Well we called it done today. It was a short 11 days boiling .but we faired well anyway.
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Well we called it done today. It was a short 11 days boiling .but we faired well anyway.
Today we will begin pulling our taps in Charlotte. Overall, it has been a pretty good year. The weather wasn't too bad, we made a good amount of syrup, and no major equipment broke, including me. :)
With this crazy weather anyone tapped or planning to tap in Michigan yet? If you already did are you getting decent flow and is the sap any good? Forecast over the next week near Grand Rapids is freezing at night and upper 30's during the day so thinking i may but a few test taps out. I have that gold fever starting up :)
Going to wait a bit and watch Feb. temps
Probably best I'm just getting excited. :) I plan to put out a few testers tomorrow just to see if the flow starts but being the ground is still pretty frozen near me not expecting much. We shall see. :)
I am getting prepared. Looks to me like long range forecast will be late mid February or end of February. Just have to keep watching the weather. Gonna play with some 3/16 tubing this year and see how that goes. Never have done any tubing before.
I am in no way ready yet but here in Kalamazoo the forecast is for highs in the low to mid 30s with lows in the 20s for the next 10 days. By that time February is half gone. I think I will put out a couple test taps tonight to see what is going on.
My 9 taps are flowing great! 1.5-2 gallons per tap in 24hrs. I too am waiting until late Feb to add my additional 30-60 taps just not ready for constant boiling yet.
Starting to look good this last half of the month. I will start drilling end of the week.
Looks like Saturday in central lower. The extended forcast is really good looks like 5-6 weeks. Fingers crossed.