada to the US.\u00a0 The manufacturer’s US rep said he saw it.\u00a0\u00a0 Shipping is the next delay.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The earliest it would arrive is March 14 or 15.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is exactly what we did not want: trying to setup new equipment in the middle, or even the end of the season.\u00a0\u00a0 This manufacturer really let us down.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we have to decide if we even attempt to set it up this season.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Tomorrow and Saturday we will cook.\u00a0 At some point during the next days we are forecast for 2\u201d-3\u201d of snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cloudy all day.\u00a0 It was down to maybe 30 overnight.\u00a0 Not very cold.\u00a0 Up to about 38.\u00a0 Into the woods about 11:00 AM.\u00a0 Checked buckets..\u00a0 Definitely need to collect.\u00a0 Buckets ranged from a one quart to 12 quarts of sap depending on the tree.\u00a0\u00a0 We planned to start collecting by 1:30 PM. First we cleaned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-season-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}