It's Valentine's Day and we just now really got started. But we have plenty of light now.
After all the rain earlier in the week we couldn't get into the woods to collect so between Friday and Saturday we got about 265 gallons. Fortunately it the warm temperatures didn't spoil the sap.
After building a bracket for our new sap filter, getting all the tanks in place and assembling the evaporator we boiled off all but about 70 gallons of the sap. The first boil never yields a lot, so we probably only got about a quart, but it should pick up on Wednesday.
Switching back to wood the temperature is a lot less consistent than with the gas so it's like learning to do it all over again. We also noticed that there is a lot more heat coming off the firebox than with the gas burner. We had stacked some wood against the side all morning, then later in the day the stack almost caught fire; it was hot enough to have embers, but not flaming yet. It's not like the fire department hasn't been out before, but we'd prefer not to have them come again.
The weather looks really good for this week except for rain Wednesday so hopefully we'll get a lot of sap this week.
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