Tapped last week, 245 taps in on 12th and 14th. Collected 75 gallons on 14th but a lot of ice in the buckets. Hoping for a nice little run today/ tonight.
Good luck brother sappers.
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Tapped last week, 245 taps in on 12th and 14th. Collected 75 gallons on 14th but a lot of ice in the buckets. Hoping for a nice little run today/ tonight.
Good luck brother sappers.
I tapped Feb 11th, 170 on vacuum (mostly soft) and 130 on buckets (100 hard). Put about 500 gallons of sap in my 2x6 so far, bottled 5 gallons on sunday. Its been slow, wheres all the sap!
Collected 250 gallons of sap from 450 taps yesterday. 190 from vacuum and 60 from 100 buckets/bags. Wish I would have left my vac on Monday night. Sugar content only 1.5.
Collected 120 last night from 150 bags, best run in sometime, tapped Jan. 19. Weather sounds good starting Friday through next week.
Put 96 taps in on Saturday - will do the rest next weekend - and collected 85 gallons Tues morning. It ran like crazy after the front came through Mon night and they were just starting to slow down at noon when the temp started dropping again. Glad I got that in when I did, cause it sure looks cold until the weekend. Sugar content suprised me at 2.5%, we're normally less than that over here.
The new dump tank and pump system worked really slick and saved having to pour into the small 6" hole on the tanks.
Yesterday, I was able to collect about 75 gallons of sap from 115 taps. We had to break the skin of ice in every bucket. Luckily got most of it before it all froze. It yielded right at 2 gallons of syrup.
We got about 80 gal off of 350 taps have I mentioned my trees SUCK. The good news is the new evaporator is kicking butttttt got the preheater finished and installed still have some adjustments to make to it but we had 100 - 125 gal. Lit a fire at 7:00 and was in the shower at 10:15-10:30 we were pretty impressed and finally got the pans sweet and drawed off about a gal waaahooo finally seemed like it took forever!!
Jeff you had some impressive steam flying when I drove by after school the other day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffery G.
5 day forecast not as favorable as it looked two days ago. Temps barely above freezing except for Monday. Why even bother looking at the long range forecast it changes every half hour? 34 degrees here all night but trees are still too cold.
heus you are right about the long range best therapy is to quit looking, but the overall trend seems to be cold could this be a very short season? I keep thinking once it warms up it may stay warm
I was putting in drops yesterday late afternoon. Nothing was running. We could use some sunshine with this 30 ish degree temps! I agree the forecast changes every 24 hours!
Nothing but frozen buckets here in Cleveland. Would love a few more good runs. Thoughts on this being a shorter season?
Today will be another disappointing day since the weather changed again.
same here . nothing running.
Either Mother nature or the weather forecasters- whichever you want to blame- has duped us this year. 95% of us are all tapped in since last weekend.
we will be ok though.... here's that old study we've all read before .... http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc/tapping.pdf
im guessing a short season too ...
Staying positive. Just because its still cold on the last week of Feb doesnt mean we are in for a short season. Yeah Im going with that story.
i agree , i am just going with my gut, thats all .
think about it... aside from last year , most of my taps were put in within 7 days of march 1st ... so we are on somewhat of a normal schedule for the year.... just a lot of bluffing going on . :rolleyes: . thats ok , gives me more time to work on things. . . like getting a deicer to thaw the 150 gallon iceberg in my poly tank !
2010, 2011 I tapped Late in February and didnt pull taps until April. Last year really through us off. You never know what might happen. But at least were all ready! I finished my 100 extra drops today, so I think that puts me at 460-480? I don't know I lost track somehow.
well, I spent the day putting up a couple short mains for 2 sap ladders. going to finally come close to finishing that woods this year with all the extra time we are getting. tomorrow i hope to get the branch lines up on half of it. should be close to 75 more taps on the vac. also have 200+ buckets so far this year should put my tap count to 800 and something, (I better get christopherh to count them for me:lol:!!) just kidding. I have my eyes on 1000 silvermaples across the street for next year tested the sap last year it was anyware from 1.5-2.5%
Ha! Tom, I'll have plenty of time to do an official recount! I didn't realize we had that many silver maples here. How big are they?
