dug holes and stuck in 7 taps.....what the heck
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dug holes and stuck in 7 taps.....what the heck
14 more taps yesterday,...struck sap on a few trees...I'm pretty happy. I'll finish the rest of my bush this weekend.
My taps finally get here. Now I need to find some tap trees this weekend, which is going to be hard as my sister is getting married. I should be able to get the first 30 or so out at least.
sam
Still behind the 8 ball here, but, recovered enough from my sister's wedding to get about 30 taps out yesterday. I'll hang another 25 or so this evening after work. Temps look great so I should have plenty of sap to boil next weekend.
Before that happens I need to fab a new stack transition piece and redo my preheated. Oh yeah I'd also like to fab a new door, but, that's starting to look unlikely, unless I can get someone else to cut pallets for me.
I'm a also getting worried about the weather for next weekend as I boil outside and I'm looking to send moisture up and not to have it falling down.
Sam
looks like a great week weatherwise so I'm hoping I can pull enough to sweeten my pan this weekend.
If the weather does what it is supposed to you will be doing a lot more than sweetening your pans this weekend. I would be surprised if I didn't have a few hundred gallons to boil out of 50 taps.
Sam
Got to 48 taps tonight. I also found out I may well be surprised. Today was pretty warm and reasonably sunny, but, still very little sap. Is the snow covet keeping the roots too cold to get things flowing?
Sam
what I collected + what I left in the buckets I would guestimate 18 gallons over the 22 buckets. My big sugar maples haven't started yet.
Wow that's a ton of collecting to date, I have a 1/4 of sap if that, in my gallon milk containers.
I have a divided pan on a homemade 1/2 pint. I need 100 gallons just to START