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I pulled my taps last Wednesday. Had to go out of town this past weekend and now the walleye bite is going to pick up.
For the poor weather I dealt with I got a little over 6 gallons with a small batch left to finish off. Should end up with about 7 gallons or so.
More than enough for us this year. Bring on the walleyes now.
I still haven't even fired the evaporator yet. We have more snow today than at any time this winter. Hopefully will be able to get at least a few gallons this week?????https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8a969d3740.jpg
Need to get back at it! Less than 5 gal to boil off for 2nd boil (130g). Have 94 gal to get boiling brcause Fishman is right - it's going to get busy!
Finished up my last boil today in 70+ degree weather. Ended up the year with 13 gallons plus a gallon of sugar. Had times of 7-8 days with no sap. Not good overall but had a lot of fun with friends and family. Till next year.
This appleknocker had a UP experience this weekend that i'm sure many of you can relate to. i'm trying to keep my camp road open so i can tap in a month or so. i'm 2 miles off of blacktop and it's getting challenging in a coupla places. sugar snow snow on top of ice isn't helping. anyway i stuck my truck n plow going up a hill. called a neighbor n he pulled me out. i closed up camp n started home. my neighbor was backing up to a turnaround n slide off the road by a swamp. i pulled him out 4 or 5 times but each time he backed out he slide off the road again. then i stuck my truck trying to get him out. luckily caught another neighbor (everybody on our road was at camp shoveling their roofs) and this one has a 1 ton truck n 9'2" plow. took some time and some yooper engineering but he got us out. we paid him for his efforts and hired him to widen out our road so that we can have a sugar season this year. got home at midnight. btw, just because u have a tab on ur boots that says "gortex" it doesn't guarantee that ur boots are waterproof!
mark
i see 9-15" predicted for our area again this week... wonderful
Got a buddy who's thinking of tapping a lil north of foster city next week... temps look like there will be sappage the 1st weekend of march. i'm gonna run up to waucedah with the plow this week and start getting some bags ready to hang. will keep an eye and see if the predicted temps are close to accurate. if so i may tap in a week or so. problem with early tapping is the sap freezing solid in the barrels and making the boiling harder than it needs to be. anyway, it won't be long now.
So with the warm weather my friend wound up tapping yesterday. by the time he got everything organized he started tapping at 3pm. at sunset he hopped in the utv and checked on his bags. they all had sap; some had 1\2 gallon. warm temps still in the forecast so i'm thinking i will tap as soon as i can get up to the bush.
We tapped on Saturday, 162 buckets hanging. Sunday we prepared a new ridge for 3/16” gravity pipeline, had to trim beech saplings out of the way, discovered there is a lot more snow in the woods than we thought, 16-18”, we will get the tubing hung during the week and then wait for the run! The pipeline is new for us as the area around the sugar shack is fairly flat, we are excited to give this gravity suction a try!
Good luck sugar makers.
Did you guys make it out this weekend?
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