38 overnight.\u00a0 Cloudy with snow showers all day.\u00a0 Temperature up to 40 so the snow showers were unexpected.\u00a0 Must have been colder at higher altitude.\u00a0 No accumulation.<\/p>\n
In the woods by 6:00 AM.\u00a0 Needed extra time to assemble and prepare the R\/O.\u00a0 Got the evaporate pans washed out.\u00a0 Filled the evaporator with sap and got the fire going by 7:00 AM.\u00a0 Turned the focus to the R\/O.\u00a0 Connected all the hoses.\u00a0 \u00a0 Inserted the membrane then ran 200 gallons of water through it to prepare it from siting idol during the off season.\u00a0 Started concentrating at 10:30 AM.\u00a0 Took the sap to 7\u00b0 Brix (12:1).\u00a0 R\/O completed by 3:00 PM.\u00a0 Done cooking and back to the farmhouse by 5:30 PM.<\/p>\n
When starting from fresh sap it takes several hours to get going.\u00a0 It was 1:15 PM before the first batch was ready.\u00a0 But after that we took off batches about every hour.\u00a0 Four batches into the milk can.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0No sugar sand or nitre but the syrup was darker then expected for the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n
Forecast is 25 overnight.\u00a0 Connected the heating tape to the R\/O water tank hose to protect it from freezing.\u00a0 Tomorrow 40 and partly sunny.\u00a0 Hoping for sap.<\/p>\n\n\n
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38 overnight.\u00a0 Cloudy with snow showers all day.\u00a0 Temperature up to 40 so the snow showers were unexpected.\u00a0 Must have been colder at higher altitude.\u00a0 No accumulation. In the woods by 6:00 AM.\u00a0 Needed extra time to assemble and prepare the R\/O.\u00a0 Got the evaporate pans washed out.\u00a0 Filled the evaporator with sap and got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-season-102"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}