Posted by Adirondack case guy on March 17, 2015 at 18:51:47 from (74.69.160.79):
We got off to a tough start this morning. As I mentioned in the last update, we had a leaky storage tank and had to flood the small evaprorator, to store the sap. Well dam, the front Stainless Steel pan had a leak and we lost most of the sap in it overnight. about 50 gal. I can't soder SS so we pulled the pan and took it to local welding shop for repair and had it back about 1:00pm. I was able to soder the rear flue pan,on that evaporator after we transfered the sap to the other one as it is not SS. The old flue pan in the big evaporator has some minor leaks, but we can live with them. We fired the big evaporator about 10:00 this morning and the one we had to repair about 2:00 this afternoon. About 4:30 this afternoon, the big evaporator had a 4 gal batch ready to pull off and filter and bottle. It graded medium amber. A storm front came through about 2:00 with heavy snow and the temp started droping rapidly. the snow is still deep, and has granulated, and snowshoes help, but it is brutle trying to carry 12 gal of sap on them. I was also having a rough time pulling the gathering trailer with my tractor, as the packed roads were not supporting the weight and the trailer was bottoming out. In the 5th pic, the other trailer dropped one wheel into a crevis in the bedrock that the bush grows on, and luckally we got it out without tareing the old 50s Case ground drive manure spreader chasis apart. Thmps are suposed to drop to low teens overnight for the next two days, and only get to 20s tomarrow. My cousin and uncle are going to tend the evaporators until the storage tanks are down to a point where they will empty with the residual heat in the evaporators, after shut down. I expecty they will turn the lights off in the asphouse around midnight tonight, and probably have about 50 gal of syrup bottled. We need to gather/empty the remaining 1000 buckets tomarrow before they freeze solid and blow the bottoms out. The last pic is a pic of the 7"screen of back-up camera system that I mounted in the cab of my Case 440 to veiw what is going on behind me, as It is getting much harder to rotate my neck rearward. Don't want to start moving when someone is out of my rear site line. Just having fun in paradise HeHe Loren, the Acg.
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