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im not on tubing but if I can remember from other threads you need drops to a large mainline. if you use 5/16 all the time im sure on a good flow day it should handle 5-10 taps. what size of pail are you using to catch the sap in. 10 taps at a gallon a day average.....i think a brand new garbage can would work out... $10.00 with a lid.....thats a dolllar per tap...not bad. it would hold 3 days flow (30 gallons) if you have work interfearing..... you just need to get a 12 volt bilge pump for the ATV to pump it to your collection tank.

Anyone start Tapping around the Woodstock London area? Any predictions just looked at the weather suppose to go back down for a bit.

I tapped 80 last Sunday and boiled 190 gal of sap today and have another 150 to do tomorrow I'm in sarnia area.

I'll most likely tap right after this cold snap I should of tapped sooner but got busy.

I installed a new 3/16 line yesterday. No more buckets!!! Well just a few near the sugar shack for a traditional look.

I was the first customer last year to purchase the new 3/16 from Atkinson Maple and the first to try it. My experience was way above my expectations! I collected more than twice sap on the tubing with 50 taps than 50 buckets.

This system requires a good elevation and my shack is at the bottom of the of the hill. It works so great that high vacuum is created without any pump systems or electricity. It works so much that if I take the top tap off you can hear the suction.

This year I added another line and a larger evaporator. Now waiting for the next few weeks before tapping even if it was tempting yesterday winter is not over yet!!!

Yup suppose to get cold again, hope your season goes well I only have the ability for buckets road side trees don't offer much elevation :(

Anyone Tapping? I'm thinking of starting Friday I'm just to tempted with the warm weekend coming up.

Hey Mark. I was thinking about it because Fri-Sun looks enticing, but then next week's forecast is still below freezing. Unless the forecast for the next few weeks starts to show better temps, I'll just wait to tap until the last week of Feb. I don't want to get everything all set up, have a mini-boil this weekend and then have everything sitting there empty for two weeks.

Ya that's what I'm afraid of I'm so very tempted I just want to start lol just need to scratch my itch!

Mark, I took at look at Woodstock's forecast. Hold off. It's just about as bad as mine is. Make some pancakes with extra syrup tonight. That ought to help a bit. ;)

Tapped my trees two days ago. 16 taps on 5 trees on the lawn. Got 2 gallons of sap today.

Got home from work this afternoon and tapped 15 trees, almost all the trees were dripping before I could set the bucket on the hook.tomorrow is going to be a busy day of tapping, even if this is just a teaser the equipment will set up and ready.

I tapped 2 days ago and this morning all lines are full and the storage tank is 1/4 full. The big trees are still dormant. Looks like I am boiling this afternoon! On 3/16 gravity natural vacuum.

A guy one road over was out Tapping yesterday and I haven't yet, today is suppose to get up to 10 but then drop back down and late next week in the negative for a few days straight. I tap large road side trees so I plan to tap next Saturday. Hope the first week of March looks better!

60 taps put in today , by the look of all the pails at sun set should have 150-200 l of sap to start cooking tomorrow

put in 100 taps yesterday pull the drill out and sap was running out of the hole before you could get tap in had the one main line with 80+ taps running into 5 gallon pail it was full in a hour used that to rinse out storage tank
all of those trees are on a steep slope fell twice, cut my thumb weee let the season start I'm not ready I'm not ready



I'm not ready

I am sore tho

There are signs that sap is running; a bit early yet. . . .

125 taps all in place , got 300 l of sap from today's run, spring fever is starting to hit every one .

boiled for two days 5gal of finished syrup thought we were caught up just to find another 150 gal for tomorrow of of 80 taps

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• 60 taps Saturday
• 25 gallons sap Sunday, boiled off.

600 l of sap has been transformed into 17 of syrup so far this year. Weather forecast is calling for a week of cold weather, looks like more waiting

Got about 50 gallons of sap would of had more but the wind in my area was crazy and most of my trees are exposed so I had a good number of drop line pails blown off :(

Mark I know what you mean about the wind! It's been crazy out for two days straight. Without tying the jugs to the trees they would have been in Kansas by now. Get ready for the coming snowstorms and a four day rest from the sap. It's shovel time.

Don't like the look of the 2 week forecast. No freezing nights after the cold snap. Hoping we don't get freezing rain tonight. Going to be windy.

I Finnish with a small pan on wood stove

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Don't like the look of the 2 week forecast. No freezing nights after the cold snap. Hoping we don't get freezing rain tonight. Going to be windy.

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getting ice here very slippery out

I looked at our revised forecast for next week. I'm not liking what I'm seeing.

Ground is white with snow now next up


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Mostly got ice pellets. A tiny bit of freezing rain and a dusting of snow.

No freezing forecasted after Sunday night.

Still no freezing forecasted after Sunday night. Highs are getting warmer.

Two week forecast not looking good. . . .

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How's your trees running?

120 +or- gallons thru the night 100 online taps 7:00 am good stream


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Long range weather doesn't show any freezing wonder how many days before sugar content drops way off


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Hey someone watch my pans need to go pump up some more sap


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