Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

put out another 400 taps yeasterday all gravity, still more to do but have a lot of trees to cut off lines.

I redid my AOF tubes. when i first did them i must have had a hold of the dumb end of the tape measure the nozzles ended up around 8 to 10 inches below pan and still only did 30/35 gph. well this year they are where they are supposed to be. I had concentrate gauge set around .5/.7gpm and we ran out of sap in head tank. dialed in concentrate to 1gpm and was keeping up with it. So according to that Im boiling of 60 GPH.

I finished tapping last weekend, 550ish plus 36 aluminum buckets. Ran the pump, fixed a couple of leaks and pulled in 60 gallons to clean the lines. After dumping the first 60 gallons we have not gathered anything to speak of in the last week. Like everyone else I'm optimistic about the forecast this week, should run good starting tomorrow.

sounds like Joe is still out to lunch trouble is people will believe this hoky just like the BS going around the political world

Oh boy, awoke to 35* here this morning. I'm hoping the trees finally let go a little last night. Yesterday it didn't really do much just a trickle all day.
1204 replys on this thread and still going strong. I really enjoy reading what everyone in VT is up to. Thanks a lot fellow sugar makers. Hope it's a great week for everyone.

PM

Pulled in about 400 gal. since Sunday afternoon so nothing too stellar but I'll take it. Sugar at about 2.2%. No real freeze here last night and it looks like we may not get one until Friday night. If it gets as warm as predicted today I suspect the tanks will be filling more quickly than the last couple days.

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Originally Posted by PARKER MAPLE

Oh boy, awoke to 35* here this morning. I'm hoping the trees finally let go a little last night. Yesterday it didn't really do much just a trickle all day.
1204 replys on this thread and still going strong. I really enjoy reading what everyone in VT is up to. Thanks a lot fellow sugar makers. Hope it's a great week for everyone.

PM

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Me too... I turned the vacuum on about noon, but not much all day and night. You and I have similar weather.. Should be big today! A slight freeze maybe coming again on Friday night.

I am just dripping at 50 in shade. I looked at my red maples and buds are swelling with a couple lower lobes spreading.
I am at 1400 facing south.

Air temperature was plenty warm enough to run today, but I think the soil is frozen several inches deep. Not getting much sap flow yet....we'll see if it opens up overnight. Might take a little while yet to thaw, and may not get a stellar run until it freezes again to recharge the trees, but we'll see soon enough.

2.8 to 10.8 one pass

Slow here as well. Very slow yesterday and overnight, improved through the day, but nothing to feel good about. Vacuum good at 24.5. On the bright side, my sugar this year remains above my 1.7 average. This run is at 2%...