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We only got 4" down here today. Thats a good thing any more and i would be digging out my lines. we got about 6" yesterday too. Its never going to stop. more is forcasted for saturday and tuesday. Putting up tubing in my neibors will be fun. Luckly ther is only 40 or so taps in there. I did manage to bend the last peice of ss for the evaporator and ordered the ss bolt so I can put it back together.
i didn,t have to be a school bus driver today so i,am making some maple cream.i have two gallons of syrup boiled down and now it,s cooling.
delbert
Got about 1/2" of ice down here today. Haven't been able to got out to the woods yet to see what kind of damage if any there is.
The 2 corkscrew willows that we have in the front yard have quite a few broken branchs and limbs.
The wife told me that thru out the day there was ice falling along with what sounded like branches fall all day. Hope there wasn't to much damage out there.
Plan to hang tubing this weekend. Snow, ice, whatever, got to start some where! Supposed to be mild, in the low 30's
Some old, not as productive, taps will be dropped and some new trees will be put into the mix.
SM
Put out 1 bucket today!!!! Got about an inch of sap. the season is drawing nearer
We have already gathered about 500 gallons of sap off 91 taps. We are tapping another 12 this weekend to hit over 100 taps. We have gotten about 10 gallons of syrup. We have another run coming this weekend and then a short break for about 5 days.
Looks like no sap for the next 10 days for West Michigan....:cry: Great ten more day to get last min things done.
Everything is ready to go down here, just waiting for tapping weather. Next week looks too cold, so will probably shoot for first stage of tapping which is around 40% of taps next weekend and about 20% in another south bush within 7 to 10 days after that and remaining 40% on the north side bush around March 1st.
Headed to the Farm and Forest expo for the rest of the day. I'll be at the CO-OP insurance booth, but I will also be making regular trips to the maple booth for those maple jet shakes.
Dill- you be at Farm and Forest tomorrow? I'll be there at the NHTOA booth in the morning.