Good to hear from you spud. How many taps you got in this year?
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Good to hear from you spud. How many taps you got in this year?
I have 3500 taps in my new woods. There is another 300 I will add for next season.
Spud
Sap is still running 100 gph. I should hit 7000 gallons by freeze up tonight. Sugar went down to 1.3%. This two day run was nice, it helped me find and fix most of my leaks.
Spud
I’ve gotten about 2 gallons of sap per tap over this run as well. Testing quite low at 1.2 and 1.0. Looking like we’ll have a nice long freeze over the next 2 weeks. Agree with spud; this was a good opportunity to go hunting for leaks. I was able to tighten up to 28 inches of vacuum over this run.
Still working on getting the taps in. Work was very busy last week, and I was not able to get free to work in the woods until well after dark. CDL was down today to install the pump control for the vacuum pump. It's a neat system and I look forward to not having to keep watch on temps and going to the sugarhouse at late hours to turn off the vacuum. The system can also reduce vacuum to levels to decrease ice issues at lower temps. We have a few deer and squirrel chews which were missed in December when new taps were put on or happened since then.
Mike
Turning off the pump for the next two weeks. Back to bitter winter
Some sap was dripping into the tank this afternoon but not enough for me to turn the pump on. I was able to wash my tank today and have it ready for the next run.
Spud
I got about 1000 gallons yesterday. Sap ran a little all night. Sugar has gone up to 1.7%.
Spud
A little over 1 gal of sap/tap at 1.5%
I think I'm going to tap for buckets this coming Monday or Tuesday, February 26 or 27. I was aiming for March 1, now adjusting slightly due to really warm temperatures in the 10 day forecast. However, I'm going to hold off maybe a week after that for the norway maples. My neighbor tapped norway about a week later than me last year and got 4 times the yield. I think the norways may heal faster.
Right now it feels like its just going to shoot up to 70 degrees any moment, but we really don't know, do we?