Experienced boiler here- 1st year a little scorch when I drained a pan while still over fire and one pan boiled over. Some people learn from a little bump, some from a crash. I've been fortunate.
Better late than never reaching out, “..it” happens. I have family in Vermont who’ve been in the Maple business for a very, very, very loonnnggg time that have had catastrophes happen like this and they’ve survived very well. Something about the sweetness of maple. Hang in there and keep the vids coming and have a great season.👍
I have learned hard lessons also Always trust your senses Hearing, sight, smell, ect they never malfunction You smelled something odd and out of the ordinary enough to consult your brother and oh brother it got out of hand The extra boiling pan was a life saver thats what experienced farmers are so good at , backup plans, thinking on their feet , and getting back to business regardless of the hour on the clock its a lifesyle not a job good recovery!
We go hard in season and when you're tired it's easy to get complacent make mistakes. You mentioned alarms on your evaporator. We have an emergency shut off if the back pan gets too low. I mucked up last season while unloading some pallets of barrels. Accidentally raised the forks too high while backing up, I didn't have them locked in and they fell off of the tractor arm on top of the cab, rolled off the cab onto the hood and smashed the windshield. It still eats at me a year later.
I was doing a little remodel work in a friend's house. As I was hanging Crown Molding over the range my ladder gave out. I crashed onto the fairly new Induction Range and broke the stove top. The whole stove top was ruined. We couldn't find a replacement top that wasn't 2 weeks away, so we had to buy a whole new range, $2,000. No profit in that job even though the insurance covered the cost. I still have that range in my shed. I was going to buy a replacement top for $600 and put it in my kitchen. I kept forgetting about it
Oh Yes, I been there at Blue Eye Maple Syrup! Burn the Syrup pan better yet destroyed the syrup pan! I was ready to quit right there but my neighbor stop by talk me out of it.I guess it Live and learn!
I messed up a RO once & called a friend of mine in a panic. He has 30+ years making sugar. He told me if you’re not making mistakes then you’re not making syrup. I was able to get the part in 2 days & was back at it.
Thats cooking folks!!!! Woah, glad you had a backup!! ..... P.S. I'll order that Dark/ Amber!! LoL God Bless you guys, glad you caught it when you did.
Ouch!😬😆…I don’t think Warren will be able to work his magic on that! My crew always say “if I had an SOP to read, this wouldn’t have happened!”…here’s looking at you dad!! Just kidding! Maybe it can be upcycled?…feed trough? Trailer? A farmer never throws anything out!! Especially something that expensive 😅
Turned off the evaporator and used Permeate water from the silo. Yea someone needs to be there at all times while it’s running we try to have at least 2 people there as one fills barrels and watches the ro while the other runs the evaporator.
We all make mistakes. That is farming. No one was injured only pride. Wonderful that you had a backup plan and repairs Thank you and your family for the wonderful nectar of the trees.
Wow Nikki, that's not good. But like everyone else is saying: nobody got hurt, nobody died, and the shanty is still standing; I'd say count your blessings.
My wife and I make maple syrup in maine Lets just say we know the feeling of burning up a pan LOL.They say you haven't made maple syrup if you don't burn up a pan. We will be enjoying alot of late nights soon here.We love your videos.
My mom always said you learn from your mistakes , a least no one got hurt or it didn't start your beautiful new building on fire,love watching your videos ,keep them coming .❤❤
@@MapleFarmerseems I remember a video back when you guys first built the new place. Something with false smoke alarm I think but seem maybe. But as much as you guys put in to the building. I would get a fire suppression system where the key places of fire. Better to have and not use then to not have and need. We all are human and make mistakes unfortunately. I feel you have some good ones that never got told to dad of mess ups 😉😂 we all have one or two 😅😂
Wow thats some burnt damage, just curious do you not have fire suppression attached to that? We use to run a 20 foot deep fryer and had a halon system that we had to use once. Can it be rebuilt?
we all make mistakes, we all learn from them also the people that say they have not made a mistake are full of BS learn as a team and put things in place so it wont happen again
I'm so sorry that happened Nikki! I'm sure it scared you to death! I thought you guys were already using the steam evaporator. What stopped the flow of sap to the evaporator?
Yup. The kicker is that we have all the alarms we just didn’t have them all hooked up since moving to the new building and the one that was hooked up was working on and off and we never fixed it 🤦♀️
Sorry about your loss, humble pie is never good even with maple syrup. . . BUT I have a question, do you actually have sap running the second week in January?? I thought the sap flow did not start till late winter (Mar. or April?) I enjoy your videos!! Thanks! S. Carolina
Oh no!! At least you didn’t burn your sugar shack to the ground 😬 I have seen that happen and it’s never good but like you said, nobody got hurt and that’s the main concern. I’m assuming that there will be a 25% price increase this year for syrup lol I’m joking 😝 I always say that you learn from your mistakes but Nikki I think you might be able to pass this one off on your brother, he did say it was fine lol. Glad everyone is ok and you guys are back up and running!! 💪💪
So sorry this had to happen, thankfully no one was injured! May I ask where you purchased the precision tapping tool you are using. Appreciate your candor, be safe! From east central Minnesota.
I tap only 180 trees and have 2x6 evaporator and I have burnt the finish pan on 2 occasions, but still use it it’s dimpled on the bottom. When it happens it is very fast , I always keep water on the ready! I think most of us have burnt front pans before but you did a great job on yours! I hope you have had a good season despite the set back !
A friend also burnt his pan two years ago exact same situation, alarms didn't work,probably took about 18 hours to clean and get back in service, didn't catch on fire, don't know what it did too it's service life.the other bitch of it was the pan was only a year old.
ran a wood fired preheater on a 20k gal a season farm, thank you for showing the ugly, i never saw this happen in the 2 years i ran the arch, but was made painfully aware by the bosses if this happened i would probably be better off jumping into the firebox and not coming out lol. i see the pain in your eyes this is not an easy pill to swallow. props to you for bucking up, showing us your mistake and making the best of it 💚
Hello, IF you would caught it in time, you would have had smoked maple sugar, stuff happens, I hope it did not set you back to bad money wise, it takes a little time to recover from this, and I hope it is all over and merely a memory.
Dad was so mad because he's accepting that it's ultimately his fault. That or he's not worthy of being the boss. I'm not a hater. At the end of the day, it's the bosses responsibility. So sorry that this happened.
If you can’t trust your employees to do things themselves without micro managing you’re not a very good boss. I don’t like to play the blame game as I know when I’m at fault
Hence, not unlike your family, in agriculture you need redundancy in all vital equipment. Glad you had the backup pan. As for trusting automated systems, the more automated we become the more "oh shits" are going to happen.
So sorry this happened but thankful no one was hurt. I have toasted my share of pans. It is so easy to think you have everything set up right and then forget to open a valve, have a float set wrong, a non working sight glass or simply run out of sap. We have had open valves at gathering tanks, releasers stuck open, separated mainlines, frozen pipes and rafters on fire (that water pump and garden hose were the best $200 I've ever spent!) We just throw our arms in the air to signal a touchdown and exclaim (with relief) "No one got hurt!"
Nikki, sorry to hear that this happened. The way to look at it is that your dad cannot fire you, he just spend a lot of money training you. 😊. I was confused in the beginning when you said that it was near the end for the season, I didn’t think that the sap had started to run yet this year. Ken
@@MapleFarmer hopefully you have kept all the parts and oart of that beautiful building can be a museum ( tax write offs?) Of all your families history in msple farming and a learning center. Local classes can come for educational trips etc. More free publicity etc.
