Best time to install tubing?

[mspina14]

I'll be running 5/16 tubing this year from a "lunchbox" diaphram pump to about 100 red maple trees on my 5 acres.

I've used buckets up till now. This will be my first year with tubing.

When is the best time of the year to install tubing?

I assume I should wait till the leaves drop (won't be long now).

But should I run it in the next few weeks when the weather is still relatively mild?

Or wait till it's closer to sugar season?


Mark

[wiam]

You can install tubing anytime. Colder weather makes for colder hands though. I put my original 800 taps in February with over 3 feet of snow. (Not recommended) in my opinion it would be soon.

[Sugarmaker]

Yes anytime before you need to tap. I have done it in good weather and bad. I hung some of my first tubing(short run) when the temp was 5 below zero. Get 'r' done!
Regards,
Chris

[Chicopee Sap Shack]

Find a time when it is not to hot and not to cold. End of September to December is when I like to do the majority of mine


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[eagle lake sugar]

I've installed virtually all of mine in the winter in feet of snow, only because that was when I had the spare time. It takes half the time and effort though if you can do it on bare ground and in warmer weather.

[mspina14]

thanks for the advice guys.

sounds like now's the time!

I'm on it.

Just need to finish the other projects my wife has lined up for me....

Mark