back to sugaring

We had a good break for a few days here . The weather says cold nights and warm days for awhile so we will most likely boil again tomorrow Sunday . We did a count and found 16 gallons on the shelf and people have taken some so we are half way to our goal of 30 gallons . We are still having trouble getting the evaporator working good . The book says it should talk off 40 to 45 gallons of sap per hour but we are doing around half of that. with the snow down we can now get to better wood (hemlock slabs ) so that might help. Going to get a little sawing done before we gather in the afternoon. Jim