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hurdmaple
03-09-2009, 04:51 AM
the sap didn't run much this weekend in lyman. Did anyone in nothern nh have any better results?
maple maniac65
03-09-2009, 05:18 AM
I tap in sugar hill and on oregon road at the Hicks farm. We tapped 350 by 10:00 Saturday and picked up 125 gallons at 5:00. The other 187 were tapped by 12:30 and ran about 50 gallons. Yesterday I picked up 200 gallons Sap is running about 1.7%. Vacuum is helpful.
hurdmaple
03-09-2009, 05:40 AM
no vac this year all gravity pipeline about 200 taps about 70 of them soft maple
maple maniac65
03-09-2009, 07:53 PM
here at the house we have 272 on vacuum and over 1/2 of them are reds. A good day and I can get 300 gallons of sap and some have almost no tops just straight poles. I tap them because they are there and not hard to get to.
hurdmaple
03-09-2009, 07:56 PM
my soft maples are at home hope to have vacuum next year
PerryW
03-10-2009, 09:49 PM
Just finished up tapping everything except the buckets; about 750 taps total.

Got about 400 gallons of sap in the tank right now that ran today.

First boil tomorrow.
KenWP
03-10-2009, 09:55 PM
Some of mine are reds also and have poor tops. I tapped twice as many as I planned hopeing to get at least 40 gallons fo sap a week. So far am at about 3 cup fulls from 3 days of running. Today probbably 30 trees flowed and still nothing.
hurdmaple
03-11-2009, 07:59 PM
had my first boil of the year today. sap ran Tuesday during the day and night
maybe all the hard work will pay off yet.
PerryW
03-11-2009, 10:11 PM
First boil today also. 400 gallons of sap but didn't quite have enough to take off.

With a predicted high of 31 deg tomorrow and Friday, it looks like it will be too cold here in Lyman NH for the next couple days, but hopefully the weathermen are wrong and it will be a little warmer.
KenWP
03-11-2009, 10:27 PM
Supposed to be colder here also. Wind is blowing a hundred miles and hour so tomorrow will probbably have to hunt down buckets.
Mac_Muz
03-12-2009, 11:43 AM
Too cold in Tamworth NH. For anyone who might not know where Tamworth is, it is about 15 miles south of Conway NH.

Some of my swap bucket trees have 1 and 1/4 inches of rock hard ice this morning, but I can't say when the sap ran.

The thermometer claims 33 degrees, but the taps i just checked are frozen, or not showing any sap at all. The wind is up too.
KenWP
03-12-2009, 12:36 PM
It got cold fast as I have taps with ice in them. It has to get to 40 degrees for sap to run here at the moment. Once things thaw out more I can see it going better. Just to much snow and ice still.
Homestead Maple
03-12-2009, 02:37 PM
Temps where my sugar bush is were around 10 this morning with a wind chill below 0 and will be around 6 tonight, so there won't be any sap flow for a few days for sure.
hurdmaple
03-12-2009, 05:56 PM
cold here also and doesn"t look like it will run on Friday either. I bought 100 gals of sap from a local guy so I would have some to boil this weekend. He has more if anyone is interested you could call Jim 823 -8100
Stickey
03-12-2009, 06:00 PM
A couple of my taps had 4 inch icicles, but they were still dripping at a pretty good clip.
KenWP
03-12-2009, 07:44 PM
Word to the wise if you useing jugs instead of pails when the weather forecasts real cold empty them the night before. Is a pain to unthaw them the next day. If the wind had of stopped it would have warmed up enough the get things moving today. Saturday is forecast for 35 degrees hopeing for a bit more.