Deja vu

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Originally Posted by jmayerl

Your weather might be a bit different down there, but here it looks nothing like last year. Last year no real frost and decent snow cover. This year we have almost 5 feet of frost and avg snow. Going to take a lot of days in the 40's just to thaw them out.

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Kind of hard to believe the frost is down 5 feet already!? I think thats a bit of a stretch. I know its going down, we only have about 2 inches of snow on the ground over on the west side of the state and the above zero days have been pretty scarce since Christmas, but I really don't believe its down 5 feet....at least yet and for sure not in the woods. Another 2 solid weeks of this and it would be believable, but from what I hear temps are forecast to moderate.

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Originally Posted by markcasper

Kind of hard to believe the frost is down 5 feet already!? I think thats a bit of a stretch. I know its going down, we only have about 2 inches of snow on the ground over on the west side of the state and the above zero days have been pretty scarce since Christmas, but I really don't believe its down 5 feet....at least yet and for sure not in the woods. Another 2 solid weeks of this and it would be believable, but from what I hear temps are forecast to moderate.

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Well that's how deep the water line was that we had to dig up and repair because it was frozen, so you can believe whatever you want to I guess. We also just had our swamp woods logged out and they had no issues breaking though with skidders or log trucks so I just guess our weather on this side of the state has been more extreme than yours.

Here in Haubstadt, Gibson County Southwest Indiana. Cleaning buckets and working on my arch today. planning to set taps tomorrow. I figure it will take a few days to thaw out enough to start flowing. Looks like its supposed to be mostly dry for the week. It would be nice this year to not have to slop through the mud with full buckets.

Actually had one tree starting to drip. [ATTACH=CONFIG]17016[/ATTACH

Sorry it’s orientated wrong, wasn’t paying attention.

I got 32 taps up today on 3/16. Nothing was flowing. Caught me off-guard this early. I hadn't even ordered my new tubing and taps. Used some left-overs from last year. Had to split time between that and fixing my frozen water system. Next weekend will be a full work session. I've marked out 4-5 new runs; but don't have the tubing yet to tap them.

I'm up here in Laporte Co. just getting all my gear set up for the season, I plan on tapping between the last week of Jan. And 2nb week of Feb. watching the temps really close though.

I'm tapping today

I put in 116 taps yesterday and it was really flowing. I'm letting it run to clear the lines and then will start collecting after this next cold spell.

Another 1000' of 3/16 tubing showed up; so be seeing how many more runs I can get set up. I think I have trees for 5 more runs; but the 1000' won't cover that. However, I just realized a critical error in my planning. I should have purchased another 3/16 fitting tool. I'm going to have lots of helpers since the whole family is coming out; but they can't really do much if I only have one tool. Oh well, lesson learned; order another tool. I think I'll grab all my vice grips and see if I can jury rig semi-useful tool.

Funny, dsaw...Yesterday when I was putting in my taps I was wishing I had the family to help, lol! I was worn out by the time the sun went down. Maybe I'll pick up another tool in the hope that next year I tap on a day the kids don't have basketball practice or games...not likely though. Good luck this season!