All set for the snow 
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I can feel that warm sun from here.
Here’s our current conditions and ten-day forecast. Honestly not too shabby for early March in northeastern Minnesota.
The big piles across the street are where all the downtown snow gets dumped now that they can’t dump it in the river.
The big piles across the street are where all the downtown snow gets dumped now that they can’t dump it in the river.
Picture perfect wood. We do not have white ash around here except for yard trees. I have one tree css in 2018 that is ready to burn now.
Reminds me of my neighbor's setup. He processed 74k gallons of sap last year! He runs it through a RO system to take out 90% of the water.
Do commercial syrup manufacturers only use heat (boil) evaporators? I would think someone would have tried a vacuum evaporator like this:
https://www.usalab.com/usa-lab-20l-...MIl56tw6-2_QIVhjWtBh1XmwjGEAQYASABEgLoqfD_BwE
Just an example. Didn't search around for pricing. Seems like it'd be more efficient. A 20L can pull off more than a gallon of water an hour with just a small vacuum pump. Unless of course the heat in an atmospheric boiler does something chemically other than removing water.
SS 396 can correct me if I'm wrong but the sap has to be boiled for a while to caramelize the sugars and develop the flavor.
Lee is right the heat caramelizes the sugars and binds the proteins and minerals or everything would drop out of suspension when stored . Also you need to sanitize it .
Is it normal for a sugar maple to dump sap over sumer? Only reason I ask, is my neighbor has a huge one over his house and where he parks. I'd swear that tree rains come fall before it looses its leaves.
Most any tree will drip , specially from a damaged area . I had a pine tree that was terrible for that
just Dave
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Our ice storm caused some big branches to break off. One of them was leaking sap and froze into sapcicles. The boys were breaking them off and sucking on them.
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Agreed, also I hate handling the splits or the rounds to be split any more than I have to, it's just so much easier to cut over a trailer,
then roll the rounds right onto the splitters beam and split them,
With my 3 point splitter I can work with it at any height I want it.
SR
Thanks for that.
How wide is that plow?
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I kind of thought that, but I don't know anything about syrup production. With a vacuum evaporator, you can reduce the water bath temp needed to pull off the water. Normally down to 140 to 160 F to prevent scorching I wish I had a .much smaller unit though. I can pick 20 gallons of Black Berries, juice them down in a pot and then concentrate as much as I want. Then add less sugar to thicken and can in a water bath to sterilize. You try to concentrate fruit juice on a stove and you'll scorch it. Water bath would be too slow to suit me.
