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I have out a total of 100 aluminum pails out so far. I checked out the ones that were out for 2 days and anywhere from a couple of table spoons to a quart in them. Even if I had out all 400 I would not have been enough to collect. The snow is still way to deep to think of collecting anyway. I've got to get my wife to get our web site up and running for this year. Once it's up and running check it out at blsugarbush@yahoo.com
That's pretty slow. Maybe not worth tapping till next week.
Give it more time to thaw out ground.
Put out another 75 taps & pails today(175 total so far). Ones that were out for 3 days ranged from 1 cup to 3/4ths of a pail 2.5 gal pails. We haven't checked sugar content but it doesn't matter because we can't collect till the snow goes down. We can tap with snow shoes but can't collect.
My test buckets are at 1/4 - 1/3 full. Also 2.5 gal. size. Its slowly beginning to happen.
At 8:30AM this mornings I put in 4 taps. Checked Pails at 5pm
Tonight and sap that did flow didn't even cover bottom of pail.
Guess a little early yet. Maybe tap next weekend.
I put out 2 test taps yesterday and another 8 today. Absolutely nothing. No drops from the tap holes, nothing in the bags. Snow is about knee deep and everything still seems pretty well frozen. I plan to set the rest of my taps next weekend and see what happens after that.
Put out another 125 with 100 to go. We will wait till some of the snow goes down to get the rest out. The wife has the web site up and running, so if anyone wants to check out what we're up to check it out.
Anything happening for you Brad?
We tapped our tubing last week. Not much happening, but we had about 160 gal of sap in the tank before everything froze up. We'll probably start tapping the bags this weekend, or early next week. For now, we've just been beating down paths to the trees with snowshoes. It's tough going with 2-3 feet of snow in the woods, and deeper drifts in some places.
Well my test buckets from early last week are only 1/4 - 1/2 full. How's your sap flow?