north east ohio 2012

any sap run today? lots of ice here this morning I didnt think it would run so didnt start the vac before i left this morning. i'm to lazy to go look i guess!!

I went out this morning at 7 and brought in a measley 15 gal thinking that if I didn't it would all "overheat " with the 45° temps we were supposed to see today. Well it didn't hit 40 anything so that was a waste. I've got 160 to boil off tomorrow though and if it does warm - as forescast - up we should see a good run, but likley the last good one.

We have been able to bottle 62.5 gallons plus 6 more waiting to bottle tonight. 275 taps plus 25 more for the past week. Taps on aluminum tree saver spiles are pretty much dried up but tubing and plastic bucket spouts are still running pretty good. Made grade A dark last night. Hope to make some more this weekend but looks like its all over after that.

Made 7 gallons of dark tonight. 2.0 going into the evaporator. Not much ran today, except the yard trees. Hoping for one more run tomorrow.

Boiled off 90 gal of the 160 I had in the tank today and pulled off 3 gallons of medium amber. Was running out of room in my 9"x9" single cone filter tank so I had to bring it all in a get it bottled. This gives us 10 for the year so far, but still a far cry from the 22 last year. Some of our trees started up in mid afternoon and are still running a bit - will have to see what the morning brings. Will hit it again tomorrow, collect what ever I canand boil down what we have left.
Can't wait to see what the weather man has in store for this week, although I don't put much stock in anything past 2 days now.

Nice your still making medium Johnallin, mine went dark last boil. I checked a few of the yard trees this morning and maybe a quarter bucket in some, not the overnight run I hoped for. The weather forecast doesn't look good either. I'm somewhere around 32 gallons compared to 50 last year.

Just checked and most trees are running. I'm guessing I've got 50-60 gallons out there. Still real clear and taste is good.

Finished the last batch today . Ended with 133 gal. Will pull spiles tomorrow. Tap holes are drying up. The shortest year for my tap holes ever, usually I get 6wks easy, not this year. Dark syrup today, not bad if you like dark, for me the first and lightest is the best, unless you are baking with it. It was a good year overall, I expected low sugar and got high sugar all season, Feb weather great March not so much. Hope everyone had a good year.

done here to. woods quit running at 1:30 so shut everything down.taps dried up so much for cv's got 350 gal sap made dark amber, total of 113 gal.this year. hope this dry sunny pattern remains so we can get in the fields before july this year:o

Gathered and boiled my last 200 gallons of sap. Sap today was a whopping 1.5 in one of my gathering tanks, it was all clear. I'll be pulling my taps soon to. My years total will be around 40, I still have to boil down whats left in the evaporator. I'm pretty happy with the season, made alot of light and medium. It's been nice chatting with everyone through out the season!