What are your goals for this year???

[red maples]

I am still trying to hit that elusive Quart per tap!!! Really hoping I hit it this year. We'll just have to wait and see.
and I wanna loose 10-15lbs during the season.:emb: If is alot of boiling I usually hit that no problem....shed that winter fat!!!!

[vtwoody]

My goal is to have my act together in time to sugar this year...lol.

Just got my 2X4 dropped flue pan back from the shop from leak repair. Looking to insulate and brick the arch in next couple days, get the arch out in the woods below my house (under construction), pick up some 3/4"line to run up hill from a 275 gal. cage tank by the arch, run some laterals, put together drops, and, oh yeah, throw up some kind of shelter around the arch. If I was further ahead then I am now, I would probably be considering tapping next week, depnding upon the weather. A lot of the commercial guys are up and running but we haven't had good temps up here in N. VT to really get it going....at least, I haven't seen any steam yet from the hills....

Not far now..... ;)

[adk1]

I just wanna make syrup, I would love to make 30 gallons, that would be nice. and not burn my pans being my first year.

[twitch]

Finish sugar house and get my **it together before I tap!!!!

[Amber Gold]

Brad, how come you didn't make that last season? Couldn't have asked for a better year for it. I heard of guys on gravity making 0.5gpt. I usually shed that much during the season...usually running ragged by the end, but having fun.

Goal this year is 0.5+ gpt on my 600 tap vac. woods, 1000 taps total including buckets & gravity tubing, and 500 gal of quality product.

[fishman]

adk1 - you don't have time to make any syrup, you're too busy posting.:)

[red maples]

2 things. Everyone else was making syrup before my trees finally broke free. we had that great snow pack but a few days before it really started flowing I got rain which produced a wonderful 3 foot ice ring around all the trees so the stump was frozen for the first week...not a whole lot I could so when you were getting 600 gallons of sap a day(and I should have been getting 250 - 300 ) I was getting 50 if I was lucky so I missed about a week. then at the end of the season I ran out of dry wood. SO I hung it up a little early. SO this year so far zero snow pack and I got 11 cords of wood I better not run out!!! I figure I missed out on about 25-30 gallons give or take!!! the begining I couldn't do anything about the end well that happens I guess!!


Brad, how come you didn't make that last season? Couldn't have asked for a better year for it. I heard of guys on gravity making 0.5gpt. I usually shed that much during the season...usually running ragged by the end, but having fun.

Goal this year is 0.5+ gpt on my 600 tap vac. woods, 1000 taps total including buckets & gravity tubing, and 500 gal of quality product.

[500592]

Hoping for 50 gal 100 vac taps 50 buckets

[SSFLLC]

adk1 I was reading what you haveat the bottom of your page. I hope you have more than the 200 gallon holding tank for your sap. On a good run you will be getting 2 gallons per tap.

[adk1]

nope, that is all I have at the moment! actually probably only holds 175 gallons. these are pretty small trees, 80% of them I would guess to be 8"

[wiam]

How much tank you need also has to do with how soon you can start boiling.

[Tithis]

I mostly just want to make enough for my personal use and hopefully enough to sell off to cover equipment costs. My wood was free this year and I'm enjoying myself so I'm not counting labor.

[jmayerl]

My goals are to make syrup from the 1st day my pans show up until June! And to not burn the shack down!

[wnybassman]

My goal this year is to choose the right time to tap. Wacky weather for sure.

[SPILEDRIVER]

wacky ny weather is for sure! febuary 1 and there calling for ideal sapping weather next 10 days straight,im not waiting im tapping friday and hope to boil saturday.im shooting for 100 gallons but ill be happy with 50...gonna put my 2x5 to work

[shane hickey]

To make 3000 plus gallons of syrup

[treemonkey]

For 2012, will have 100 taps, all on tubing, Vacuum, building a 2 x 6 wi AUF & AOF, new shack, and pans should get here in time. Hope all the time and engineering works!!! Looking for somewhere to buy a little extra luck!!! Just need a little normal weather. Good Luck All!!!

[danno]

My goal this year is to choose the right time to tap. Wacky weather for sure.

Ditto that. I am at a complete loss as to when to tap. It makes it easier that I'm not ready, but I could make myself ready within a few days. Seems that I re-plumb the the sugarhouse every year.

[RevDoc]

I'd be delighted to have syrup left over at the end of the year.
I'm down to 2 QUARTS!! left from last year, and I hate rationing.

Hopeing to finally produce 10 gallons.

/got to stop with the giving away and selling nonsense
//until my own supply is secure.