26 overnight.\u00a0 Sunny and 45 today.\u00a0 The last three days have been the idyllic weather associated with maple syrup season:\u00a0 \u00a0freezing nights, sunny days, the snow sill in the woods but melting.\u00a0 We seldom get that.<\/p>\n
Into the woods by 6:30 AM to wash the finishing pan.\u00a0 Had help at 7:30 to dump in a milk can syrup.\u00a0 We needed to bottle to free up milk cans for more syrup.\u00a0 We had two full milk cans of syrup and started on a third.\u00a0 We knew we would collect today and that meant more syrup coming.\u00a0 Bottled 27 quarts.\u00a0 Grade A Robust.\u00a0 The first syrup is usually lighter.<\/p>\n
Trees started dripping by 10:00 AM.\u00a0 The sap from yesterday was already in the buckets so we knew there would be a big haul.\u00a0 Set out collecting at 3:00 PM.\u00a0 \u00a0Many full or overflowing pails.\u00a0 We had storage for 600 gallons.\u00a0 Had a spare 100 gallon tank at the yet that we setup.\u00a0 We ended up with 700 gallons of sap.<\/p>\n
Our new pump and hoses with quick connect finally worked as envisioned.\u00a0 This was a good to get the pump and hoses figured out..\u00a0 The pump problem was a bad extension cord that didn\u2019t deliver the volts or amps the pump needed to turn over.\u00a0 It takes about 12 minutes to empty the collecting tank.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we cook.\u00a0 Most likely we won\u2019t cook through all 700 gallons.\u00a0 \u00a0Need to check if we have to collect tomorrow again.\u00a0 But the dripping did slow down by 5:00 PM which is good.\u00a0 Forecast is 33 overnight with clouds and snow showered tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n
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26 overnight.\u00a0 Sunny and 45 today.\u00a0 The last three days have been the idyllic weather associated with maple syrup season:\u00a0 \u00a0freezing nights, sunny days, the snow sill in the woods but melting.\u00a0 We seldom get that. Into the woods by 6:30 AM to wash the finishing pan.\u00a0 Had help at 7:30 to dump in a […]<\/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-614","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\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}