Good day yesterday

[Shawn]

Crack of a day yesterday here. Collected 285 gallons and boiled and boiled. Started to boil at seven yesterday morning from left over from Thursday and kept on going until midnight last night. Cold here last night and cold north wind at this point. As of last night we have bottled up thirty one and three quarter gallons.:cool:

[PerryW]

I still can't figure out what it ran so well yesterday (friday)? If I used vacuum, I'd be bragging about how good the pump worked pulling sap all day without a freeze! It never really froze after an exceptional run on thursday, yet my colder taps ran the best of the whole season. ALmost every bucket was 3/4 full at 3 PM yesterday yet I had gathered at 8:30 PM the nite before (and they are big 4 gal. buckets).

[Shawn]

It was a strange day. Did not freeze up here Thursday night and some of my stud trees around my house did not run very good, but way out in woods where I have my pipeline those were pumping the sap out, we had on with 45 taps on it that the holding tank was running over at noon. Some must have run all night. Its in the 20's here now with a cold north wind. I dont see it opening up perhaps today to late, Sunday looks like they will. We have 100 gallons to boil off this morning and will go from that point. A night off would be good.:cool:

[PerryW]

It was a strange day. Did not freeze up here Thursday night and some of my stud trees around my house did not run very good, but way out in woods where I have my pipeline those were pumping the sap out, we had on with 45 taps on it that the holding tank was running over at noon. Some must have run all night. Its in the 20's here now with a cold north wind. I dont see it opening up perhaps today to late, Sunday looks like they will. We have 100 gallons to boil off this morning and will go from that point. A night off would be good.:cool:

I was wondering if the good run had something to do with the Doctor's Theory that a slow-freeze will make the trees run better? The freeze up last wednesday happened during a relatively windy nite (as I recall). Same thing last night. Maybe when it's a windy-freeze, the whole trees freezes more evenly allowing better uptake of water? Under a normal radiational-cooling freeze, the ground freezes first, while the upper parts of the tree are actually still above freezing.