Northeast Ohio?

I will be tapping this weekend.

Here in Lorain County I will be tapping most of my trees today, in preparation for when it warms up later this week...we may be in for a good run! Especially coming off a deep freeze like we had today, it looks promising.

Same here. Man did it get cold last night. Perfect start to the season. Lets just hope the warm up doesn't last too long. Tapping today for me!

Did anyone else see the long range freeze up after Sat. it looks like eight to ten days below freezing. Time to decide about getting this run or not . Really cold here, it might thaw by Thurs.

Yeah not sure about putting my sap sacks out for this run. I might wait for the next. I have all 532 of my vac trees tapped, though.

wed-sat should be a healthy run of light amber im sure...especially since there calling for a bit of rain mid week, thatll help thaw the roots.
i figure ill collect enough for a boil on sunday and then let the lines freeze till the next run. no harm no foul.

next week during the freeze ill just throw a halogen work light under the flue pan and call it a day.

itll be interesting to see how much we collect this week as this has been one cold winter.

I saw the long range after this warm up and I still can't understand why I put myself through this abuse. Last week one local channel was calling for 60's this coming weekend and the the nxt. day pulled the plug on that idea and lowered it to the 30's.haha! Anyways it might be smart to be tapped in because we may only get a "run" here and there and before you know it , it's april and time to mow the lawn. I tapped all 650 on tubing and 100 buckets , the other 250 buckets are gonna have to wait because I have no way of getting to where I have to go. Hopefully if we get a thaw I'll get them by the end of the week.

I was going to tap yesterday and did not. It's blowing like heck tonight and after seeing what's coming, I'm waiting until this weekend. This week looks like sap could be a no show with the "newer" cold temps and wind in the forecast.

We are watching you guys:)
Looks like Jason is ready for sap and several others too!
Huuuummmm what to do across the line?????
Regards,
Chris

started to tap in my tubing yesterday. should finish today and start to fix all them dare squirrel chews. using this warm up as a chance to seal up the vacuum before it really starts. snows pretty deep so we will see what happens