Theron,
What forecast are you looking at? My 15 day may have 1or 2 sap days 3 at
the most. I have been twidling my thumbs for almost 2 weeks now since I have tapped. I sure hope your forecast is right!
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Theron,
What forecast are you looking at? My 15 day may have 1or 2 sap days 3 at
the most. I have been twidling my thumbs for almost 2 weeks now since I have tapped. I sure hope your forecast is right!
If I remember Theron works with of for a power company. Wouldn't put it past Matt and Theron to put electric heat in the sugarbush! All that late night work sounds kind of suspicous to me. That might explain his two drums syrup to everyone elses icicles! LOL
Mark
Dave and Mark- Im not making things up. If you look at accu for my area its calling as of today for Id say 9 hard run days in the next 15. It just changed today. Also weather channel is saying it too. Its going to warm on sat then I think itll run good sunday. Monday total gulley washer. Tuesday still run. Then cold few days then 40s and 50s. I think its going to be BIGSAP bigtime. Matts weather up there is reflecting the same higher temps. Dave- Your going to have to tell Jack if he wants to buy syrup hes going to have a class A CDL just to haul the stuff out of here. Theeeron
Theron, I just Checked your weather and you ain't crazy. I also checked ours and your temps are 3-5 degs warmer than mine. If the forecast holds we should have 8 sap days in the next 15. That is a big change from this AM when the were only 2.
My forcast also looks like 8-9 days run in next 15. Looks like I will be tapping the rest of mine on Sat. and Sun.. Then look out, here it comes. I put in for Wed afternoons off thru March (except week leading into Easter where I have Thurs-Monday off already) to help keep up with it. Might be just in time. Yaba Daba Do!!!!
You guys better get ready. Springs here and the sap is going to flow. Im going to bet a pic of it coming into the releaser monday and Ill put it on the photobucket. Dave- know you busted butt this year, hope it runs hard for you. Theeron
I hope it does also. If not my ___ is in a ringer. I need to make a minimum of 200 gal this year. sure hope it happens. and soon. I normally am a patient man but i am starting to lose my patience.
Down here in lower PA it looks like come Friday or Sat things will start flowing again.
I collected enough the past two days to fire up the evap to boil everything down to about 2 gals, so another day or two worth of sap and I will have my 1st gal of syrup.
Dennis- I think down there youve probly had a little better weather which is probly normal. We really havent had much good here yet. Just a couple runs kind of spread out but nothing great. I think the weather is changing this weekend. Sounds like you rig is working real good for you. Theeron
Just read that post about Ohio banning wood fires. That would put a crimp in the syrup industry.
Cold and blustery here tonight. I broke down and ordered a tank of Propane. With all this talk about giant SAP coming I figured I wouldn't have time to get to the house and keep the fire going:)
Hope things are well in southern syrup land. Maybe this weekend will be the break we are looking for.
Just got a call to ship some syrup out west to a customer so the folks are ready!
Our son Eric just left on his 'new' sled a 1990 Arctic Cat with 1000 miles. He has about a 9 mile ride home and is now enjoying the snow he would normally complain about:)
Off to stir things up in some other posts.
Have to get my photobucket working again. For some reason it was taking folks to the sign in page or something. I must have had the wrong URL? I have too many pictures anyway!
Chris