Taking a break from running lines today to get our tractor out of the mud, not our typical January weather here lately!

Our fourth property near Greenville, almost all of the main lines are laid out and we’ve started running laterals. It’s going to be a sprint to finish in January, then straight to tapping!

Our new 3,000 gallon fuel oil tank. Before the use of Reverse Osmosis (RO) machines it could easily take 4+ gallons of oil to make a gallon of syrup. By boiling sap that’s 16% sugar instead of just the 2% that comes out of the trees, along with the use of a steam pan to preheat incoming sap, we should only need to use around 1/4th of a gallon of oil per gallon of syrup.