We tapped!

We tapped yesterday and went back tonight and emptied our 41 bags. We have almost 60 gallons of sap. It was still running at 7pm. We hope to try out our new evaporator tomorrow...Need to brick it first. Never bricked anything, so we will see.....

I wish you the best Sugar. Where are you located? I plan to tap 3rd week in Jan or so.

Spud

Good Luck Sugar, keep us posted how things are going.

Do you have a way to measure the sugar content of the sap? It would be interesting to see how they are running.

What? In Vermont? Third week of January, surely you mean 3rd week of February

he is probably on vac, so he has a longer window to tap, thats when i plan to tap all mine on vac

I will start tapping the 3rd week of January and hope to be done in a week. I am in hopes of a few warm days where the trees will run. Three days ago my big trees that I have fall tapped ran 1.5 gallons per tap on gravity. Had I put vacuum on those trees I would have gotten 3 gallons per tap. All it took was a day in the high 40s with the sun shining. I plan on having sap runs in Feb for sure.

Spud

I will start at the beginning of the second week in February. Only 6 weeks or so to go......... Lets all hope for a good year this year , 2 bad years in a row will hurt a little too much.

I plan to tap starting about Jan 7-10. I lose my college help Jan 16. This will be 2 weeks ahead of last year.

I am going to start tapping Jan. 20th. Same time i did last year. I will not miss a run.

I am in central Indiana. I too, have a few taps out. I am guessing a 3/4 gallon per day average on saks. yesterday was very sunny and we had a good run, today was a high of 39, but not much sun.
I will gather tomorrow afternoon and make some Christmas syrup.