Bill's Sugar Shack

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Put out 1st two taps yesterday in the back yard. Mostly just for the heck of it. One was dripping, other not.
Plan to tap ones in Newport Sat..

[3% Solution]

Hey Bill,
Again your ahead of me again!!!!!
Going to get started around here today.
Good luck to ya.
Keep us posted.

Dave

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Tapped my Newport taps this morning. 33* at the time, but all holes started dripping. Let the fun begin.

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

I put up 25 today. Plan on all 50 by monday.

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

Collected about 18 gallons from my 25 taps. I'm already boiling on my kitchen stove:)

[Haynes Forest Products]

There goes the paint. Make sure that your wife has a new color for the new paint job she will be getting in April:o

[Stickey]

There goes the paint. Make sure that your wife has a new color for the new paint job she will be getting in April:o

:lol: :mrgreen:

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Brought home 20 gal of sap..boiled enough to sweetin the pans abit...mostly just to get it into the pan. Plus to look for any problums before big sap comes..

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Slow run this week...
Brought home about 10 gal of sap Fri..Boiled enough Sat to get it into pan.
No finished yet, but getting closer.

Did a temp check on my preheater set up..had sap warmed to 150 before it hit the pan..warmer than i had thought..

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Brought home 17 gal of sap...boiled long enough to get it into pan.
No finish yet..but have a batch getting close..

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Sap sure slowed down..
Checked Fri att 11 n was just starting to drip.
Fun timing when to run to Newport to gather...Wifes mom passed Thur, so having to time stuff around those doings..
Should have some finished tommorrow (fingers crossed).

[3% Solution]

Good morning Bill,
Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law, my condolences.
Well that sap isn't slow over here, it was chugging right along yesterday afternoon on the hill.
Have fun boiling.

[3% Solution]

How's it going over there in Clareville???
Got you swimmies on??

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Boiled yesterday's sap off this morning 1st thing (not as much sap as i had hoped.

Finished off 2 quarts and a cup.

Total sap for season to date is 54 gal from 11 taps...

[HudsonHawk]

Hi Bill.....it's nice to see someone on here that's not running hundreds if not thousands of taps! I DO appreciate all the expertise of the "bigger" guys, but it's nice to see someone talk about the kind of #'s I can relate to!!
We've been able to gather a pretty good amount of sap from my biggest trees this year...we've processed a little over 80 gals of sap in 2 weekends from our 22 taps altogether for a total of 2 gals and 1 half pint of syrup. 7 of our taps haven't done squat...must be placement of the trees or something...but my 4ft diameter trees are awesome every year!! Got a line on 40-50 trees of good size for next year, but will definetly have to have at least a small evaporator to add those in! Kinda tough to do those #'s on a couple of turkey fryers!!!!! Good luck and keep sappin'!!

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Finished off another 3 1/3 Qts this morning...so 5 1/2 Qts total so far.
Sap ran pretty good Sun...but Mon only a qt sap per tap..:confused:

[Bill'sSugarShack]

REAL disapointed in runs this week. Even with good freezes at night most of the week, only averaged a quart of sap per tap.
Will boil this mornig..
Hope others are doing better............

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Boiled in the 20 gal of sap i had..finished off another 2 Qts..

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Since it's not looking to good in the forcast, decided to boil down some of what was left in pan.
I'm at 9qts finished...possably 1 more still in pan.
Figuered averaging a ratio of 37:1

[3% Solution]

Don't hang it up yet Bill!!
Hang in there, the best is yet to come!!

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Not quiting yet...just reducing the amount of sap that will be sitting in the pan for who knows how long.

Do need to be all cleaned up by April 1st regaurdless of season

[PerryW]

Looks reasonably promising.

Bill,

Claremont NH Weather from Wunderground.com says:

Monday low will be 27
Tuesday Low :25
Wednesday Low: 27
Thursday Low: 27

http://www.wunderground.com/US/NH/Claremont.html

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Weather channel is predicting 29 tonight, but lows rest of the week in the mid to upper 30's.
Guess it all depends who forc ast ya beleive.

**** thing changes every hour it seems...lol
Gotta love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

I'm getting absolutely nothing!!! I have 3 1/2 gallons already made(early), but this weather is killing me!!!

[Bill'sSugarShack]

I give up..hauled home 20 gal sap..but took 5 days to get that from 14 taps.
Boiling it down as far as i can on wood tonight.
Fri I'll pull taps... Sat will finish it off on the turkey fryer.

[3% Solution]

Hey Bill don't toss it in yet next week is looking better!!

[jtthibodeau]

Well, at least it seems a lot of us are in a similar situation. To date, I'm at 20 percent of usual production and doubt there is much more to be had. No snow and no frost in the ground won't help but I'll hang in there until the, so called, bitter end.

Do you think this may affect the price? It will be interesting to watch the retail price of syrup on the shelves. I guess will have to wait and see how our Canadian brothers do with the rest of their season.

Good luck....

[PerryW]

I'm gonna stay plugged in and see what happens next week. My holes are only 3 weeks old so they shouldn't be dried up yet. I have plenty of wood still and even Commercial Syrup is worth something. I do suspect there's a high probability of Bud Run by next week though, even here in the North Country.

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Hey Bill don't toss it in yet next week is looking better!!

I've had enough...
If I wasn't going to be out of the state April 1-11th, then might of hung on.
Have alot to do before we leave as it is.

[Bill'sSugarShack]

Finished up the last of my 2010 season today.
Here are some of my numbers;
14 taps
25 days taped
114 gal of sap total

Works out to only 1/3 gal sap per tap per day :mad:

3 gal syrup made...38:1

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

I've got 40 taps and have 7 gallons syrup made. Still hoping to hit my goal(10 gallons. One more strong run should get it done.

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

It looks like I'm going to get my "one more strong run". Some taps are phlowing stronger than they have all season, while some aren't phlowing at all. I have 70 gallons oph sap now, so at this rate, I should get the 3 gallons needed to reach my 10 gallon goal.

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

This is it. I'm up early boiling. I have about 100 gallons sap and hot weather this weekend has kinda phorced my hand. This should get me to my goal oph 10 gallons.

[Keyes Hollow Gold]

Phinal tally. 9 3/4 gallons out oph 40 taps. It's a good thing I started early!!