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Same thing here. Once it thawed early afternoon the sap ran as hard as it ever does and I pulled in about 500 gal. before it froze up. Sugar snow I guess...
Last night we made almost 30 gal. AR from about 1500 gal. from the last couple days. Looks like we may get a bit of a break today....
yeah, I was surprised to see the sap running well here to... for a few hours. started here about 1-1:30 and was all done at 6. pulled in a good bit in that amount of time though. I'm starting to not be surprised when the sap runs at 33 degrees in crap weather!
I started my pump up yesterday when I left for work hoping it'd get up to 36ish degrees which for whatever reason seems like the magic number this year. At lunch time temp was 33 degrees so I didn't even go home and check it. Got home after work at 3:30 and to my surprise sap was dripping in but I had no vac at releaser. Quick check and one of my elbows was froze solid. After chiseling on it for 5-10min I was back up and running full vac and the sap was just puking in! Couldn't believe it. In the last two days I've had a little over 1500gal picked up. not bad for 515 taps. 425 of those gallons were off my new 3/16 set-up with 80 taps on it. No complaints here.
I am beginning to think I may have to switch to 3/16 fir my gravity lines next season
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Pulled in another 700 gal in about 5 hours yesterday. At about 50% of what we made last year. The vacuum pump has been on for weeks and looks like it may be on until april...
Its always interesting to compare output by the different regions of Vt- We're at a little better than 30%- sap barely ran for about 2 hours yesterday, it just wasn't quite happening.
EBG18T, I switched this year and am blown away by the difference. I had planned to put in 120 this season but am stopping at 60 (okay, maybe I'll throw in another 10-20 in the next week of low temps and low flows...it's hard to resist!) because I have so much more sap per tap than I'd expected frommy 5/16" days.
Got zero flow here yesterday. But between yesterday & this morning we got another 10 inch of snow.
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Are you just doing 3/16 drops? Or everything down to your main?Quote:
Originally Posted by alexa.holleran
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Alexa I am also being blown away by sap and I have 20 buckets that I never hung because mine 3/16 lines are running so hard. I am also trying to come up with a new pan that might boil faster before the big run next week.