Posted by Adirondack case guy on April 07, 2015 at 18:00:25 from (74.69.160.79):
Looks like we are entering the biggest week of the 2015 Maple Sugaring season, here in central NY. The deep snow has melted and settled, so no more need for snow shoes. Temps dropped below freezing and more snow fluries over the Easter weekend, after a record syrup production day on Good Friday. We figure that today we would get back to gathering sap, but ended up haveing to gather late yesterday afternoon. We started gathering at 9:00 this morning, and the cousin fired the evaporators the same time. My Davis home weather station indicated that humidity was at 86%, pretty hard to get the moisture out of sap when the air has that much moisture in it. Todays rain front has passed and we are now down to 67% moisture and the sap will turn to syrup quicker. As you see in pics.,earlier today the steam was not riseing, from the vents on the sugar house but just settling back to the ground with a light wind from the NE. I left the sugar house about 5:00 and we had filled two more SS 40gal barrels of medium grade A syrup. We may end up with another record day with well over 100gal production. We will start gathering again tomarrow at 9:00 as we still have 2.5 roads that we couldn't gather as the storage tanks and gathering tanks were full. We may also have to start cutting more firewood to make it through the season. Loren, the Acg.
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