Put out about a third(33) of my taps today, buckets, bags, and 5/16 tubing. Old maples around the house were slightly running.
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Put out about a third(33) of my taps today, buckets, bags, and 5/16 tubing. Old maples around the house were slightly running.
Started tapping today. Got 26 taps in. Some had really good flow. Next few days look crappy, but after that should be money.
Started hanging buckets today at my 10 year old's son's insistence. (I haven't hung buckets in a couple years.)
We have a deal that he's very involved in the sugaring this year and will share in the profits.
We'll see how he feels about buckets come April when it comes time to clean them! :lol:
Look for 150 buckets and lids in the "For Sale" section next year!
I'm usually late to tap compared to most of you. I'm on buckets. But I saw a day in mid 40s and decided to tap yesterday Feb 15. I didn't even check the buckets today to see if it was worth it! Prob should have held off another week, but oh well. I have a big project coming up so need to get maple started and cleaned up early this year.
I started tapping 2 days ago. I was going to this past weekend but the weather didn't look great for the week then all of a sudden Monday it changed to getting 40's yesterday SMH.
I don't have many (15-20 and almost all Red's :( ) so I have been doing a couple when I get home from work. Ill probably get the rest done tonight, and when I see my neighbor ask if I can tap his 3 this year.
Hoping to have better luck this year than last year!
And as far as kid's... My 4 year old has been asking me daily, when can we start boiling. She isn't as interested in the tapping itself, so I have been doing that without her. But the last couple I am going to have her come out and at least hand me stuff. Her favorite part is going to all the buckets and collecting it into 1 bucket and seeing how much we can get. She actually just finished what we made last year about 2 weeks ago. It KILLED me to buy some in the store for her waffles in the morning lol
The 22nd i'll be drilling holes - pretty tough walking right now, the crust on the old snow, the new powder over the old ice - Can't melt fast enough to suit me.
Yes, it will be snowshoes for me this weekend. Plan on tapping around 40 reds, as all I have are reds on my property.
sounds like we all went in at about the same time. I put in about 60 taps on tubing in Durham on Sunday the 14th, had a little run sunday and a good run overnight into monday before it froze back up on us. Collected 60 gallons, set up the RO on Tuesday and sent it through, plan to sweeten the pan tomorrow morning, then throw some of the first buckets up in Somers if i have time. Next week looks like better weather!
Tapped and hung about 75 buckets today in Portland. Should be a good run this coming week as the weather is supposed to moderate. Should be a good run over the next couple of weeks. Will keep a close eye on both daytime and nighttime temps. I suspect that we are going from too cold to too mild fairly quickly so I'm going to collect all I can over the next couple of weeks. Made about 14 gallons on 80 taps for the 2020 season and I hope to do the same this year.
8 degrees here in Kent this morning - May start tomorrow, Tuesday for sure.