550 gallons in one 14 hour day. That’s a first. Couldn’t have done it without the R\/O. It would have been three days cooking. All the tanks are empty.<\/p>\n
Into the woods by 6:15 AM. Wanted to start early and also had a meeting at 7:00 AM that took an hour away. Prepared everything until about 6:50. Returned at 8:00 to light the fire and start the R\/O. Started drawing from the concentrate tank at 9:30 AM. By 11:00 AM took off the first batch. And every hour for the next seven hours took off a batch. We now have three milk cans of syrup that need finishing and bottling.<\/p>\n
At 1:30 PM we could have stopped the R\/O and cooked the concentrate we had. Would have finished between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM. But decided to push on with the R\/O to finish the last 200 gallons. Concentrate doesn’t keep well so when sap is processed through the R\/O it should be cooked. We had good boils and it made sense to push on and empty the tanks. Slacked off firing the last 1 \u00bd hours. Should have pushed harder and finished earlier. Back to the house by 8:30 PM.<\/p>\n
Very windy all day. It froze overnight. We saw ice on the puddles. Sunny and 30s today but wind made if feel much colder. Trees dripped a little but not enough to collect. We also needed a break after three days of almost 1000 gallons of sap,<\/p>\n
Now it turns colder again. Snow possible. No sap expected for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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