New Brunswick Tapping 2011

[murferd]

Finished tapping today. 850 give or take 50. Just need to hook the vacuum back up & get some decent weather.

[sniperdodo]

Hi murferd,
I tapped 15 lastweeek just to keep an eye on things. Nothing yet but this weekend is looking promising. Let me know if you get any sap.

[sniperdodo]

I have 62 taps installed this year. Only got 7 gallons of sap over the weekend though. When I walked my lines it only looked like a 4 trees were sapping. Hoping things speed up soon. How are all the other NBers making out?

[Nemo5]

I put 30 taps in on Friday and 50 more on Saturday. Collected 85 liters on Sunday. Did not check buckets today. I will add 20 more buckets tomorrow after work. The forecast for Wednesday and Thursday looks excellent.

[sniperdodo]

cooked my first 30 gal last week and cooking another 30 gal of sap this weekend. I was kinda hoping for more sap with 62 taps. All the research had me thinking that I could expect 1 gal per tap per day but I haven't even come close to that yet. I sure hope its because the season hasn't really started yet but I guess time will tell. How are the other NBers making out?

[murferd]

We've got approx 58 gallons of syrup so far. Not running great but ok. This weekend might be slow not warming up too much. Still lots of snow in woods, should be ok for awhile.

[woodburner]

How are you guys doing up there? We are done here, great year, but it is cold here. We have been around 12deg.F the last few nights and not reaching 32 in the day, no warmup for a week yet. Hope it isn't that cold there. Cleaning up and looking to start moving wood as soon as the mud goes down. About the amount of sap, we averaged 3pts of syrup per tap this year, very good for us. At 40 to 1 average, that wood be 15 gal of sap per tap for the whole season. That is with vacuum, sap per run is hard to figure some runs over lap but we do get more than 1gal per tap on a good run.

[sniperdodo]

Hi Woodburner,
Its been a slow start because of all the snow we got this year but things have finally started flowing. I am getting around 20 gal/day on 65 taps right now and it seems to be getting better every day. My sap is averaging 2.3%. It looks like we will have another 2-3 weeks before we really need to worry about pulling our taps, wish us luck.

[murferd]

Finished off our last batch today. Was hoping all week to get a little more sap, but didn't happen. Ended the year with 162 imp gallons. A good year all & all.

[Maple Restoration]

Hi Woodburner we have been going for the last four weeks and were not done yet were trying for one more week, still averaging 150 gallons per day and still fairly clear sap, our soft maple have budded we pull those taps 2 day ago will see what happens!