No silvers growing wild around me. There are several yard trees though. I take that back there are some growing "wild" in my pasture. Seedlings from my yard trees.
Think Im going to spend some of the day counting my number of sugars and reds tapped. First time Ive made medium instead of light to begin the season but I attribute that to the higher number of reds that I have tapped this year. Also on vac for the first time.
chris, the trees are various sizes most are 2 tap vac trees and some three because of how they are split at the trunk.the population is very thick cause its an area of five acres on the map. im pretty shure i could get 1000 holes without trying hard and the cost of tubing it per tap would be cheap because of that. going to try to get up some pics of it and the sugar maple woods so u guys can see the difference. hues and chris, do u have any pics of the woods you are tapping
Tom, Here's a link to my facebook page. Lots of pictures on here. This is my first year for drops, next year I plan on a pipeline and vacuum. Right behind the sugarhouse is a nice slope good for 500+ taps, all reds though. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pleasa...2466784?ref=hl
Tom there are a couple pics of our woods on my website:
http://www.rootsmaplesyrup.com
nice guys Ill try to get some up of the silver maple patch if i get a chance this week. finished one ladder and have 31 taps on it sap was dripping out of a couple fresh holes today for a few minuts. going to be more than the seventy five i thought when its all done
We've been dry for about a week here in Cleveland. Sun's out... hoping for a decent run today. Staying optimistic. Tapped on Feb. 10th... too early, perhaps?
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was able to get a couple shots this morning before i started to get working on the other ladder. middle 3 pics are of the silver bush for next year the others are the sugarmaple woods. sap is running slow today
Vac is running decent as we speak (6:40 pm). Hung 25 more sap sacks today to get my tap count to 517. Some of my buckets/bags facing the sun were running ok this afternoon. Hoping for a good sap day tomorrow
Nice pictures Tom . .. . . . Trees on the fields edge were running pretty good this afternoon, hopefully the next couple of days they'll keep running.
my buckets were drippin quite a bit early afternoon. . . lines are moving too, but many are frozen .
Brrrr its a cold rain at this time but the vacuum taps are flowing right now.
Nice work Ohio neighbors! Sap should be flowing as we are getting some slushy rain at 7:00 p.m.. I will gather and try to boil in the morning. My guess is the run will be pretty good overnight.
Regards,
Chris from PA
Im heading to the woods now to boil.
Jason,
How much sap do you have for that big rig?
Regards,
Chris
I boiled around 200 gal last night and am boiling all night tonight I think. Have collected about 280 gallons on buckets and over 600 on vac since last night. Its still running strong as we speak.
snagged 160 gallons from last night until today. nice little run . . .
Heus, that is great you are getting big sap. It's very slow over here. Have you calculated you GPH yet?
Gary I haven't done the calculations yet. I know that with good wood im probably around 85gph. Yes i know this can do much better. I need a preheater next year. I should be able to get over 100 gph.
hues, you had some serious sap from those trees for the weather, we got just over a gallon a tap by 4 pm 600 on vac @ 25'' and 160 buckets
so almost 900 gal of 2.4% to boil today.
going to dial in the new cyclone arch!!!
I had a pretty good sap run yesterday of just under 1 gallon per tap. I had 100 gallons per 115 taps. Monday and Tuesday I only collected 20 gallons a day.
so the cyclone arch claimed its first victim. was watching the fire through the window and all of a suddon sap started to run down the break of the back syrup pan ( cross flow) like no tommorrow. i never seen anything like it ,everything running smooth then it all breaks loose for no reason . I was even running 2.5 inches in the pans just to be safe. it did sugar over within a few minuts though and i did manage to get it all boiled in. made over 20 gal in 6 hours