Tip top of tapping 2021

[PoseyCoMark]

Hello maple sap tappers! Wishing you all a good start to the season from Southern IN. I’m around the Mt. Vernon area and it appears weather is right for sap flow. 47 taps as of this week and wasn’t expecting to tap at all! You all know what it’s like. You say to yourself around December “I don’t know if I’ll have time for it this year, with work, family, projects, etc...” Then it’s January 15 ordering a bag of taps, extra tubing, filters, and on and on...

Happy tapping my friends!

[DrTimPerkins]

Best wishes for a great season to all.

[Mitchell tapper.]

Just made a little over 2 gallons off my 30 taps. Looks like the upcoming weather will be perfect.

[TonyL]

We tapped this past weekend, letting sap run on the ground to flush everything right now. Believe our count to be around 120-130 trees. Added more trees and built 2 homegrown automated(?) vacuum systems with shurflo pumps. Also purchased a new Smoky Lake Corsair 2x4. Lots of untried stuff, equal parts excitement and apprehension at how, or if, the new vac/pump systems will work. Hoping for a first boil this weekend. Good luck to my fellow Hoosier sugar makers!

[kharper]

Thanks guys, I was wondering if anyone here in the real southern Indiana had started yet

[Pdiamond]

Tony, which 2 x 4 pan or pan set did you get?

[TonyL]

We already had a Smoky Lake divided flat pan, so we stayed with that for now. If things go well and we continue to expand, maybe we will purchase a flue pan in a few years.

[PoseyCoMark]

Hey kharper, just bought a Geo Tracker from a guy in Haubstadt. Eventually it’ll be a mud/sap buggy.

[Ross]

Finally time up here. I have 75 taps out so far. The 30 sugars in the woods produced 35 gallons yesterday. The silvers in the yards are just starting to run.