Anyone tap this weekend

[Rick_Seebeck]

Anyone tapping this weekend or this coming week?

[Big maple]

We finished tapping yesterday about about a half hour before dark. Then we took what little sap we had and worked the kinks out of the new evaporator and had a few barley pops. Good time had by all.

[firetech]

Yep I'm still setting taps the sap crew is crying already after 2 pick-ups. They were bumed when I informed them we are not even 1/2 way tapped. Boiled off 200 gals today and got over 5 gals of syrup in the bucket, the pans were sweet from last weeks 150 gal boil. Now we need that 300 gals a day routine to get going.

[howden86]

I am going to start tuesday and hope to be done by sat. 2200 taps by traverse city

[kirkhedding]

I tapped 40 on Wed. Got about 80 gallons before the freeze on Fri. I'll tap another 70 on Tues. Looks like a great week coming up.

[Tweegs]

Yep.
Got 100 out. That will be all for this rookie shakedown year. More next year.

[michigansugarman]

We are in the Grand Rapids area and put out our 52 taps on Saturday, February 28. Based on the weather reports, we are hoping we get decent sap runs Wednesday thru Friday and to start boiling on Saturday, March 7 on our new Leader 2x4.

[michiganfarmer]

I am going to start tuesday and hope to be done by sat. 2200 taps by traverse city

Im 3 miles south of Kingsley

[michiganfarmer]

I dont want to tap any earlier than I have to. I am going to get tubing put out this week end. I dont know if I will have time to tap or not. Most likely, I will end up tapping after work during the week next week.

One guy who wants to sell me sap is tapping now. The problem wiht that is my evaporator is so big that I cant fire it up for only a couple hundred gallons, so I might have to tap something before I would like to.

[kirkhedding]

I finished putting the rest of my taps out today. I've got 107 taps out. Mainly using sap-bags. I have about another 25-30 trees I could tap, but Sugarbush Supplies was out of more sap-bag holders. Oh well, maybe next year.

[whalems]

I put out 20 of 70 on tubing (trying it for the first time) last night. Only had an hour of day light to work with. I am in Honor. Its about 25 miles west of traverse city.

[firetech]

Well we set 130 taps last nite. I think we will hold at 320 taps for a week before we add anymore. I don't want to be overwhelmed with sap and get flusterated. This is to be fun right???

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

firetech,
If you're not exhausted, you're not having fun:)

[glassman]

got forty out on buckets yesterday afternoon. that and cutting and splitting fire wood was a great work out. to think in december i didnt think i would tap this year. (ya right)

[kirkhedding]

Boy, I thought there would have been a lot more sap in the buckets this morning. Only about a quart each. Now tonight there was more, but I thought yesterday it would have ran more. Maybe just me.

[glassman]

not just you. thought i would collect today but it wasnt necessary. got another twenty out tho.

[Rick_Seebeck]

Sap did not start running until about 3:00 pm today. I thought for sure I would need to collect this afternoon but only an inch or so in each bucket by dark.

I hope it really goes tomorrow.

[Big maple]

Rick where ar you located? Our run started about ten and it seems to still be going strong. When I got off a jobsite at two I went down to find the raquet ball closing off the releaser and the wet pump we use for the releaser not running fixed it and were back in business again no idea how long it sat there like that but I do know it was too long.

[firetech]

Same here just a little disapointed with the volume of sap, the taps set last nite only gave about 1/2 gal for the 24 hrs. Even my sap cows were off the feed today. Oh well 250 of sap in the milk cooler,I'll cook it off Sat. Probably not much sap flow tonite or tomorrow. And it's my birthday so we'll go to town for supper. Gettin old at 49 haha.

[michiganfarmer]

Boy, I thought there would have been a lot more sap in the buckets this morning. Only about a quart each. Now tonight there was more, but I thought yesterday it would have ran more. Maybe just me.

If there is a lot of snow up against the tree, that will keep them cold, and they wont run much.

We need to get rid of this snow first.

Just my opinion

[whalems]

i got the rest of my taps in yesterday (63 total) and the sap was running pretty good. was very warm 54.

[Tweegs]

Same here just a little disapointed with the volume of sap, the taps set last nite only gave about 1/2 gal for the 24 hrs. Even my sap cows were off the feed today. Oh well 250 of sap in the milk cooler,I'll cook it off Sat. Probably not much sap flow tonite or tomorrow. And it's my birthday so we'll go to town for supper. Gettin old at 49 haha.

Hehe,
Turned 48 on the 3rd :)
Happy Birthday!

[Rick_Seebeck]

I am in Gladwin. We got about 1.5 gals per bucket total the last two days. I was hoping for more with the weather being warm. Oh well, I better be careful what I ask for!

[glassman]

of the twenty i set yesterday i got on an average two and a half gallons in twenty four hours, per tap. a couple had more. the ones i tapped on wednesday didnt do quite so well but not as bad as i thought with the warm night.

wally

[michiganfarmer]

I had my mainline up, and my vacuum pump hooked up last weekend. I should have the 300 taps for the tubing all in by this evening. Im about half done now. I can only work on it after work at ngiht. Im going to try to get 300 buckets hung by the end of the day saturday.

this weekend, and next week looks really good

[glassman]

poor mans ro is working great this morning

[Greenthumb]

yes it is! waiting for a little more sap to start boiling this afternoon right now all is frozen nothing is running yet